Assaults on South Darfur El Salam camp population continue

More than 120 residents of the El Salam camp for the displaced were robbed on the Nyala-El Salam camp road in South Darfur on Sunday. Government-backed militiamen in three Land Cruisers and on eight horses on Sunday ambushed three commercial vehicles and five horse carts on their way from Nyala to El Salam camp, Sheikh Mahjoub Adam Tabaldiya of El Salam camp told Radio Dabanga. “The Janjaweed assaulted and robbed the passengers of all their belongings. They severely beat the men and women with whips, injuring some of them. They stole seven mobile telephones, SDG150,000 ($26,165) from Yahya Abdel Rahman, and SDG70 ($12,20) from Adam Abdallah, along with ten sacks of sugar, eight boxes of sweets, ten boxes of biscuits, nine boxes of sweets from Daoud Omarm, and ten iron beds with ten mattresses belonging to merchant Eisa. Sheikh Tabaldiya holds the government of South Darfur State responsible for the assaults on civilians in the state. He reiterated his appeals to Unamid to intensify its patrols on the Nyala-El Salam camp road, and called on the Sudanese government to immediately” stop the violence in the region. File photo: Militiamen in Darfur (Beliefnet) Related:18,000 newly displaced arrive at South Darfur camps; militias surround El Salam (3 March 2014)Organisations suspend aid in South Darfur’s El Salam camp (19 January 2014)Army troops’ abuses continue in South Darfur’s El Salam camp (17 January 2014)