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| Africa: East |
| Darfur rebels say Sudan broke the truce ... |
| 2003-11-23 |
| Seems consistent enough with their previous behavior ... Rebels in western Sudan accused the government Saturday of violating a truce with airstrikes and militia raids that killed 30 people, mostly civilians. Those would of course be the "military targets." The government said it knew nothing of the attacks in the arid Darfur area, where the rebels of the Sudan Liberation Movement/Army (SLM/A) emerged as a fighting force in February, saying Khartoum had marginalized the impoverished region. "Lies! All lies!" "It’s been very bad. Attacks by government militias and the air raid have killed 30 people and lots of livestock," SLM/A Secretary-General Minni Arcua Minnawi told Reuters by phone from western Sudan. Minnawi said 24 of the dead were civilians and the rest rebel fighters. He said the attacks had started on Thursday and continued into Saturday in the west of Northern Darfur state, about 850 kilometers west of Khartoum. "They used an Antonov airplane to bomb civilians areas today (Saturday)," he said. In Khartoum, Internal Affairs Minister Major General Abdel Rahim Mohamed Hussein said he had not heard of any attacks in the area. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |