Dozens of dead, injured in Taaysha-Salamat clashes in South Darfur
Dozens of people have been killed and injured in an attack by Taaysha tribesmen on the Salamat village of Duleiba, Rahad El Berdi locality in South Darfur. Villagers told Radio Dabanga that Taaysha tribesmen in 20 Land Cruisers mounted with machine guns approached the village at about 8am on Sunday. The ensuing clashes between the two parties lasted until 1pm. By that time, the entire village had been destroyed by fire, ‘a large number of people were killed, many others injured, and large numbers of livestock had disappeared’. It has not yet been possible to count exact numbers. Residents of Rahd El Berdi town told Radio Dabanga that the hospital received large numbers of wounded and dead in the afternoon. Some wounded people had to be transferred to the hospital of Nyala. They said that the sounds of artillery and gunshots led to the closing of the weekly Sunday market of Markondi. Farmers tending their crops in the area of Markondi and Kubbum fled to their homes. According to the sources, residents and authorities of the neighbouring Ed El Fursan locality refused to receive the many Salamat, most of them women, children and elderly, who had fled from the battlefield. Ali Kushayb, a suspected war criminal wanted by the ICC and a member of the South Darfuri Taaysha tribe, fought alongside the Misseriya against the Salamat in Central and South Darfur earlier this year. Kushayb is the commander of the Central Reserve Forces (known as Abu Tira) in South Darfur.A Salamat spokesman has recently blamed the federal Minister of Finance, Ali Mahmoud, for fuelling the clashes by providing support to the Misseriya. He claims that vehicles used by Kushayb during his attacks on the Salamat in Abugaradil, Um Dukhun and Rahad El Berdi, were given to him by the Minister.File photo Related:Central Darfur tribal clashes continue amid authorities absence (8 November 2013) ‘1000 Misseriya’ fight Salamat tribesmen in Central Darfur (8 November 2013)Misseriya attack Salamat in Mukjar, Central Darfur (6 November 2013)
Dozens of people have been killed and injured in an attack by Taaysha tribesmen on the Salamat village of Duleiba, Rahad El Berdi locality in South Darfur.
Villagers told Radio Dabanga that Taaysha tribesmen in 20 Land Cruisers mounted with machine guns approached the village at about 8am on Sunday. The ensuing clashes between the two parties lasted until 1pm. By that time, the entire village had been destroyed by fire, ‘a large number of people were killed, many others injured, and large numbers of livestock had disappeared’. It has not yet been possible to count exact numbers.
Residents of Rahd El Berdi town told Radio Dabanga that the hospital received large numbers of wounded and dead in the afternoon. Some wounded people had to be transferred to the hospital of Nyala. They said that the sounds of artillery and gunshots led to the closing of the weekly Sunday market of Markondi. Farmers tending their crops in the area of Markondi and Kubbum fled to their homes.
According to the sources, residents and authorities of the neighbouring Ed El Fursan locality refused to receive the many Salamat, most of them women, children and elderly, who had fled from the battlefield.
Ali Kushayb, a suspected war criminal wanted by the ICC and a member of the South Darfuri Taaysha tribe, fought alongside the Misseriya against the Salamat in Central and South Darfur earlier this year. Kushayb is the commander of the Central Reserve Forces (known as Abu Tira) in South Darfur.
A Salamat spokesman has recently blamed the federal Minister of Finance, Ali Mahmoud, for fuelling the clashes by providing support to the Misseriya. He claims that vehicles used by Kushayb during his attacks on the Salamat in Abugaradil, Um Dukhun and Rahad El Berdi, were given to him by the Minister.
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