SUDAN INSIGHT ALERT: Radio Dabanga - Darfur displaced: ‘Arms collection an excuse to dismantle camps’

19/6/2020: Radio Dabanga - Darfur displaced: ‘Arms collection an excuse to dismantle camps’

 Radio Dabanga report that, according to Yagoub Abdallah Furi, a representative of the general coordination of Darfur camps for internally displaced persons (IDPs), a weapon collections campaign conducted by South Darfur authorities, the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) are a “justification for dismantling the camps that stand as witness to the horrors of [al-Bashir’s] regime [which] gives government militias the greenlight to burn…camps in Darfur.”

 Furi said that South Darfur (military) governor Major General Hashim Khaled and the government “are fully aware the weapons are [only] in the hands of their tribal militias, who protect them and cover-up their crimes,” calling for militias to be disarmed. 

 Furi also said the UN-AU Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) and the government would be “responsible for the consequences of any hostile action by Khaled or any other government party,” with UNAMID “the only force entrusted with protecting and supervising the camps.”