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>> A new report funded by the
state department paints a dire
picture of the humanitarian
situation in darfur were in
western Sudan.
Nearly five months ago, the
Sudanese military and insurgent
rapid support forces started
fighting each other for power.
The U.N. Says at least 4000
people have died.
Violence quickly spilled into
Dara for where elements of the
our sf were accused of genocide
20 years ago.
As Nick schifrin reports,
history appears to be repeating
itself.
>> The aftermath of airstrikes,
the echo of gunfire and the
frightening flames of civil war
have engulfed sedans cities.
-- Sudan cities.
In the capital a massive fire
burned in their report.
There is no safety for the
living and no dignity for the
dead.
Civilians are dying so quickly
graves are left unmarked.
Now the power struggle between
Sudan's armed forces and the
rapid support forces has
reignited ethnic conflict in
Dara four, a western region the
size of Spain.
>> It is ethnic cleansing.
It is ethnic cleansing that
right now is occurring.
>> Nathaniel Raymond is the
executive director of the
humanitarian research lab at the
Yale school of public health.
His team works on the state
department funded Sudan conflict
observatory to expose the
atrocities of war that might
otherwise go unreported.
>> Cell phone connectivity and
internet connectivity has been
knocked out.
In some cases intentionally as
we documented by the our sf.
So our work is unfortunately the
only game in town in many cases
to be able to corroborate what
is happening.
That is done through a
combination of satellite
imagery, open-source reporting
and thermal sensors from nasa.
>> Their new report from door
fours largest city shows damage
to a market, a mosque, a
military hospital and a prison.
Last week, a local journalist
post these -- these photos of
what appears to basically
incident where dozens died.
We spoke to one of the victims
who survived.
She has now fled to east darfur.
>> A little girl.
Her face was split down the
middle.
And neighbor's head was severed.
I started screaming when I saw
my aunt's head head exploded.
I kept screaming for help.
My aunt's family has been torn
apart.
I passed out.
That is the only thing I
remember.
No one came to help.
No government.
The military.
No rapid support forces.
Absolutely no one came.
>> We have seen an alleged
massacre of almost 30 people
including from five families at
the table bridge where they were
killed by a stray missile.
So the situation is both forces
are now moving into civilian
areas occupying civilian homes
and firing at each other at
close proximity.
In the middle of this battle are
civilians.
>> You believe exposing what is
happening can protect the people
on the ground?
>> At this point, we are
conducting early warning that
turns into autopsies.
We are trying to warn and when
the warning goes unheeded we are
trying to document the
destruction of entire
communities.
>> In the 2000's government
backed militias in darfur really
crushed an uprising and killed
hundreds of thousands of
non-arabs.
It gave birth to the our sf.
-- The rsf which is behind the
new violence in darfur.
>> We are concerned it is a
preview of what happens next.
We are talking hundreds of
thousands of people.
The most vulnerable people on
the planet who have really at
this point no protection force
between them and rsf which has
clearly shown that their intent
is to liquidate prioritizing men
that also with sexual
gender-based violence against
women to liquidate non-arab
people in darfur.
>> The violence has targeted
Sudan's healers.
As many as three quarters of
health care facilities have been
destroyed.
This doctor is president of the
Sudanese American physicians
association.
>> The situation in terms of
health care is in near complete
collapse.
The majority of hospitals and
health care centers out of
service.
In the capital were most of the
health care services are
concentrated to begin with, and
that is also the case in the
west of the country.
What that means is people who
get injured as a result of the
war, they don't get the care
they need.
Those who get other medical
conditions, heart attacks or
need diabetes to be managed, a
woman wants to deliver, a kid
who needs vaccination, will
these services are mostly
nonfunctional now.
In Sudanese social media groups
people are changing tips on how
you can deliver a woman at home.
It is in very bad situation.
>> The international community
has said it is getting supplies
into the country.
More today than they were a few
months ago but are the supplies
reaching hospitals?
Are they reaching the people who
need them?
>> The situation has improved
but it continues to be terrible
in the sense there is a mismatch
between what is delivered to
port Sudan which is the keyport
of the country and what is
actually delivered to the end
user and this is due to safety
reasons.
It is not safe to move stuff
around most of the country and
also due to a nonfunctional
government that is incapable of
delivering aid to those who need
it most.
I also think the international
aid agency has been reluctant
for so many reasons to work with
the local community.
>> Let's assume into Dara four.
You are opening up a new clinic
on the border between west
darfur and Chad.
What is the humanitarian
situation?
>> Hundreds of thousands have
left darfur and went to Chad.
The situation is particularly
tough because it has taken this
ethnic flavor to it.
It is kind of tragic in the
sense it was formed originally
to have suppressed -- in darfur
and now it turns against the
army.
The rsf was trained not to
respect human rights and to use
sexual violence as well.
That has been really seen mostly
in darfur where there are
credible reports that there has
been killing based on ethnicity.
There has been indiscriminate
killing of civilians.
The capital of west darfur, you
basically have no health care
services.
>>>> You mention sexual
violence.
Is that one of the boot -- one
of the mot brutal
aspects of the conflict?
>> There were reports of women
being sold.
>> We have been interviewing
people in darfur and they
describe these harrowing scenes.
The wounded not being able to
reach the hospitals and dying on
the way.
Exactly what you said before.
People who need routine medical
care simply unable to get it and
dying for that reason.
Overall the level of crisis
seems it is getting worse.
>> Absolutely it is getting
worse.
You have the west of darfur, no
health care services.
Now the violence has spread to
south darfur.
It is I think in darfur
particularly the worst is yet to
come because the social fabric
-- in Khartoum, you have the
army fighting.
In darfur we are seeing evidence
that is spreading to the larger
society.
Ethnic tensions in darfur that
can open the door to widespread
violence.
>> There are about to be as many
as 5 million people displaced.
How much of a threat is that
massive number to the country
and to the region?
>> First of all this is creating
a difficult security situation
within Sudan itself.
It is putting pressure on all
the services and cities not
equipped to deal with these
large numbers.
Overall I think if the war
escalates and we see people
leaving Sudan, the country
disintegrates.
It is going to have a huge
impact across the continent
which is already suffering a lot
from multiple oars.
-- From multiple wars.
>> Thank you very much.
>> Thanks for having me.
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