For the displaced people of Darfur, "the peace agreements are just ink on paper"
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In Chedad IDP camp in Darfur, 668 families have just arrived after their village was attacked five weeks ago.
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The western province of Sudan, ravaged since 2003 by civil war and genocide, whose violence has left more than 300,000 dead, is struggling to get out of the rut despite the fall of the dictatorship.
On Tuesday, the United Nations deplored the looting of one of the bases of its Minuad mission, whose mandate expired at the end of December 2020. Tribal violence is also almost daily.
RFI went to the Chedad IDP camp, where 668 families arrived after their village was attacked five weeks ago.
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With our special correspondent in the Chedad camp,
Sébastien Németh
They sleep under rags of clothing stretched out on pieces of wood.
The people of Fallujah have nothing left after fleeing their village in chaos and fear.
Aïsha Nour is in tears when she recounts
the attack
.
“
They stole our animals from us.
Four of them entered my home, beat me and chased me away, she
reports.
Today I have nothing left.
They burned down the village and blocked people inside.
"
Some of the villagers disappeared, others fled to the mountains, the wounded were taken to hospital.
And when we ask them who the attackers are, they all answer: “the Janjawid”.
these Arab militiamen were the armed wing of the genocide under the dictatorship.
Tragically ironically, the Chedad camp is already home to residents of the same village displaced after an attack in 2015.
Endless violence
Adam Mahamat protests against this endless circle in which non-Arab tribes are still victims.
“
There is no justice,
” he said indignantly.
Peace accords are all ink on paper.
We don't want a peace of death, a peace of graves.
Near Fallujah there is an army base.
But no one has moved.
It is the power of the Arabs
.
"
Another source of anger is the presence of a UN base of
the Minuad force
just 300 meters from Chedad.
“
We brought them a serious burn, but they refused to welcome us supposedly because of the Covid-19,
says Abdallah Adam, the head of the camp.
I kept the injured at home for a week.
The peacekeepers are right there.
Before, they often visited us, but now they shut the door in our face.
"
The UN mission has not had a mandate since the end of December.
Its withdrawal will be completed in June.
In the meantime, the displaced people of Chedad say they are abandoned by all.
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