``You Know SRK?`` Sudan RSF Ask Kidnapped Indian

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Source: ndtv.com
A video sent to NDTV shows an Indian man, identified as Adarsh Behera from Odishas Jagatsinghpur district, sitting between two RSF soldiers.

An Indian national has been kidnapped by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia in Sudan, a country that has seen violent clashes erupt since 2023 between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the RSF. Sudans capital, Khartoum, has been at the heart of this devastating conflict that has displaced over 13 million people.

A video sent to NDTV shows an Indian man, identified as Adarsh Behera from Odishas Jagatsinghpur district, sitting between two RSF soldiers one of whom asks him, "Do you know Shah Rukh Khan?"

Another soldier in his rear prompts him to tell the camera, "Dagalo good." Dagalo, of course, is in reference to Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, or "Hemeti," the dreaded leader of the RSF.

Sources told NDTV that Behera, 36, was kidnapped from the city of Al Fashir, roughly 1,000 km from Khartoum. From there, he is most likely taken to the city of Nyala, an RSF stronghold and the capital of South Darfur in southwest Sudan, roughly 1,200 km from Khartoum.

NDTV reached out to Beheras family in Odisha, who shared that the 36-year-old has been working in Sudan since 2022 for a company called Sukarati Plastic Factory. Beheras wife, Susmita, told NDTV that the couple are parents to two boys, eight and three years old.

Beheras family shared a video with NDTV in which he could be seen sitting on the floor with folded hands, pleading into the camera, "I am here in Al Fashir where the situation is very bad. I have been living here for two years with great difficulty. My family and children are very worried. I request the state (Odisha) government to help me."

Raiding on camelback and Toyota technicals, the RSF has swept the last government stronghold of Al Fashir after an 18-month siege. The International Criminal Court warned on Monday that the RSFs actions could amount to war crimes after reports of mass killings and rapes in the region.

"As you can expect, there is a complete communication blackout in Al Fashir. No one can contact anyone in the city right now. And we, of course, hope that he is not to be harmed or hurt by any mistake. This is very unpredictable. We kind of know what we need to do. And we have seen what they are capable of doing. We hope that he will be treated well. And we hope that we can see him coming back safely soon," Sudan Ambassador to India Dr Mohammed Abdalla Ali Eltom told NDTV.