On Sunday, 168 people, including 6 teachers, were killed and dozens injured in the latest bloody clashes in the war-torn Karinak region in western Sudan’s Darfur region.
The coordinator of displaced persons camps in the region said that the security situation has become “complex and deteriorating in light of the ongoing attacks on the population and the ongoing serious violations of human rights.”
“The humanitarian situation is deteriorating due to the lack of medical services and the need to transport a large number of the wounded to hospitals located far from the area, which is very difficult in the circumstances,” Defense Ministry spokesman Adam Rijal said. Coordination, Sky News Arabia told, by phone from the current security zone.
The attack on the area began early in the morning, when the attacking militias used heavy and light weapons and carried out extensive arson and looting of a number of residential buildings and government buildings.
Activists considered the incident “a new addition to the crimes of genocide, ethnic cleansing, crimes against humanity and war crimes that have been taking place in Darfur for almost 20 years.”
Sunday’s events recreated the scene of a bloody war that erupted in 2003, killing more than 300,000 people and displacing some 2.5 million people, mostly children and women, who now live in camps lacking the most necessary. essentials.
The war was accompanied by massive violations, including rape and arson, prompting the International Criminal Court to issue arrest warrants for a number of leaders of the former regime, including the ousted Omar al-Bashir, who was ousted by a popular revolution on the 11th. April 2019.
Observers note that the current events in some areas are “one of the consequences of the lack of justice and the perpetuation of a culture of impunity.”
In the conflict areas, the population lives in extremely dangerous humanitarian and security conditions, as many families are in need of shelter, food and drinking water after their homes have been burned down and their livestock and property looted.
The Government of the Sudan is committed to strengthening security in all regions of the region; A commission was formed to investigate the recent events, but activists and civic organizations have strongly criticized the actions of the Sudanese authorities in connection with these events.
There are growing fears of a further deterioration in the security situation in Darfur in the absence of alternative hard agreements after the end of the mission of the joint UN-African Union (UNAMID) mission at the end of 2020.
As well as the terms of the peace agreement signed between the Sudanese government and a number of Darfurian armed movements, which provided for the formation of a joint force of 12,000 people equally between the Sudanese security forces and fighters of the armed movements, in order to ensure security in the region, have not yet been implemented.
