An eyewitness tells the BBC he saw dozens of bodies being dumped by a paramilitary group.
By Mercy Juma & Peter Ball in Adre, ChadMaalim is traumatised by what he saw in Sudan's western region of Darfur, before he fled across the border to Chad.
"I felt terrible. I felt like they died while in a state of fear and terror. Many of them had been lying dead on the streets for more than a week," he tells us, visibly distressed. Nobody knows who the bodies belong to or how they were killed. But many families who have sought refuge in Chad tell us the RSF were specifically targeting young men and boys in West Darfur, forcing them out of their hideouts and killing them.
The metadata on the photos and videos in Maalim's phone show that they were taken between 20 and 21 June, the same dates mentioned in the UN report.
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