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The perpetrators were not identified. Also on 18 October, a group of 30 armed and uniformed
Fur men reportedly ordered shopkeepers in a Kalma market to close. They shot in the air,
destroyed some shop displays and provoked civilians to flee. On 19 October, the same group
returned in greater number and beat civilians. On 20 October, groups of men armed with riffles
and children armed with sticks from the Fur community organized in four sectors of the camp,
where they implemented road blocks between the sectors to control the movement of IDPs along
tribal lines, beating and arresting those from outside the Fur community. Additional reports were
received that Zaghawa and Massaliet IDPs were detained and beaten by armed Fur men and
children. Also on 20 October armed men reportedly fired in a market, killing one person and
wounding another. On 22 October, an IDP who entered the camp to collect his personal
belonging was reportedly captured by a group of children, tied and beaten. He was released with
orders to return to the camp.
Between 16 and 17th October 2007, tribal gunfights between Dajo-Massalit linked to a
political conflict between Sudanese Liberation Army/Minni Minawi (SLA/MM) (Massalit/Zaghawa) and Sudanese Liberation Army/Abdul Wahid (SLA/AW) - (Fur/Dajo) were
reported to have resulted in two wounded from Dajo tribe. On 16th October, a shop in Kalma
camp market belonging to a Dajo IDP was reported looted and the owner seriously beaten. The
same day, two youths from Dajo tribe were reportedly kidnapped. Reports were received on the
build-up of armed Massalit. On 18 October, gunshots were reported and humanitarian agencies
decided to evacuate the camp. The same day, information was received on the massive arrival of
SLA/MM elements in the camp from Labado area. In the evening of 18 October, reports were
received on the exchange of fire and in the early morning of 19 October, AMIS sent a patrol to
Kalma and discovered that Government of the Sudan (forces including military and police
components) entered the camp with around 30 vehicles. According to sources, this operation
provoked a minimum of 17 wounded, one IDP killed and the burning of approximately
175 IDPs’ structures (shelters) as well as facilities belonging to INGOs. Damage was reported on
an INGO clinic, INGO offices, an INGO community centre and the Kalma social center. There
were also indications that a large number of children have gone missing.
Assessment of Implementation of Recommendation 1.1.1
Implementation seems to have begun, to the extent that in October 2007, the Government
indicated that it had issued and circulated rules to enforce discipline in the Sudanese Armed
Forces. The information received indicates that attacks have been ongoing, between June and
September 2007. At the time of writing of the present report, it was still premature to assess
whether the Armed Forces orders issued in October were having any real impact at ground level.
The above Code of conduct issued to the armed forces partially implements
recommendation 1.1.1. It prohibits the following actions: making civilians or civilian objects the
object of attacks (see item 5, line 5). The code also does not specifically prohibit indiscriminate
attack. The Code also refers in item 7 above that immunity would be waived for bearers of
command responsibilities.
Recommendation 1.1.1 recalls that attacks against the civilian population can amount to a
war crimes and crimes against humanity. No explicit reference was made to such crimes in the
Code.
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