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Sudan wipes out 100 villages in Darfur
According to reports received from pro-democracy activists in the isolated west Sudan state of Darfur, the "Jinjawid" Arab militia allies of the Islamist military dictatorship of Sudan have attacked around 100 villages in recent days burning all the grass huts to the ground. Thousands have been forced to flee the attacks against the unarmed villagers, adding to the around one million displaced men, women and children over the past months in what the UN has termed the worldâs current "worst humanitarian disaster".The front-man for the dictatorship, military General Omar Hassan Ahmed Al-Bashir had recently vowed on state-run television to "crush and wipe out" the pro-democracy rebellion in Darfur. With peace agreements being signed between the dictatorship and the main southern rebel movement, the SPLA at talks in Kenya, the regime has diverted its attention to seeking a military solution to the resistance against its brutal oppression in Darfur to the west. Aid agencies have been kicked out of the region, with the regime claiming they had no right to be there. As a result the humanitarian disaster is enourmous with disease spreading and many dying from fatigue and lack of supplies as they walk over large distances away from the raids by the Arab militia and aerial bombardments by the air force of the Khartoum dictatorship. Posted by: Dan Darling 2004-01-24 |
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