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Africa: Horn
Annan Hears Tales of Abuse in Darfur
2005-05-29
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan yesterday urged immediate action to end the Darfur crisis in Sudan after hearing accounts of destruction and abuse during a visit which he described as "heart-wrenching". On the second day of his tour of Sudan, Annan was confronted with the devastation caused by more than two years of fighting between ethnic minority rebels and government forces. He kicked off his trip to the western Sudanese region with a visit to Kalma, Darfur's largest camp for displaced people, where he listened to tribal leaders' accounts of human rights violations. Annan then went to Labado, a town which was largely destroyed in the fighting last year and where thousands of returned residents greeted him with desperate calls for relief and protection.

"Heart-wrenching," Annan piously told reporters in Khartoum, upon returning from his whirlwind tour of Darfur. "Obviously, everybody says it's better than it was last year but this is not a situation that can be acceptable for long," he said. "We do not want to see a situation where they (the displaced) are in camps for years and years and years... So it is very urgent that we take the right steps and ensure we get them back to their villages."
Posted by:Fred

#1  Annan's pious blather really pisses me off. What planet has he lived on for the last 18 months.
Posted by: phil_b   2005-05-29 03:56  

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