Barbara Platt-Usher
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The main patterns that emerged from the investigation were repeated hits on residential neighborhoods, repeated hits on markets, often during crowded market days.
Also, a large number of alleged strikes on humanitarian and medical facilities.
And as you were hearing from Mark Snook, there are evidence that the Air Force had used unguided bombs in populated areas.
And their strongest case for that was verified images of an unexploded, unguided aerial bomb in a camp for displaced people,
And they had quite a close picture of it and said this is the kind of bomb produced by Sudanese arms manufacturers.
They also did case studies on quite a few strikes on markets, as well as a particular strike on a hospital in Darfur and many on residential neighbourhoods.
For example, a series of airstrikes in early February in the city centre of Nyala, which is a main base for the RSF.
Well, it hasn't said anything to us.
We asked for a response and they didn't reply.
But it has previously denied allegations of targeting civilians.
What it says is that its airstrikes are directed solely at RSF sites recognized as legitimate military targets.
It accuses the RSF of seeking refuge within residential neighborhoods.
It insists it is strictly observing.
international humanitarian laws.
And the Sudan Witness Project was quite careful about its data.
It says that its research is incomplete because the results reflect access to available material rather than the total number of strikes.
And available material is quite limited in a war zone, sat images, videos, credible sources.
So it says military strikes are probably underreported.
And that's why they analyzed hundreds of reports of airstrikes.
So they were able to paint a wider picture and observe these wider patterns.