Radio Dabanga - East Darfur activists condemn RSF militia behaviour in Abu Karinka

8/8/2020: Radio Dabanga - East Darfur activists condemn RSF militia behaviour in Abu Karinka

 Radio Dabanga reports that Resistance Committees active in Abu Karinka locality in East Darfur have strongly criticised the violent behaviour of the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in the area.

 The Abu Karinka Resistance Committee alleges that the RSF move through residential areas and markets with their vehicles mounted with Dushka machine guns and other heavy weapons and provoke and ridicule the people, as well as intimidating the residents of the locality by using whips, shaving the heads of young men to degrade them, and besieging young women and girls at the markets and in cafes.

 They call on the local police chief, the commander of Abu Karinka garrison, and the director of Abu Karinka locality to intervene and stop the assaults as soon as possible.

 Radio Dabanga note that the forced shaving of heads is a common practice by the RSF  ‘to educate young people with western-style hair cuts’.