Diary of escape a pregnant woman via RSF

On the month of May, Amir went on a dangerous journey through one of Sudan’s most active zones.

Fast Support forces (RSF) have just seized the city where it lived – Ann Nahud in Western Cordophane.

The road was dangerous, but she felt she had no choice. She was pregnant for seven months.

“There were no hospitals, no pharmacies,” she said, “I was afraid, if I stayed longer, I would not find any cars that were heading. The journey has almost no: incredibly difficult and extremely expensive.”

The civil war between the Sudanese military and RSF for more than two years of brutal civilian residents. Now the front line has moved to the southern region of Cordophan through which Amir traveled.

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As Air escaped, she recorded a sound diary that was available to the BBC Global Group Avaaz. We also reached her by phone in the Uganda Kamanda capital, where she was waiting to deliver her child.

From the very beginning of the trip there were problems.

RSF and its allies controlled all the transport, Air said.

When they and their husband sat down in a truck to get her out of Anne Nahaud, between the young man who rented a vehicle for his family, and the RSF driver, who sold more seats to other passengers.

“The driver immediately pulled a gun and threatened to shoot a young man who rented a truck. Everyone prayed with him, including his RSF companion,” Air said.

“Grandma and mother of the boy cried and kept the driver’s feet, asking him not to shoot. We have frozen the passengers with fear.”

For a good reason.

“I felt that when he decided to shoot, he shoots at many people, not just one,” she told me later. “Because he was drunk and smoked marijuana.”

In the end, the driver postponed a gun, but the young man stayed behind Anne Nahud.

The overloaded truck headed for an uneven road full of potholes and cross -streams gained luggage and 70 or 80 people, the mothers cling to everything they could grab one hand and trying to keep children safe.

“I was constantly scared,” Air said. “I kept praying that the baby would not come – I just hope everything will be fine.”

In the end, travelers reached El Fules, the capital of Western Cordophan. But Amir did not want to stay there for longer than necessary, because the army closed.

“I did not know what would happen when the army reached El Fula,” she recorded in her sound diary, “especially since the soldiers began to aim for some ethnic groups who, in their opinion, were associated with RSF, like Baggar and Riga.

“My husband comes from one of these groups, although he has nothing to do with RSF. He is a public sector worker and studied the law – but now it doesn’t matter. People are directed only from his ethnicity.”

The Sudanese Armed Forces and their union militias are accused of having gone after civilians suspected of cooperating with RSF in the territory they seize is that the UN called accurate reports of extrajudicial killings.

Earlier, the military convicted “individual” violations committed by some soldiers when accused of human rights violations.

Army General Abdel Fatah al-Burhan appointed the commission earlier this year to investigate allegedly abuse during the sweeping of the military through the Central Sudan.

Cordophan consisting of three states has now become the main battlefield. The region is crucial for the Sudan war as a place of key oil fields and a strategic center of major transport routes.

The involvement of other militias along with RSF, especially powerful SPLM-N, has strengthened violence and increased a serious humanitarian crisis, which made it almost impossible for help groups.

After leaving El Fuula, it took Amir for three days and several vehicles changes to get to the border with South Sudan and security. There were endless obstacles.

“RSF drivers worked according to their mood,” she said.

“They decided to ride where they were sitting and how much they paid. There was no standard pricing – you had to survive it. These men were armed and violence came to them easily.”

Every 20 minutes or so that travelers were stopped at RSF checkpoints and forced to pay there, she said.

This is despite the fact that they were accompanied by the accompanying RSF, which they also paid.

The food was very expensive, the water was little.

In one village, El Hujest, travelers managed to connect to the Internet, on the RSF Starlink device. But even it had a danger.

“Once you are back on the Internet, you should be careful,” Air said. “If Men RSF hear you – for example, when you watch the army video or play the army ring or the song, or even just mention the fast support for the conversation – they will arrest you.”

The road conditions were terrible, and the vehicles continued to collapse – three times during the journey.

The lowest moment of Amir came when the tire burst when she was traveling through the forest of acacia, leaving passengers without water. People who traveled said they had no extra space.

“I swear by God, I felt that I would never reached another place that I will die here,” she told me.

“I refused. I only had a blanket, so I took it, lay down and slept on the ground.

“That day I really felt it would be my end right there.”

But it was not the end.

Amir and her husband finally managed to ride a pick-up, which transported the cargo from the vegetables.

The next day, they reached Abii, on the border, but the journey there slowed down and floods.

At this point, they were on a vehicle loaded with fuel barrels that continued to stay.

“The car will immerse yourself again and again,” says Amir.

“Our clothes were imbued with. Our bags already spoiled by dust and warmth were flooded.

“We freezed and just prayed for safety.”

In the end, she got to the capital of South Sudan, Juba – about 1300 km (810 miles) south of Anne -Naohud – where they got on the bus to the Uganda capital.

Now that she has reached security, relief is bitter.

Amir is desperately worried about the members of the family left behind, sad and anxious when she is preparing to give birth.

“I am very afraid of the feeling of birth because this is my first time, my first baby, and I will not have a mom with me,” she says.

“It will just be my friend and my husband. I don’t know … It’s so many things so disorganized that it’s so preferable.”

Amiri is a female law and a pro-democratic activist who took assistance in the war, because of the fact that it is known as the emergency response halls.

She said her group was suspicious, she said. Some members were arrested.

“I was afraid of the army and military intelligence,” she told me. “They will arrest young people and keep them detained.

“But when the fast support forces came, they weren’t better. They robbed they raped. They do no less than what the army does. They are all the same.”

Despite extensive evidence of robbery and rape charges, RSF also states that it is not aimed at civilians. He dismissed allegations of ethnic purification, describing violence as tribal conflicts.

Both sides denied war crimes.

The task for Amir now – and joy – becomes a mother.

But there is always a question whether she will be able to return to Sudan with her child.

“I hope the Sudan’s situation will improve,” she says. “It will not be the same security as before, and it will not be the same people, not the same places – everything will change.

“But if the war stops, then there will be some security. People will not just die by accident as it is now.”