Al Burhan’s refutal of “Doctors’ Network” reports, reveals the doctors’ role in the war
The Commander-in-Chief of the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan was rather adamant in his act of refuting the reports issued by the “Sudanese Doctors’ Network,” as he shared remarks about what he described as the role of some doctors who were serving in areas controlled by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) during the war in the capital, Khartoum.
According to statements attributed to Al-Burhan, the aforementioned doctors “played a crucial role, as instruments of war.” Furthermore, they carried out “duties such as espionage, providing coordinates, and reporting on collaborators.” Adding that he described such contributions as “informing against/reporting,” however, he was quick to justify it and attribute such behavior to “ensuring victories.”
Additionally, Al-Burhan’s statements included references to casualties that occurred as a result of providing the afore referenced information, and to its use in “massacres committed by the RSF in Khartoum,” and that doctors “were responsible for preparing the blacklists for liquidation.” Moreover, Al-Burhan’s statements further included that doctors were killed in Wad Medani “because their colleagues reported them for refusing to finish off the wounded,” and that such behavior occurred in southern Khartoum and Al-Jazeera state.
The statements also relayed previously circulated allegations that some doctors had “performed unnecessary amputations on wounded RSF soldiers, injected them with hepatitis-contaminated blood, or used incompatible blood types in transfusions,” which naturally caused their untimely deaths. The statements further alleged that “those in white coats broke their oath and were executing the wounded.”
The statements concluded by asserting that “there are no innocents or civilians in this war,” and that “the Sudanese Doctors’ Committee, the Sudanese Doctors’ Union, and other such organizations are no more than fronts for the Intelligence Service.”
