Radio Dabanga (Hilversum)

Sudan: Displaced Killed, Four Injured When Returning From Farm

4 January 2013

Kalma Camp — Pro-government militias are accused of killing a displaced man and of injuring four others in Kalma camp, South Darfur, on Friday, 4 January.

Sheikh Ali Abdelrahman Taher told Radio Dabanga that several members of a pro-government militia group riding camels opened fire on the displaced as they were heading back from their farms.

The fatal victim is Ali Mohamed Ezzedine and the four injured are Abakar Yaqoub Abdullah, 35 years old; Abdul Rahim Khalil Khater, 35 years old; Isaac Abduzid Ahmed, 40 years old; and Mohamed Mahmoud Ahmad, 44 years old, according to the sheikh.

Taher expressed his "regret" that the displaced are exposed to murders, looting and assaults and that they not protected by the government or by UNAMID.

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