‘Ethnic cleansing behind attacks on Darfur villages’: JEM
The Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) condemned the widespread acts of destruction by the Rapid Support Forces and other militia groups on villages in North and South Darfur, as well as the silence of the Um Jaras Forum’s participants concerning the attacks. “On Sunday, when the Um Jaras Forum was concluding its sessions, the destruction of rural areas in North Darfur had intensified. However, not a single reference, let alone a condemnation of the attacks, was mentioned in the Forum’s outcomes,” Ahmed Adam Bakhit, Deputy Head of JEM, told Radio Dabanga on Wednesday. “The Rapid Support militias have destroyed all ‘the arable and arid’ in areas southeast of Nyala in South Darfur, west of El Fasher, the north-western parts of Kutum, and west of Mellit in North Darfur. This policy of scorched earth and the systematic impoverishment of the people of Darfur can only be described as ethnic cleansing,” Bakhit stated. In a statement released on Wednesday, JEM listed a number of North Darfur villages that were looted and destroyed on Saturday, Sunday, and Monday: Hashaba El Donki, Bir Subyan Kujo, Hamarei, Hillet Salem, Hillet Nugara, Bawa, Hillet Mandi, Nagu Jara, Baashim, Amarjadeed, Tirbo Suri, Hillet Adam Khater, Hillet Abu Bakar, Hillet Nakari, and Hillet Haroun, Anka, and Anka El Gadima. “During these three days of ravaging by the RSF militias, under the command of the National Intelligence and Security Service, the areas were bombarded by the Sudanese Air Force. After the attacks, the militias gathered at Baashim, most probably to plan a new campaign of attacks.” File photo: A burnt house in Mellit, 25 March 2014 (Albert González Farran/Unamid)Related:Thousands of North Darfur villagers flee to areas short of water (1 April 2014)Darfur rebels accuse Sudan’s Vice-President of supervising militias (1 April 2014)
The Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) condemned the widespread acts of destruction by the Rapid Support Forces and other militia groups on villages in North and South Darfur, as well as the silence of the Um Jaras Forum’s participants concerning the attacks.
“On Sunday, when the Um Jaras Forum was concluding its sessions, the destruction of rural areas in North Darfur had intensified. However, not a single reference, let alone a condemnation of the attacks, was mentioned in the Forum’s outcomes,” Ahmed Adam Bakhit, Deputy Head of JEM, told Radio Dabanga on Wednesday.
“The Rapid Support militias have destroyed all ‘the arable and arid’ in areas southeast of Nyala in South Darfur, west of El Fasher, the north-western parts of Kutum, and west of Mellit in North Darfur. This policy of scorched earth and the systematic impoverishment of the people of Darfur can only be described as ethnic cleansing,” Bakhit stated.
In a statement released on Wednesday, JEM listed a number of North Darfur villages that were looted and destroyed on Saturday, Sunday, and Monday: Hashaba El Donki, Bir Subyan Kujo, Hamarei, Hillet Salem, Hillet Nugara, Bawa, Hillet Mandi, Nagu Jara, Baashim, Amarjadeed, Tirbo Suri, Hillet Adam Khater, Hillet Abu Bakar, Hillet Nakari, and Hillet Haroun, Anka, and Anka El Gadima.
“During these three days of ravaging by the RSF militias, under the command of the National Intelligence and Security Service, the areas were bombarded by the Sudanese Air Force. After the attacks, the militias gathered at Baashim, most probably to plan a new campaign of attacks.”
File photo: A burnt house in Mellit, 25 March 2014 (Albert González Farran/Unamid)
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