Hospitals deliberately targeted by Sudan's RSF fighters, BBC investigation finds

The attacks culminated in an RSF raid on 8 June. Hospital staff were taken by surprise - many of them escaped over the back wall as the RSF fighters entered the building, says Dr Mustafa Ahmed, a pharmaceutical specialist.But the director general of the hospital, surgeon Izzeldin Ahmed Dawaud Asow, encountered a group of the paramilitaries outside his office.They did not know he was a doctor, he said, but denounced him with ethnic slurs."There are no citizens here. You are Falangi," they said, using a derogatory term implying that non-Arab Sudanese are foreigners.Dr Asow says he was beaten with rifle butts and lost consciousness at one point. Ultimately, he saved himself by pretending to be dead."They put their hand on my chest, and I stopped breathing. And they said: 'Leave him, leave him. The rubbish has died. Leave him.' They left me."That same day the RSF was driven out by the Sudanese military and its allies and Dr Asow returned to find the bodies of several patients and the surgical equipment in his operating room thoroughly destroyed, he said.The hospital closed and later fell into RSF hands when the army retreated.Dr Alaa Eldin Nugud, a prominent Sudanese surgeon who has jo...