In the war-torn region of North Darfur, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have escalated their reign of terror by abducting civilians and forcibly extracting their blood to aid wounded fighters, according to harrowing accounts from survivors, witnesses, and humanitarian workers. The atrocities unfolded during and after the RSF’s seizure of El Fasher—the last major stronghold of the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) in Darfur—on October 27, 2025, following a grueling 550-day siege that left the city starved and isolated. Survivors describe a nightmarish ordeal on escape routes, such as the perilous road from El Fasher to Tawila, where RSF patrols in military vehicles equipped with mobile medical units intercept fleeing families. One 35-year-old resident, Adam (pseudonym), recounted to reporters how he and others were bound with ropes, blindfolded, and subjected to repeated blood draws in makeshift clinics set up in commandeered hospitals, schools, and even commanders’ residences. “I don’t know how much blood they took… It felt like they might drain me dry and leave me to die,” Adam said, estimating he witnessed over 50 others enduring the procedure in a single facility, their blood collected in containers for RSF use. Detainees, often held for days or weeks, were also forced into unpaid labor—cooking, cleaning, and washing uniforms—before being confined in cramped rooms, emerging only after the extractions concluded. Another escapee, a schoolteacher named Ahmed, described a similar ambush: “They laughed while inserting the syringes, mocking us as ‘slaves’ and assuring us we wouldn’t die because their soldiers needed the blood.” He and his cousins were stopped amid chaos—gunfire echoing, bodies littering the streets—and bled dry before negotiating a ransom of over $7,000 for their release. Many didn’t survive; Ahmed later learned that 400 detainees at a school-turned-detention site had been executed. Humanitarian reports corroborate these claims, noting prior incidents in displacement camps like Zamzam, where RSF fighters had already begun coercive blood collections. Aid organizations, including Doctors Without Borders, have treated arrivals in Tawila—now sheltering 650,000 displaced people—for severe anemia, dehydration, and trauma exacerbated by blood loss. The RSF’s political wing, Tasis, vehemently denies the allegations, with spokesperson Alaaeldin Nugud dismissing them as part of a “fake media campaign” spreading lies about organ harvesting and other fabrications since El Fasher’s fall. Yet, independent analyses paint a grim picture: satellite imagery reveals bloodstained earth and mass graves, while Darfur Governor Minni Minnawi, aligned with the SAF, accuses the RSF of slaughtering 27,000 civilians in just three days during the assault. This blood extraction fits into a broader pattern of RSF abuses, including mass executions, rapes, and looting, rooted in the group’s origins as Janjaweed militias during the 2003 Darfur genocide. The 30-month civil war between the RSF and SAF, ignited in April 2023, has displaced over 10 million Sudanese and killed tens of thousands, creating the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. External actors, including allegations of UAE arms support to the RSF, have prolonged the suffering. As thousands more flee on foot toward Chad, survivors like Adam plead for international intervention: “This isn’t just war—it’s extermination, one drop at a time.”