(14 Apr 2025)
RESTRICTIONS SUMMARY:
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Khartoum, Sudan – 1 April 2025
1. Various of historic statues, pillars outside Sudan’s National Museum, and damaged building facade
2. Sign reading (Arabic and English) "Sudan National Museum"
3. Shards of glass on the ground
4. Various of damaged coffins and mummies
5. Empty, damaged display cabinets in museum hall
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Omdurman, Sudan – 1 April 2025
6. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Gamal ElDeen Zain al-Abdeen, Museums and Antiquities officer at Sudan’s National corporation for Antiquities and Museums:
"This rebel militia (Rapid Support Forces) has destroyed everything including all what concerns the Sudanese individual and the civilization of the Sudanese people."
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Khartoum, Sudan – 1 April 2025
7. Pan left showing damaged building
8. Various of statues
9. Damage and rubble inside museum
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Omdurman, Sudan – 1 April 2025
10. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Gamal ElDeen Zain al-Abdeen, Museums and Antiquities officer at Sudan’s National corporation for Antiquities and Museums:
"The most important artifacts that were stolen were in the safe room or what we refer to as the strong room, which hosted antiquities that are made of gold or gold-plated items. These were inside the strong room that was stormed and looted, same as what happened to the rest of the artifacts."
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Khartoum, Sudan – 1 April 2025
11. Various exterior of damaged museum
12. Officials walking inside
13. Support structure inside museum
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Omdurman, Sudan – 1 April 2025
14. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Gamal ElDeen Zain al-Abdeen, Museums and Antiquities officer at Sudan’s National corporation for Antiquities and Museums:
"The main storage where antiquities are stored as well as the main hall were subjected to damages including in the building itself, or the structure."
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Khartoum, Sudan – 1 April 2025
15. Various of antiquities
16. Damaged office inside museum
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Omdurman, Sudan – 1 April 2025
17. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Gamal ElDeen Zain al-Abdeen, Museums and Antiquities officer at Sudan’s National corporation for Antiquities and Museums:
"The losses are extremely big and saddening. As I’ve mentioned, a big number of antiquities was stolen, a significant amount. And this was determined by us being on the ground."
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Khartoum, Sudan – 1 April 2025
18. Sign on museum’s wall
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Omdurman, Sudan – 1 April 2025
19. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Sedeeq Mohamed Sedeeq, local resident:
"You (Rapid Support Forces) are erasing the history of a country that is more than 7,000 years old. You are telling people that you’re coming to bring democracy and liberation, but you are wiping the history of a nation, wiping away 7,000 years (of history). You are erasing the oldest nation in history, erasing its history by entering the national museum and looting its belongings and destroying that which you were not able to loot."
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Khartoum, Sudan – 1 April 2025
20. Statue outside museum
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Omdurman, Sudan – 1 April 2025
21. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) al-Mohalel ballah al-Nour, local resident:
"The war that took place in Sudan was a very bad one and the destruction was systematic, destruction of the civilization, of the Sudanese individual and the nation as well as education and health. It was on all levels, even the infrastructure, from the airport to bridges, people’s houses and the violations (that took place). In brief, it was a systematic destruction of the whole Sudan."
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