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Sudanese raiders kill 100 in Chad Village
Sudanese cross-border raiders have massacred more than 100 villagers in Chad, Human Rights Watch alleged Thursday, expressing concern Darfur's violence was spreading.Survivors told the New York-based group that the massacre was carried out last month by the Janjaweed ethnic Arab militia Sudan's government is accused of unleashing on ethnic African villages where Darfur rebels might find support. The Sudanese government denies backing the janjaweed, but agreed to rein them in under a May 5 peace agreement. Violence, though, has only increased since the government and the main rebel movement signed the accord. "Sudanese militiamen are moving further and further into Chad and are looting and killing Chadian villagers," Peter Takirambudde, Africa director of Human Rights Watch, said in a statement. The massacre decried by Human Rights Watch came April 12-13, when Chadian security was preoccupied with an abortive attack by Chadian rebels on Chad's capital. Human Rights Watch, quoting witnesses, said 118 people were killed in four neighboring villages. Survivors said attackers surrounded and then shot or hacked to death unarmed villagers, according to the group. Attackers struck far from the camps in the April massacre, "in an area where there's almost no international presence (and) very little government presence," Human Rights Watch researcher Leslie Lefkow said in a telephone interview from Amsterdam, Netherlands. Posted by: ed 2006-05-26 |
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