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| Militia kill 21 in West Darfur: rebels |
| 2008-01-28 |
| Armed militias backed by Sudan's Government have killed 21 people in an attack on a village in West Darfur, anti-Khartoum Sudanese rebels said. Rebels blamed militias they said were headed by an army officer called al-Hadi Adam Hamid, but an army spokesman said it was unclear who had attacked Sureif Judad, a village about 17 kilometres north-west of the state capital el-Geneina. "They killed 21 civilians including old men and women and children and wounded four people," said Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) commander Abdel Aziz el-Nur Ashr. One el-Geneina resident, who asked not to be named for fear of reprisals, said that they personally knew three of the dead, who were all from the same family. "I heard they burned 90 houses," said the source, who learnt of the attack through friends from the village. The army said no houses had been burnt but they understood that around 20 people had been killed in the attack. "It's not clear who the unknown attackers were," an army spokesman said. "It could be the rebels who attacked." JEM's Ashr said the attack took place on January 22, but the army said it was about three days ago. |
| Posted by:Fred |