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| Africa: Horn |
| Sudan Says Darfur Disarmament |
| 2004-07-04 |
| Sudan has started disarming Arab militias accused of sowing death and terror in its western region of Darfur and is confident the process will proceed smoothly, Foreign Minster Mustafa Osman Ismail said on Sunday. "It is under way," Ismail said, following his government’s pledge on Saturday to disarm the Arab "Janjaweed" fighters responsible for uprooting more than one million people and creating what the United Nations has called the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. But rebels said the operation was a cover for preparations for a new wave of ethnic cleansing. They said a large government force was being mobilized in the regional capital. Sudan’s promise has been greeted with skepticism by some human rights groups, which have joined U.S. officials in accusing the militia of carrying out ethnic cleansing campaign against black Africans. Underlining that skepticism, the rebel Sudanese Liberation Movement (SLM) said it feared Khartoum planned a new offensive from Nyala, the capital of Southern Darfur state. "The movement knows that under the cover of what is being termed ’the disarmament of the Janjaweed’, the government is preparing a new ethnic cleansing push after the mobilization of a large force from Nyala," the SLM said in a statement. How do you say "Hudna" in Sudanese? |
| Posted by:Seafarious |
| #3 South of Lybia,Southwest of Egypt.Follow the Nile and you will find it. "rebels said the operation was a cover for preparations for a new wave of ethnic cleansing." Yeap,watch and see.They are going to kill/rape/cleanse as many people as the can as fast as they can.Before the world takes notice. Forlorn hope,but I hope there is a MEU & airwing standing by. |
| Posted by: Raptor 2004-07-04 10:52:13 PM |
| #2 War is God's way of teaching Americans geography. --Ambrose Bierce |
| Posted by: Quana 2004-07-04 6:40:13 PM |
| #1 I'm too frickin' lazy to go look at a map. Guesstimating where to put Sudan...I think I got it wrong. Ignorant American, dontcha know... |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2004-07-04 4:44:45 PM |