Woman Shot Outside Ardamata Refugee Camp; No Action Taken by AU Troops

Posted on December 7, 2006
Filed Under Evil Terrorists, Darfur |

November 19, 2006

A woman and three girls were attacked earlier today while returning to the Ardamata refugee camp. The woman, identified as Khadija Abaker, age 40, was shot in the back and is in critical condition.

According to witnesses who asked not to be named, the attack took place in the area of the destroyed village of Milabider, about 15 kilometers directly east of Al-Genina town, at about 12 noon local time. The group had just finished loading their donkeys with firewood and dried grass intended for animal fodder when they were stopped by a member of the Janjaweed militia who was armed with an AK-47 assault rifle.

The man insulted Ms. Abakar and the girls in Arabic, calling them ‘khedam’ (slave). Ms. Abakar responded in the Massaleit language, at which point he ordered her to speak only in Arabic. It is unclear whether the woman knew how to speak Arabic, but she continued to speak in Massaleit as she and the girls attempted to leave.

The man then shot Ms. Abakar in the back. The girls said that the bullet exited her body below the chest and she fell to the ground.

The remaining girls in the group fled the scene and ran to the African Union barracks in Ardamata camp, where they reported the shooting to the soldiers on duty. Witnesses reported that no African Union troops went to investigate, although they had assured the girls that they would do so.

A resident of the camp, who identified himself only as Mr. Khatir, said that he and three other men went to find the victim. They were able to bring her back to Ardamata in a donkey cart. From there she was transported to Al-Genina hospital, where she remains.

Ms. Abakar is a mother of three. The girls who were accosted with her are aged 16, 19, and 23. The four are related to each other and from the same village, although their exact relationship is unclear.

(Damanga)

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6 Responses to “Woman Shot Outside Ardamata Refugee Camp; No Action Taken by AU Troops”

  1. tsedek on December 7th, 2006 7:51 pm

    This can happen just like that :( Who is there to hold the shooter responsible? Who is there to avoid more of these ‘incidents’? Where is the world? What happened to ‘us’? :( We were created humans and turned into the worst of beasts :( What happened to men??

  2. The Raccoon on December 7th, 2006 8:23 pm

    Tsedek - hunams are pretty vile beasties, generally speaking. Always were. Nothing in particular happened to hunams… frankly, the animal hunams resemble the most socially is your common rat. Read up on them a bit, the similarities are fascinating.

    I got so used to hunam behavior that stories like this one do nothing to me - it’s yet another corpse in a long, long line. It’s not that I don’t care, I am just unmoved by it emotionally.

  3. The Raccoon on December 7th, 2006 8:27 pm

    Oh… and the solution is action, raising awareness, playing on people’s emotions. Emotions are useful - they make people easier to move in the needed direction. Which is why telling stories like these is important:

    “One death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic” - Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin.

    People respond to tragedies much better than to statistics.

  4. Not Your Mama on December 7th, 2006 10:21 pm

    Sad but Raccoon speaks the truth. A foul species we are.

    …and yet….we always seem to produce a few who are better. Maybe it isn’t much to pin ones hopes upon but it’s all I have.

  5. The Raccoon on December 7th, 2006 11:24 pm

    NYM -

    There is an interesting theory that the hunam species advances through the actions of individuals - mutants, if you wish. People who are uniquely intelligent, uniquely evil, uniquely compassionate, uniquely wise.
    I tend to agree.

  6. Not Your Mama on December 8th, 2006 5:57 pm

    I’ve believed that for many, many years, I didn’t realize that there was an actual “theory” out there but then again like the saying goes “there is nothing new under the sun”.

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