Members of the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) beheaded two individuals and filmed themselves showing off the severed heads, prompting the SAF General Command to announce an investigation into the shocking incident.
Circulating videos show a group of more than a dozen Sudanese army soldiers jeering and passing around the two severed heads, while threatening that all members of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) will meet the same fate.
Several of the men hold up knives and a sword, while they chant slogans and threats. One of the soldiers joyfully broke out an accordion.
One of the soldiers called the victims “rotten habash,” a word usually used for Ethiopians, but which could also be a generalized ethnic slur.
It’s unclear if the victims were beheaded while alive or mutilated after being killed in another manner. Videos clearly show the faces of the two victims, but their identity is unknown; it’s unclear if they were RSF combatants, prisoners of wa…