Kalma Refugee Camp Incident

Category: Genocide

By the summer of 2006, the terms of any cease-fire were forgotten by all parties. In July 2006, the Janjaweed gang-raped and murdered seven women who left the refugee camp of Kalma to get food. In the aftermath of the incident, the Sudanese government rejected the offer of 20,000 AU/UN peacekeeping force and demanded that it use government troops to “protect the peace” in Darfur. At the same time, reports of systematic rape - other than the aforementioned incident and numbering in the hundreds, mostly in the Kalma area- reached the UN Security Council . On August 25th, the US State Department warned that unless peace-keeping forces were immediately deployed to Darfur, the situation would become truly catastrophic. (not that it wasn’t already)
EV, SD