By On April 27, 2025, the world witnessed a horrifying atrocity unfold in southwest Omdurman, Sudan — an atrocity that should have galvanized international outrage but instead has been met with a deafening silence from the international community and mainstream media. The Rapid Support Forces (RSF), a paramilitary group that has long terrorized the Sudanese population, orchestrated a brutal massacre of civilians — including men, children, and the elderly — in broad daylight. To add further horror to their crimes, they live-streamed the killings, forcing the world to confront their brutality in real time.
At the same time, the RSF escalated their campaign of terror against the Sudanese people by launching systematic drone attacks on critical civilian infrastructure across the country, with a particular focus on River Nile State. Power stations, hospitals, and water stations — lifelines for an already suffering population — were ruthlessly targeted, crippling basic services for millions.
This article examines in detail the atrocities committed, the growing pattern of RSF crimes against humanity, the alarming silence of the global community, and the hidden hands fueling the devastation of Sudan in a modern-day recolonization effort.
A Planned Massacre: Omdurman, April 27, 2025
On Saturday, April 27, the RSF descended upon several neighborhoods in the southwest of Omdurman, an area already battered by months of conflict and displacement. Eyewitnesses report that RSF fighters went door-to-door, rounding up all the males in the area, regardless of age. Fathers, teenage boys, young children, and elderly men — none were spared.
After gathering them in an open area, RSF forces systematically executed the civilians — shooting them at close range, taunting them, and laughing while broadcasting their crimes live on social media platforms. Families who tried to intervene or plead for mercy were assaulted and, in some cases, killed as well.
This was not a chaotic act of battlefield violence — it was a deliberate, organized massacre designed to terrorize the entire population. It was intended as a brutal message: total domination through fear.
It is impossible to watch these scenes and not conclude that the RSF committed crimes against humanity — willfully targeting civilians, conducting mass executions, and publicly flaunting their atrocities.
Yet, as of this writing, major world governments and mainstream news outlets have either ignored or downplayed the massacre.
Drone Terror: Systematic Attacks on Sudan’s Infrastructure
While the world’s gaze remains elsewhere, the RSF has intensified another equally devastating tactic: strategic drone attacks on Sudan’s infrastructure.
On the same day as the Omdurman massacre, RSF drone units launched coordinated attacks on power stations, hospitals, and water facilities across River Nile State.
Targets included:
- Merowe Power Station: Critical for electricity supply to large parts of the northern states, leaving hospitals and homes without power.
- Water Pumping Stations: Disabling access to clean drinking water for hundreds of thousands already living under siege conditions.
- Hospitals and Clinics: Several facilities treating civilians and war-wounded patients were bombed, killing doctors, nurses, and patients alike.
- Telecommunication Towers: Severely disrupting communication lines, leaving affected communities cut off from the outside world.
The RSF’s intent is unmistakable: break the population’s will to resist by denying them basic necessities like water, electricity, and healthcare. This is a clear violation of international humanitarian law, which prohibits the targeting of civilian infrastructure during conflict.
The use of drones to target civilians and critical services reveals a chilling new phase in the RSF’s campaign: sophisticated, methodical terrorism.
A Deafening Silence: Where is the World?
The massacre in Omdurman and the drone attacks in River Nile State are not isolated incidents. They are the latest chapters in a consistent pattern of RSF behavior — mass killings, rapes, forced displacements, the use of starvation as a weapon of war, and now infrastructure terrorism.
Despite overwhelming evidence, including video footage and eyewitness testimony, the international community’s response has been shockingly muted. The United Nations, major human rights organizations, and leading Western governments have issued little more than boilerplate statements, if any at all.
Mainstream media — which once flooded headlines over lesser atrocities elsewhere — has largely ignored the crimes committed in Sudan.
This selective silence sends a chilling message to the RSF: they can massacre civilians live on camera and face no real consequences.
