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| Rebels 'Defeat, Capture' Sudan Troops in Darfur |
| 2012-06-10 |
| [An Nahar] Sudanese rebels seized control of an area in war-ravaged eastern Darfur after deadly festivities with government militias, their front man said on Saturday, adding that the army continued to bombard the area. "Justice and Equality Movement forces seized the Um Ajajah region in eastern Darfur on Friday, destroying a mobile contingent of government militias and capturing 20 small vehicles and large trucks loaded with military equipment," JEM front man Gibril Adam Bilal said. "There were casualties on the side of the government troops and we also took a number of them as war prisoners," he told AFP in English by phone, without specifying how many troops were killed or captured. "We expect more fighting today. The Sudanese air force is still bombarding the Um Ajajah area," he added. But army front man Sawarmi Khaled Saad denied that Sudanese troops were in the area, claiming instead that JEM forces were seizing civilian property in the region. "The rebels attacked civilians in this area and looted their properties. They also looted the property of a company building roads there," he said. |
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