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Sudan: more than 210 dead in violence in Darfur

2022-04-27T15:05:11.375Z


At least 213 people have been killed in four days of tribal violence in Darfur, the governor of this region of...


At least 213 people have been killed in four days of tribal violence in Darfur, said Tuesday, April 26 the governor of this region of western Sudan ravaged for decades by war.

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The violence began Friday in Krink, inhabited mainly by the Massalit tribe, and spread to El-Geneina, the capital of West Darfur.

According to the General Coordination for Refugees and Displaced in Darfur, the violence erupted when armed fighters from Arab tribes attacked Masalit villages, an African ethnic minority, in retaliation for the deaths on Thursday of two members of their tribes.

The heaviest toll was recorded on Sunday with “

201 dead and 13 injured

,” West Darfur Governor Khamis Abkar said in a video released late Tuesday.

In addition, eight people were killed on Friday and four others on Monday, according to Khamis Abkar.

"

A crime against humanity

"

In his video, the governor also accused government forces tasked with providing security for Krink of “

withdrawing without any justification

” as fighting escalated on Sunday.

The city of Krink "

has been completely destroyed, including government institutions

", lamented Khamis Abkar.

It is a crime against humanity.

»

Witnesses accused the Janjawid militia, a proxy force for the Sudanese government, of orchestrating the violence.

These militiamen used by the dictator Omar al-Bashir in his long war launched in 2003 in Darfur have in recent years joined by the thousands the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), led by General Mohammed Hamdane Daglo, number two of the military power in place. since the October putsch in Khartoum.

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According to the UN, dozens of people have been killed and hundreds of houses burnt down during several episodes of violence in Darfur in recent months favored, according to experts, by the security vacuum created by General Abdel Fattah al-Burhane's coup in Khartoum in October.

The region was ravaged by a civil war that began in 2003 between the Arab-majority regime and insurgents from ethnic minorities denouncing discrimination.

About 300,000 people died and nearly 2.5 million displaced during the first years of violence, according to the UN.

Sudan, which emerged in 2019 from 30 years of dictatorship under Omar al-Bashir, has been mired in political and economic slump since the October coup.

Source: lefigaro

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