It also sends a grim message to the Sudanese people: your lives, your dignity, your suffering do not merit global concern unless it serves the interests of major powers.
International Support for Terror: The Hidden Hands Behind RSF
The RSF’s brutal campaign is not solely a domestic affair. Their ability to wage war on such a large scale is directly tied to foreign sponsorship and material support.
- United Arab Emirates (UAE): The UAE has been widely accused of funneling arms, funding, and political backing to the RSF. Drones, sophisticated weaponry, and financial support have flowed to the paramilitary through clandestine and sometimes overt channels.
- Chad: RSF fighters have reportedly used Chad as a logistical hub, exploiting tribal ties across the border and receiving safe passage and rear bases for their operations.
- Kenya and Uganda: These countries, despite their official neutrality, have provided political cover and safe havens for RSF allies and facilitators, turning a blind eye to the flow of arms and money, and in some cases even enabling operations through lax border controls and diplomatic complicity.
This constellation of regional powers — each driven by their own ambitions — sees the Sudanese conflict as an opportunity: a way to expand influence, plunder resources, and redraw regional power balances at the expense of Sudan’s sovereignty.
A New Form of Colonization
Make no mistake: the war in Sudan is not simply a civil conflict. It is the frontline of a new form of colonization — one no longer conducted with armies and flags, but with proxies, mercenaries, drones, and economic strangulation.
Sudan is the Jewel of Africa — the gateway to the continent, sitting astride critical trade routes, blessed with vast mineral wealth, fertile lands, gold, oil, uranium, and countless other resources.
Whoever controls Sudan holds one of the keys to Africa’s future — and this fact is not lost on the predatory forces backing the RSF. They seek to carve Sudan apart, to turn it into a failed, pliable vassal state that can be looted with impunity, denying the Sudanese people their right to self-determination, dignity, and prosperity.
This is not merely war; it is a violent theft of a nation’s future.
Why the Silence?
Several factors explain this disgraceful indifference:
- Geopolitical Interests: Major powers are reluctant to confront the RSF’s backers, fearing economic and political repercussions.
- Global Fatigue: The world is overwhelmed with conflicts — from Ukraine to Gaza — and Sudan’s agony has been pushed out of the spotlight.
- Racism and Dehumanization: At a fundamental level, there is a troubling willingness to treat African lives as less worthy of outrage, less deserving of justice.
- Media Bias: Mainstream outlets prioritize conflicts that resonate with Western audiences, often overlooking black and brown suffering unless it fits a convenient narrative.
- Complicity in Resource Exploitation: Some global actors benefit directly or indirectly from instability in resource-rich African countries, giving them little incentive to intervene.
The Moral Obligation to Speak Out
History will judge not only the perpetrators of these crimes but also those who stood by and said nothing.
The massacre in Omdurman, the terror drone campaign, and the systematic targeting of civilians in Sudan demand more than hand-wringing or “deep concern.” They demand:
- Immediate investigations by the International Criminal Court.
- Concrete sanctions against RSF leaders and their international backers.
- Massive humanitarian aid to support displaced and besieged communities.
- Relentless media coverage to keep Sudan’s suffering in the public eye.
Every moment of silence is a victory for the RSF. Every muted response is complicity.
Conclusion
The events of April 27, 2025, in Omdurman must not be forgotten. They are not “just another tragedy” in a distant land — they are crimes that shame the global conscience.
The RSF’s live-streamed massacre of innocent civilians and its calculated attacks on infrastructure are acts of pure terrorism. Their goal is the annihilation of Sudanese society as a functioning entity.
The international backers enabling this terror — the UAE, Chad, Kenya, Uganda, and others — must be exposed and held accountable. So too must the media bias and global indifference that allow such crimes to flourish.
The war in Sudan is a war for the soul of Africa. It is a war against a new, insidious colonization. It is a war for the right of nations to control their own destinies.
Sudan bleeds. The world watches. History records.
Will you be silent? Or will you stand with the victims and demand justice?