Three months after the fall of El-Fasher to General Hemedti's Rapid Support Forces (RSF), the scale of the massacres perpetrated in Darfur is becoming clear. Between satellite imagery and survivor accounts, evidence of mass executions is mounting.

A forced gravedigger's daily life

Ibrahim, 63, is one of those who experienced hell firsthand. Captured on October 26, 2025, while attempting to escape, he is being held in the former children's hospital, now converted into a prison. His daily life becomes macabre: collecting the dead bodies that litter the city.

1. The modus operandi: Teams of 10 to 50 prisoners loaded the bodies into tarpaulins, then into trucks.
2. The victims: Ibrahim reports having buried men, but also many women and children.
3. The pace: Up to 400 bodies a day were thrown into mass graves, before being covered over by bulldozers.

"It was like a scene from the Last Judgment," he says, describing streets so cluttered with corpses that paramilitary vehicles sometimes drove over human remains.

Proof through images and on-the-ground evidence

Researchers at Yale University confirm this account. Through the analysis of satellite images, they have identified more than 130 mass graves in and around the city. The FSR's objective seems clear: to erase the evidence of large-scale massacres.

The main sites identified by the survivors:

1. 500 meters east of Shalla prison.
2. Near the Garni road and the Melit gate.
3. Within the grounds of the UNICEF hospital and the Saudi Hospital.

Freedom at a high price

Ibrahim's ordeal ended after 22 days, not out of compassion, but for a ransom. His family had to pay $10,000 to secure his release.

For the others, the situation was much bleaker:

1. Executions: Those whose relatives did not pay were shot.
2. Sanitary conditions: Many succumbed to dehydration or diseases related to unsafe water.

Towards international justice?

Ibrahim's testimony was collected by the Darfur Emergency Committee . This Sudanese diaspora organization documents these crimes in the hope of one day bringing them to international justice.

Altahir Hashim, a volunteer on the ground, confirms that Ibrahim's story is not isolated: about thirty other survivors describe, in a consistent manner, the same systematization of horror and the location of the same mass graves.