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Quote: JUBA, Sudan | A confidential report by the United Nations warns that the invasion by Sudan's military of the contested Abyei region could lead to “ethnic cleansing” if the tens of thousands of residents who have fled are not able to return. The U.N. human rights report - dated May 29 and marked “Not For Public Citation or Distribution” - said the north’s government in Khartoum might have carried out a premeditated military plan to invade Abyei when Sudanese Armed Forces, or SAF, troops moved in May 21. “The SAF attack and occupation of Abyei and the resultant displacement of over 30,000 Ngok Dinkas from Abyei could lead to ethnic cleansing, if conditions for the return of the displaced … residents are not created,” according to the report, which was obtained by the Associated Press on Friday. Expressing its “grave concern” about the escalating violence, the U.N. Security Council later Friday condemned Khartoum for seizing control of Abyei “and the resulting displacement of tens of thousands of residents.” It also called on the Sudanese Armed Forces to “ensure an immediate halt to all #####ng, burning, and illegal resettlement” in Abyei and asked both the north and the south to withdraw their military forces from the area. The Ngok Dinka is a black tribe that associates itself with Sudan’s south. The Ngok Dinka fled Abyei when northern troops and ethnic Misseriya - Arab cattle herders aligned with the north - moved in and looted homes. The U.N. report estimated that between 15 percent and 20 percent of the homes in Abyei were burned in what it called “deliberate destruction” and a violation of international humanitarian law. “By destroying their homes, #####ng their properties and inspiring fear and terror, over 30,000 Ngok Dinkas have been forcefully displaced from their ancestral homes, leaving the Abyei area now more or less homogeneously occupied by the Misseriya,” it said. Ethnic cleansing, the report said, is a purposeful policy designed by one ethnic or religious group to use violence to remove another ethnic or religious civilian population from certain geographic areas. The report said that the likelihood that all the Ngok Dinka residents can return to Abyei “is limited,” given the massive destruction of civilian property and the occupation of Abyei by northern forces. President Obama’s Homeland Security and Counterterrorism adviser, John Brennan, held meetings in Sudan’s capital of Khartoum this week to discuss deteriorating security conditions around Abyei. Princeton Lyman, the U.S. special envoy to Sudan, was in the southern capital of Juba on Friday and told AP that “people who fled out of fear will not be comfortable coming back” while the region is occupied by northern troops. “The key is for the SAF to withdraw with appropriate security arrangements from the U.N. Then we know people will be able to safely go back,” he said. North and south Sudan fought a civil war for more than two decades. The conflict ended with a 2005 peace agreement that also gave the south the right to vote for independence. That referendum passed overwhelmingly, and Southern Sudan is poised to become the world’s newest nation in July. However, tensions over Abyei - about 4,000 square miles of fertile land near major oil fields - has raised fears of conflict only weeks before the south secedes