The research considered that the current conflict in Sudan It is one of the bloodiest conflicts in the world, but it has received the least media coverage, which has led to an alarmingly high number of casualties.
Medical and public health specialists at the Universities of Nebraska, California, Leuven and Oregon based their research on estimates of Sudan Doctors Syndicate International organizations counted about 19,000 people who were killed directly, in addition to about 111,000 who lost their lives due to the inability to obtain food and treatment or for other reasons resulting from the repercussions of the war.
The number of victims of aerial bombardment and military confrontations in Sudan is increasing in parallel with the intensification of fighting in about 70 percent of the country’s regions, and the spread of many infectious diseases such as Cholera.
The researchers acknowledged the difficulty of conducting accurate statistics in light of the great chaos that the country is experiencing, the burial of many dead without records, or the leaving of large numbers of bodies in the streets due to the dangerous security conditions, and the absence of most hospitals from service.
And it caused Sudanese war In a deep humanitarian crisis accompanied by widespread ethnic cleansing, mass displacement, and major food shortages, matters are becoming more complicated in light of the frightening spread of diseases.
“Considering death tolls in such a conflict includes not only counting those killed as a direct result of the violence – which is difficult to determine – but also those who died due to factors exacerbating the conflict, such as the absence of emergency care and the collapse of vaccination programmes,” the researchers said. And food shortages and basic medicine.
The Armed Conflict Incident Data Organization (ACLED), a non-profit organization specializing in collecting conflict-related data, recorded an average of more than 1,200 direct deaths per month due to the conflict in Sudan, which means about 21,600 people were killed during the eighteen months following the outbreak of the conflict. War.
This number is close to other estimates issued by the Sudan Medical Syndicate and the “Protect Sudan” group, a central group of United Nations agencies and NGOs that used data. Global Health Organization.
ASLID derives its estimates of the number of deaths from traditional media, reports from international NGOs and local observers, as well as from verified social media accounts.
