Security forces kill three people in troubled Blue Nile area

October 26, 2022 (KHARTOUM) – Three people were killed in Ad-Damazin, in the Blue Nile region in south-eastern Sudan, on Tuesday.

The inter-communal conflict moved from Wad Al-Mahi to Ad-Damazin, amid fears that the tribal violence would expand throughout the region.

Ahmed Alomda Governor of the Blue Nile Region imposed a one-month state of emergency in the region and authorized the army, Rapid Support Forces (RSF), police and intelligence service in the region to take the needed measures to end the bloody attacks which led to the killing of over 250 people.

“A joint force of the army and RSF removed barricades built by tribal groups north of Ad Damazin and fired live bullets on them. They killed three people immediately and wounded five others,” Fakhr al-Din Alobeid, a civil society activist, told Sudan Tribune.

Alobaid slammed the excessive use of force against civilians by the security forces and accused them of committing widespread violations.

Sudan Tribune failed to reach officials for comment on the incident.

The army appointed Major General Rabie Abdullah, the former governor of West Darfur state, as commander of the Blue Nile military zone, last Sunday; shortly after protesters were able to storm the command of the 4th Infantry Division and burned the premises of the regional government.

The army has been deployed to several neighbourhoods of Ad-Damazin, and vital facilities The security forces also launched intensive campaigns to disarm the civilians and removed the barriers erected to obstruct the movement of vehicles.

Tribal groups in Ad-Damazin blocked the road leading to Sinnar state. They set up checkpoints and prevented those who fear for their lives from leaving the Blue Nile region.

(ST)