Families flee ‘rough justice’ to Kalma camp in South Darfur
An additional 350 families arrived at Kalma camp near Nyala in South Darfur on Thursday, where they are reportedly suffering from inhuman conditions. They have fled Gandy town and surrounding villages in Kubum locality between 16 and 23 May.The spokesman for the association of refugees and displaced persons of Darfur, Hussein Abu Sharati, said that all new arrivals have been certified by organisations, but they have not yet received any aid. They come from Kurundi, Krokoro, Keldeko, Umm Beloda, and Gandy, he told Radio Dabanga.Sources said the new arrivals in Kalma have fled Gandy area following incidents after a gunman attempted to steal a resident’s motorcycle but was overpowered by other residents. The gunman was severely beaten and then handed over to the police, only to die of his injuries en route to the hospital in Nyala.The would-be thief’s relatives, “from the Awlat Khanim tribe”, then launched a retaliatory assault on Gandy. They threatened to attack the town unless the villagers paid pay 30 cows and SDG 120,000 ($27,300) as “blood money”. When neither the cows nor the money were paid, the militia killed Sheikh Suleiman, leader of the Gandy mosque, and injured dozens more.Thousands of people fleeing tribal clashes and battles between government and rebel forces in, mainly, South and East Darfur have arrived at the Nyala camps in the past two months. This humanitarian crisis stretches the capacity and resources of camps to the extreme.File photo by Albert Gonzalez Farran/Unamid Related: Disease kills children, causes miscarriages in camps near Nyala, South Darfur (22 May 2013)
An additional 350 families arrived at Kalma camp near Nyala in South Darfur on Thursday, where they are reportedly suffering from inhuman conditions. They have fled Gandy town and surrounding villages in Kubum locality between 16 and 23 May.
The spokesman for the association of refugees and displaced persons of Darfur, Hussein Abu Sharati, said that all new arrivals have been certified by organisations, but they have not yet received any aid. They come from Kurundi, Krokoro, Keldeko, Umm Beloda, and Gandy, he told Radio Dabanga.
Sources said the new arrivals in Kalma have fled Gandy area following incidents after a gunman attempted to steal a resident’s motorcycle but was overpowered by other residents. The gunman was severely beaten and then handed over to the police, only to die of his injuries en route to the hospital in Nyala.
The would-be thief’s relatives, “from the Awlat Khanim tribe”, then launched a retaliatory assault on Gandy. They threatened to attack the town unless the villagers paid pay 30 cows and SDG 120,000 ($27,300) as “blood money”. When neither the cows nor the money were paid, the militia killed Sheikh Suleiman, leader of the Gandy mosque, and injured dozens more.
Thousands of people fleeing tribal clashes and battles between government and rebel forces in, mainly, South and East Darfur have arrived at the Nyala camps in the past two months. This humanitarian crisis stretches the capacity and resources of camps to the extreme.
File photo by Albert Gonzalez Farran/Unamid
Related: Disease kills children, causes miscarriages in camps near Nyala, South Darfur (22 May 2013)
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