SUDAN'S government is using airplanes disguised as United Nations craft to carry out bombings in the conflict in Darfur, a newspaper citing a United Nations report said today.The confidential UN report also said Sudan was violating UN Security Council resolutions by flying arms into the region. The Times' story includes photographs from the UN report of a Sudanese armed forces plane. UN investigators said it had been whitewashed and had "UN'' stenciled on its wing and bombs laid out beside it. It said that this and other planes were being disguised and used to bomb villages and transport cargo in Darfur, where bloody civil violence has caused a humanitarian crisis. The release of the report came after Sudan on Monday agreed following months of delays to let 3000 UN personnel plus helicopters into Darfur to support under-equipped African Union forces trying to stabilize the region.
The UN report, released by a diplomat from a Security Council member nation, said forces on the rebels' side were also guilty of violating UN resolutions and humanitarian standards. It called for a tightening of a Security Council arms embargo on Sudan, the newspaper said.