Tura or Tails Or are there locks on their hearts

A number of colleagues and friends shared with me horrific and painful videos of the charred bodies of hundreds of children, women, and the elderly, following the airstrike carried out by the Sudanese Armed Forces’ warplanes on the (Tura) Market, northwest of (Mellit), on Monday. The initial toll reported the loss of more than (400) innocent lives and hundreds of injuries.

In the blink of an eye, the market was transformed into a ruin after the military aircraft emptied its load of barrel bombs. In one of the videos, an individual is speaking about more than (1,500) casualties, and the market, once teeming with vendors and shoppers, was reduced to ashes. Casualty figures are still conflicting; however, the inevitable truth remains, there are hundreds of casualties.

The area of (Tura) isn’t one of the Arab tribal areas that the military aircrafts systematically target, referring to them as social incubators of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), and shedding the residents’ blood without distinction between children or women.

This massacre is considered the worst since the Sudanese Army’s airstrikes on Al-Koma Market on the 4th of October, last year, which resulted in the death of (480) people and seriously injuring more than (200) others. Amongst the civilian victims were children, young men and women, and the elderly. The aforementioned wasn’t the only massacre in Al-Koma, as (120) airstrikes were carried out there since the war broke out.

The Islamic Movement’s Army and Ali Karti’s warplanes continue to mercilessly target civilians.

Someone once asked me, “Professor, why don’t you discuss the horrific crimes committed by the Sudanese Army’s airstrikes against thousands of civilians, including children and women, targeting markets and hospitals? Why do you limit your words to condemning the violations and war crimes in general?”

I swiftly responded: “I understand what you are trying to convey and I will tell you more, the systematic crimes carried out by the Sudanese Army’s military aircraft against civilians are subject to a blackout in the local and foreign media. Despite the continuous documentation of these violations and the availability of videos documenting the bombing, channels concerned with Sudanese affairs as well as their pages on various social media platforms, fail to report about it. If they do, they manipulate and distort the information. In addition, numerous bodies and civil society organizations are also very blatant in their participation in the blackout. I mentioned -as an example, not limiting to- the page of the Sudan Doctors Syndicate – the Preliminary Committee and how their bias can be noted in an ugly and shameful way, as they focus on the violations carried out by one party. I urged him to note how many statements about the war crimes committed by the Sudanese Army’s warplanes against thousands of civilians are published on a daily basis, you will only find a timid mention every now and then while the bombing of civilians continues on a daily and systematic basis.”