UN: Bodies of 87 people killed in Sudan are in mass grave

The United Nations (UN) reported that the bodies of 87 people killed by the Rapid Support Forces (HDK) paramilitary force in the West Darfur state of Sudan were buried in a mass grave.

According to information obtained from reliable sources by the UN Human Rights Council, the local population was forced to bury the bodies of 87 people, including members of the Masalit tribe, in a mass grave near the town of Cuneyna, in western Darfur, the UN said. in a sentence.

It was claimed that 87 people in the mass grave were killed by the HDK in the town of Cuneyne from 13 to 21 June.

The bodies of 37 murdered people were claimed to have been buried on June 20 and 50 on June 21 in a mass grave approximately one meter deep. Among the dead were 7 women and 7 children.

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, called on the NGO and other parties to the conflict to allow and facilitate the exhumation of corpses without discrimination, including ethnicity, as required by international law.

Condemning the killing of civilians, Türk noted that a prompt, thorough and independent investigation into the incident must be carried out and those responsible must be held accountable. (AA)