Militiamen ‘in Abu Tira uniforms’ attack North Darfur camp

Several displaced people of the Abu Shouk camp in El Fasher locality, North Darfur, reportedly sustained various injuries during an attack by militiamen on 16 November. One of the camp sheikhs told Radio Dabanga that “government-backed militiamen wearing Central Reserve Forces (Abu Tira) uniforms attacked a number of Abu Shouk camp residents inside their houses at about 8pm on Saturday”.They shot Mohamed Ibrahim Abkar in his hand, took SDG720 ($126), and three mobile phones from his home shop. They attacked Maryam Abkar, stabbing her in the head and right hand. When her fellow camp resident, Mohamed Abdelkarim intervened to protect her, they wounded him too. The sheikh added that Mohamed Ibrahim Abkar was arrested because he defended himself and his propertiy from the attacking militiamen. The camp residents angrily demanded his immediate release. Saraf Omra In Birkat Seira in Saraf Omra the locality, North Darfur, militiamen attacked Sheikh El Nur Abkar and Abdallah Dumma inside their homes. They beat them with rifle butts and whipped them so severely that both had to be treated in the Saraf Omra hospital. In another incident, two commercial vehicles on their way from Saraf Omra to Kabkabiya were attacked by militiamen in the area of Birka Seira. They demanded passenger Ali El Seir get out and robbed him of all his belongings. File photo: A patch used by Sudan’s Central Reserve Forces (also known as Abu Tira) shows an eagle with spread wings, clutching a red sun, over an Eye of Horus. The Arabic text below the eagle reads, “Central Reserve: The Police in Service of the People.” (Enough Project/Flickr)