Fighting in Sudan's Darfur kills more than 100 - U.N.

[Xaaji Xunjuf]

Fighting in Sudan's Darfur kills more than 100 - U.N.

 

Wed, 16 Jan 2013 18:15 GMT

Source: Reuters // Reuters

 

A boy looks on in front of UNAMID peacekeepers as they stand guard during a visit by a delegation of Ambassadors of European Union to Sudan to a women development program centre funded by World Food Programme (WFP) at Shagra village in North Darfur October 18, 2012. REUTERS/Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah

 

KHARTOUM, Jan 16 (Reuters) - A surge in violence in Sudan's strife-torn Darfur region has killed more than 100 people and forced 100,000 to flee, the United Nations said on Wednesday, sharply increasing its estimates after weeks of clashes.

 

Fighters caught up in a dispute over control of a gold mine had set fire to more than three dozen villages in the north of the region, the U.N. Humanitarian Coordinator in Sudan, Ali AlZatari, said in a statement.

 

More than 100 people had died and around 70,000 people had been displaced by the fighting between rival Arab tribes that broke out more than a week ago in the Jebel Amer area, he added.

 

Another 30,000 people had left their homes after separate fighting between the army and a rebel group in the central Jebel Marra area that started late in December, the U.N. said.

 

Conflict has raged in vast arid region for almost a decade since mainly non-Arab tribes took up arms against the Arab government in Khartoum in 2003, accusing it of political and economic marginalisation.

 

Violence overall has ebbed since the massacres reported in the early days of the uprising. But the latest clashes have been some of the worst in the area for months.

 

"The largest concentration of displaced people is in El Sireif where thousands of people are in urgent need of food, water, shelter and medical attention," Zatari said in the statement.

 

Last week the United Nations said the gold mine dispute and the Jebel Marra fighting had displaced a total of 30,000 people.

 

Rebel divisions and a string of broken ceasefires have scuppered years of international mediation and several rounds of peace talks. Banditry has also spread.

 

Events in Darfur are hard to verify as Sudan restricts travel by journalists, aid workers and diplomats.

 

The International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants for Sudan's President Omar Hassan al-Bashir and other Sudanese officials to face charges of masterminding war crimes in Darfur. They deny the charges and refuse to recognise the court.

 

Human rights groups and the United Nations estimate hundreds of thousands of people have died in Darfur's conflict. The government says around 10,000 people have been killed. (Reporting by Ulf Laessing; Editing by Andrew Heavens)

[Xaaji Xunjuf]

The full Arabazation of Darfur is in full gear Omar hassan al bashiir will fight tooth and nail to keep Darfur in Check he rather lose his balls than lose Darfur.

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Don't you support this XX as an afro hashemite ?!

[Xaaji Xunjuf]

If it was led by by the legendary ahlu bait Mahdi Sharif Muhammad Ahmad al-Mahdi rahtilahu canhu, if it was him yeah i would support it. But not Bahiir from the Jacaliin tribe.

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Xaaji Xunjuf;908942 wrote:

If it was led by by the legendary ahlu bait Mahdi Sharif Muhammad Ahmad al-Mahdi rahtilahu canhu, if it was him yeah i would support it. But not Bahiir from the Jacaliin tribe.

so you support massacres if its carried out by the right people in your judgement?

[Xaaji Xunjuf]

Not Massacres its called fighting for survival i am always against massacres

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who is fighting for survival?? confused here. Darfuris are being killed for not being Arab enough, do you support that?

[Xaaji Xunjuf]

They have to accept islam Sudan is a Muslim country they have to follow the Sharia the law of the land.