Refugee Camps
People who were displaced from their homes fled to camps in Kass. Unfortunately, they did not escape the terror. “In February, gunmen riding horses and camels invaded the village of approximately 80,000 inhabitants, raiding the thatched huts and seizing people without explanation, according to the displaced residents. The invaders beat people, tied them up and pushed them in the gutters while making their way through the camps.” Eighteen people from the camp were taken captive. They were forced to pay blood money for the Sudanese officer that was killed in the camp two days earlier. “When I got out of my place, I found the streets filled with gunmen. I ran into a man, who said to me, ‘Your people killed someone and we want you to pay the blood money,’” said Sheik Sidig ( the chief of the attacked camps). The attackers’ response was that if the people of the camp did not pay, then the camps would be destroyed.