Gunmen attack Darfur civilians, UNAMID says
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March 24, 2014 (KHARTOUM) - The African Union-United Nations Mission
in Darfur (UNAMID) said unidentified gunmen attacked a camp for
internally displaced persons (IDPs) in South Darfur and a number of
villages in North Darfur states forcing some 3,000 civilians to seek
protection at its bases.
"In Khor Abeche, on 22 March, about 300 heavily armed men attacked [a]
camp, [for IDPs] setting fire to dozens of shelters and stealing
livestock belonging to the residents. As a result of the incident, at
least 2,000 IDPs sought refuge at the UNAMID base. One IDP was
reportedly killed," said the hybrid mission in a statement released on
Monday.
On the same Saturday "hundreds of families approached UNAMID's base in
Korma and advised that Kobe town (approximately 21km north of the
base) and neighbouring villages, had been attacked by armed men on 21
March", the statement said adding one person reportedly killed.
UNMAID further indicated that around 1,000 IDPs are now gathered
around its base in Korma.
The government has mobilised its militias, including its Rapid Support
Forces (RSF) or Janjaweed, which are accused of committing attacks
against civilians during the ongoing anti-rebel campaign in North and
South Darfur states.
UK-based charity group SUDO-UK reported last Sunday that the RSF
militiamen on the orders of vice-president Hasabo Mohamed Abdel Rahman
who supervised the military campaign attacked and burnt several
villages in the eastern part of Jebel Mara in North Darfur.
"As a result [of an attack on 21 March] three children, a women and
five men were killed in Deby Nayra, Dally and Nimrra villages," the
group said.
The militiamen, on the day after, killed two villagers meanwhile two
others were abducted in the same area.
"On the same day 22 March, the (RSF) looted around 1000 cattle that
belong to Adam Abdallah Haroun from Leyia village in the east of Jebel
Marra, South Darfur," it added.
However, the head of the militia group, Gen. Mohamed Hamdan, on Monday
denied the accusations saying that the RSF men who are under the
command of the National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS) are
there to protect the country and the civilians and vowed to inflect
more defeats on the rebel groups.
(ST)
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