Sudanese military accused of carrying out massacre in Darfur
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What are the main news stories covered in this episode?
This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm Janet Jalil and at 14 hours GMT on Tuesday the 25th of March, these are our main stories. The Sudanese military is accused of carrying out a horrific massacre. It denies it killed hundreds of people in an airstrike on a market. A court in Japan orders a controversial religious sect whose followers are known as Moonies be stripped of legal recognition. The How millions of tyres meant to be recycled are ending up in furnaces in India instead, causing health and environmental problems. Also in this podcast, we hear about the rare sea turtle that's been left stranded by one of Donald Trump's executive orders.
It is a huge problem. It's very frustrating because obviously animals, species don't understand politics. They don't understand boundaries and borders. You know, they're doing their thing and nothing has really changed in that respect.
We start with what's been called one of the worst single attacks in Sudan's two-year-long civil war. A war monitor says hundreds of people have been massacred by the army in a market in the western Darfur region of Sudan. The emergency lawyers group said army planes carried out an airstrike and another group reported mass casualties from a bombing on Monday.
What happened in the alleged Sudanese military massacre in Darfur?
The army denies it carried out the attack, but civilian deaths have intensified in recent months as the military retakes territory from the rival paramilitary force, the RSF. Our Africa region editor, Will Ross, told us more about the attack.
So this market, Torah market, attracts people from villages across that area of North Darfur. And we understand that it was extremely busy when it was hit. The videos are horrific, to put it mildly. I mean, a lot of destruction and destruction. burnt property, but also the videos show the charred remains of people who were hit during these attacks that we understand came from the air. So the Sudanese armed forces bombing from the air. As you said there, the army itself has denied carrying out the attack. It says it only attacks legitimate targets, not civilians. But throughout the war, both the rapid support forces and the army have killed huge numbers of civilians and they certainly haven't discriminated between military targets and civilian ones.
But yes, possibly the biggest single attack since the war began. It's very hard to know the numbers but two different groups the Darfur Initiative for Justice and Peace and the Emergency Lawyers Network are both giving details of this attack and interesting that the Emergency Lawyers Network it's really reported abuses by both sides in this war even Just 24 hours ago, they were talking about an atrocity committed by the RSF where a mosque was attacked in Khartoum. So it does sort of add to the credibility that they are pointing out atrocities by both sides.
And what adds to the credibility is that it's only the army that has warplanes.
That's right. I mean, the RSF do have drones. So sometimes for people in areas when bombs are falling from the skies, there can be confusion. But in this case, the reports are consistent that these were army planes.
And it's nearly two years now since the civil war began. What can we expect? Because it doesn't seem that there's any sign of resolution in sight. And in fact, the fighting has intensified.
The fighting's definitely intensified. And as we've been hearing over the last few days in the capital Khartoum, the army's been making quite a lot of inroads, including taking the presidential palace. It still seems that both sides are determined to fight on. And of course, accusations of external interference, including by the United Arab Emirates.
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5 chapters
1
What are the main news stories covered in this episode?
0:38–2:01
2
What happened in the alleged Sudanese military massacre in Darfur?
2:01–7:05
3
What is the controversy surrounding tyre disposal between the UK and India?
7:05–12:05
4
How is Trump's executive order affecting a rare turtle in Wales?
12:05–16:49
5
What is the potential new treatment for rheumatoid arthritis?
16:49–33:44
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