Herdsmen beat 80-year-old woman in West Darfur: source
An elderly displaced woman has reportedly suffered two torn eyeballs on Monday after being whipped and beaten, allegedly by pro-government militiamen, at Abu Suruj near Sirba in West Darfur. An activist told Radio Dabanga that “Fatima Assad (80) was tending her farm when a group of armed men whipped her and beat her with sticks and rifle butts” on Monday evening. The source said that Assad was attempting to prevent the herdsmen from allowing their livestock to graze on her farm. As previously reported, frequent reports reach Radio Dabanga of similar assaults by herdsmen on farmers throughout Darfur. The activist said that Assad was taken to hospital in state capital El Geneina for treatment, and appealed through Radio Dabanga for local authorities and Unamid to protect the displaced and end these attacks. File photo: Displaced Darfuri women (Albert González Farran/Unamid) Related: ‘Herdsmen graze livestock on Darfur farms at gunpoint’: farmers (31 July 2013)
An elderly displaced woman has reportedly suffered two torn eyeballs on Monday after being whipped and beaten, allegedly by pro-government militiamen, at Abu Suruj near Sirba in West Darfur.
An activist told Radio Dabanga that “Fatima Assad (80) was tending her farm when a group of armed men whipped her and beat her with sticks and rifle butts” on Monday evening.
The source said that Assad was attempting to prevent the herdsmen from allowing their livestock to graze on her farm.
As previously reported, frequent reports reach Radio Dabanga of similar assaults by herdsmen on farmers throughout Darfur.
The activist said that Assad was taken to hospital in state capital El Geneina for treatment, and appealed through Radio Dabanga for local authorities and Unamid to protect the displaced and end these attacks.
File photo: Displaced Darfuri women (Albert González Farran/Unamid)
Related: ‘Herdsmen graze livestock on Darfur farms at gunpoint’: farmers (31 July 2013)
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