South Darfur/ Manawashi market (Near Nyala)
Once more unrestrained fighting with kalashnikovs between government military and paramilitary forces has caused death, injuries and destruction to civilians.
Apparently one soldier in the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) and a member of the Popular Defence Force (PDF) had a quarrel in Manawashi over a mobile phone battery. Each one returned to his unit and later two battalions, one from each side, clashed freely shooting with Kalashnikovs inside Manawashi market.
These clashes resulted in the death of three civilians; eight other civilians, including two women were injured.
Those who were killed:
1. Mohammed Musa Abdalla
2. Omer Abdalla Musa
3. Almahi Ahmedia
Those who were injured, including two women:
- Mohammed Abdalla Sheikh
- Sanaa Obeid
- Adam Mohammed Abdel Aziz
- Hassanat Haroon Abdalla
- Alshafei Ahmed Abdelrahman
- Fatima Idris Abdalla
- Ahmed Adam Haroon
- Ahmed Adam
SUDO (UK) calls on the Minister of Defence and the Commanders in Chief of the SAF and the PDF to take immediately disciplinary action against all those who fought in Manawashi. The SAF and PDF members involved in the fighting should be disarmed, be removed from Darfur, and dismissed from the force. All those found to have caused death, injuries or damage should brought to justice and punished.
Full compensation should be paid to families of those killed and to those injured. Compensation should also be paid to owners of damaged stores and goods.
Osman Munsour
SUDO Uk Coordinator
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