Militia attacks ex-rebel camp in North Darfur

01/12/2014 15:01

Dozens of men were killed and wounded in Kabkabiya locality, North Darfur, on Friday, in an attack by militiamen on a military camp. Former rebels of the Justice and Equality Movement-Sudan (JEM-Sudan) are stationed at the military camp in Jebel Jeily. The camp was stormed by fighters of the paramilitary Border Guards and Central Reserve Police troops (Abu Tira) in what seems to be a retaliatory attack. According to Kabakabiya locality leader of JEM-Sudan, Hussein Sudan Jamil, the attack came after the vehicle of Border Guards Commander Abdallah Janga was ambushed on the Aramba-Kabkabiya road last week. “The son of Janga and three others were injured. The robbers then left, taking the vehicle with them in the direction of the military camp, heading to the north, towards a Zaghawa stronghold,” Jamil explained to Radio Dabanga. The JEM-Sudan faction, headed by Bakhit Abdelkarim (known as Dabjo), joined the Doha Document for Peace in Darfur in 2013. Last August, the ex-rebels were integrated into the Sudan Armed Forces. File photo: 25 August 2014: Troops of the Justice and `Equality Movement-Sudan (Dabjo faction) who were integrated into Government of Sudan military at Sixth Infantry Division Command in El Fasher, North Darfur (Hamid Abdulsalam/Unamid)

Dozens of men were killed and wounded in Kabkabiya locality, North Darfur, on Friday, in an attack by militiamen on a military camp.

Former rebels of the Justice and Equality Movement-Sudan (JEM-Sudan) are stationed at the military camp in Jebel Jeily. The camp was stormed by fighters of the paramilitary Border Guards and Central Reserve Police troops (Abu Tira) in what seems to be a retaliatory attack.

According to Kabakabiya locality leader of JEM-Sudan, Hussein Sudan Jamil, the attack came after the vehicle of Border Guards Commander Abdallah Janga was ambushed on the Aramba-Kabkabiya road last week. “The son of Janga and three others were injured. The robbers then left, taking the vehicle with them in the direction of the military camp, heading to the north, towards a Zaghawa stronghold,” Jamil explained to Radio Dabanga.

The JEM-Sudan faction, headed by Bakhit Abdelkarim (known as Dabjo), joined the Doha Document for Peace in Darfur in 2013. Last August, the ex-rebels were integrated into the Sudan Armed Forces.

File photo: 25 August 2014: Troops of the Justice and `Equality Movement-Sudan (Dabjo faction) who were integrated into Government of Sudan military at Sixth Infantry Division Command in El Fasher, North Darfur (Hamid Abdulsalam/Unamid)