She lost track of most of her family as she fled. “I don’t know what’s become of them, my mother, father, siblings, my grandmother, I came here with strangers,“ she said - one of six survivors who told Reuters of arson and executions in the raid.
The RSF did not respond to a request for comment, but has denied accusations of atrocities and said the camp was being used as a base by forces loyal to the army. Humanitarian groups have denounced the raid as a targeted attack on civilians already facing famine.
She said she watched seven people die of hunger and thirst, and others succumb to their injuries on her latest journey.
Bodies found
Speaking from al-Fashir - the capital of North Darfur 15 km north of Zamzam which the RSF is trying to take from the army - one man who asked not to be named said he had found the bodies of 24 people killed in an attack on a religious school, some of them lined up.
Another man, an elder in the camp, said the RSF had killed 14 people at close range in a mosque near his home.
Reuters could not independently verify the reports.
Other videos verified by Reuters showed RSF soldiers shooting an unarmed man as others lay on the ground. One showed armed men celebrating as they stood around a group of dead bodies.
Fight for darfur
The war between the Sudanese army - which has also been accused of atrocities, charges it denies - and the RSF broke out in April 2023 over plans to integrate the two forces. The RSF's roots lie in Darfur's Janjaweed militias, whose attacks in the early 2000s led to the creation of Zamzam and other displacement camps across Darfur.
The researchers also saw checkpoints around the camp, and witnesses told Reuters that some people were being prevented from leaving.
Supplies of food, water and shelter were already low before the new arrivals.
Ahmed Mohamed, who arrived in Tawila this week, said he was robbed of all his possessions by soldiers on the road, and was now sleeping on the bare ground.
“We are in need of everything a human being would need,“ he said.
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