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SLM Accuses Sudan Army of Killing Civilians
Rebels in western Sudan yesterday accused government forces of massacring civilians in a village in the remote Darfur region where they also claimed to have captured a town, killing 200 soldiers. The Sudan Liberation Movement said government forces on Friday killed 200 civilians, including children and elderly people, in an attack on Sorra village, and called for urgent help for thousands of people uprooted by the fighting. âIâm calling the international community to investigate this genocide immediately, and the very, very terrible humanitarian situation,â SLM chairman Abdel-Wahid Muhammad Ahmed Al-Nur said.
| Expect to be ignored. Despte its political correctitude, the International Community™ regards it as wog-on-wog violence. They only defend black people against white people, sorry. |
He said about 4,000 villagers had been forced to flee into the wilderness around another six villages near Sorra for fear of attack, joining hundreds of thousands of people uprooted by fighting in western Sudan this year. âPeople are living as if they are animals in the mountains and valleys. Nobody has sent anything to them,â he told Reuters by telephone from western Sudan. SLM Secretary-General Minni Arcuo Minnawi also told Reuters by satellite telephone the SLM had captured the town of Sherya, 70 km east of Nyala, the capital of southern Darfur. Government officials were not immediately available for comment. SLM forces had killed about 200 soldiers in the two-hour battle for the town, Minnawi said. âThe situation is quiet. Itâs under our control,â he said. Sixteen rebels had been killed in the fighting, he added.
| They sure do mow down the gummint guys in consistently large numbers... |
Posted by: Fred Pruitt 2004-01-03 |
