In Darfur, the massacres of civilians follow and resemble each other.
Last Sunday, Arab tribes from the west of this Sudanese region led an assault on the town of Kereinik and the surrounding villages.
The provisional death toll of 201 makes it one of the deadliest attacks of the past two years.
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At the origin of the conflict: the discovery by an Arab tribe of the corpses of two of its own last week.
In retaliation against the alleged culprits, hundreds of men attacked this predominantly Masalit locality, a non-Arab ethnic group divided between Sudan and Chad.
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“They burned everything: the market, the school and a police station,
explains Ahmed Madani, reached by telephone, who works for several NGOs in the region.
Teachers were even killed in the school.”
From the beginning of the tensions, the authorities had nevertheless dispatched a joint force to the spot to protect the civilian populations.
According to witnesses, she would have folded inside…
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