Two killed in new village attack in Darfur’s East Jebel Marra

Two men were killed and a still unknown number of others wounded on Tuesday, when elements of the government Rapid Support Forces (RSF) plundered the village of Tangara, 20 km south of Tabit in East Jebel Marra. Witnesses told Radio Dabanga that Mahjoub Yagoub Adam and Adam Mukhtar Saleh died of bullet wounds, while an unknown number of people were injured. The militiamen then made off with the villagers’ money, their belongings, and their livestock. They said that the RSF is still in control of all the water points in the area. The militiamen also continue to restrict movement on the roads leading to El Fasher, Nyala, and Shangil Tobaya. “Many people are attempting to flee the area, but the militiamen are preventing them. They do not want us to reach the camps and cities to report the atrocities; the many acts of murder, rape, and robbery to the international community.” Those fleeing renewed their appeal to the UN, the Security Council and the international community “to intervene immediately to protect them and save them from a certain death that looms throughout East Jebel Marra”. Photo: The bomb craters in the burned-out centre of the village of Hemeda on a satellite image dated 21 March (SSP) Related: Five children die, many wounded in East Jebel Marra ‘offensive’ (15 April 2014) Unexploded ordnance kills three children in Darfur’s East Jebel Marra (13 April 2014)New satellite images show bomb craters, burned villages in Darfur’s Jebel Marra (27 March 2014)