Other government forces allegedly included the Sudanese Armed Forces and Rapid Support Forces.
But no team has generated such rapid support from so many people with no direct connection to the club.
This year, government troops, including former militias now called Rapid Support Forces, have attacked settlements in purported rebel strongholds, including the Jebel Marra mountains.
In the past few weeks, Bashir's Rapid Support Forces have re-launched a military campaign displacing an estimated 90,000 people.
In September a Human Rights Watch report confirmed that civilians remain subjected to a campaign of violent attacks by the government's Rapid Support Forces, a military group under the control of the Sudanese national intelligence and security services.
HRW says sexual violence has been a prominent feature of attacks carried out by the Rapid Support Force, a new security force under the command of Sudanese national intelligence and security services.
In a new report – the latest detailing repeated horrors in Darfur – HRW quoted women who were gang-raped, and defectors from the government's Rapid Support Forces (RSF), one of whom described his commanders as "men without mercy".
Ahmed El Nu also made an appeal to the Rapid Support Forces, a militia group linked to the government, to: "refrain from Bashir's crimes and join the Sudanese people in their march to change, and building a state of equal citizenship".
Although the crisis seems to have dropped off the world's radar, activists say there has been a rise in attacks on civilians over the past year, spearheaded by the government's new Rapid Support Forces, consisting largely of former militias.
On 6 January, a large joint force of the Sudanese army and Rapid Support Forces (RSF) moved from the city of Talodi into the nearby town of Kega, an opposition stronghold, and began shelling nearby rebel positions.
