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| 60 killed in Darfur clash |
| 2007-04-02 |
| About 60 people have been killed and 21 wounded in an attack on an Arab tribe in the war-torn Darfur region of western Sudan, the victims' relatives said. "We buried 23 people on Saturday and then during the night another 37 bodies were left in the morgue of Nyala hospital" in southern Darfur, Mohammed Hammad Jalali, a chief of the targeted Torjam tribe, told AFP. Thirteen people wounded are being treated in the provincial capital of Nyala and another eight in the nearby town of Kas, he said. Tribal members say gunmen riding camels and donkeys swooped down on their villages to steal livestock. Abdel Rahman Hasaballah, also from the Torjam tribe, backed up the casualty figures and added the relatives were refusing to retrieve the corpses and had assembled in front of provincial offices to demand better protection. Local officials quoted by the press said it was the work of a rival Arab tribe in the region, the Rzigat Aballa. "We think the Rzigat Aballa is responsible for the attack because it occurred in the area of recent clashes between the two tribes," said Mohammed Al-Ajeb, adding some 500 heads of cattle had been seized and driven northwest. Authorities had negotiated a truce between the two tribes in February after several earlier confrontations. Envoys from the United Nations and African Union on their last visits to Khartoum bidding to find a peaceful solution to the Darfur crisis warned against tribal rivalries complicating the search for peace. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 They understand tribal complications in Darfur but not in Iraq. Hmm... |
| Posted by: Mike N. 2007-04-02 00:49 |