
Violent Tribal Confrontations in Rada’a [Archives:2000/11/Front Page]
March 13 2000
In the midst of the continuing battles taking place in Rada’a, Ryam tribe recently fired several houses in Abass village with R.B.G weapons. The shelling resulted in killing of four persons, injuring 17, and destroying four houses. The Abass tribe retaliated with heavy shelling on the villages inhabited by the Ryam tribe. The details of casualties are not known.

Some officials allegedly are sympathetic to the other party. They believe that the military campaign was directed against one particular tribe, and soldiers plundered prisoners weapons and Qat farms.

There are some sheiks as mediators to solve the tension between the two tribes. They said that they could not appease the aggressive party, and that there was hope that they would reach a solution. One of the sheiks pointed out that the area registered from more than 375 clashes, but the authorities did not bother about solving those problems.
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