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 Re: رابطة ابناء دارفور بنيويوك ترحب تدخل عسكري الخارجي في دارفور (Re: nahar osman nahar)
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>The New York Times > International > Africa > Brutal Conflict in Sudan
Brings Warnings by Bush and Annan
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>April 8, 2004
> By SOMINI SENGUPTA
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>A conflict raging in Sudan came under heightened
>international scrutiny yesterday as President Bush called
>on the government there to rein in militias and the United
>Nations secretary general, Kofi Annan, raised the alarm
>about reported atrocities.
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>The timing of Mr. Annan's comments made them particularly
>pointed. Ten years ago, when Mr. Annan was the United
>Nations' peacekeeping chief, ethnic Hutu combatants killed
>up to 800,000 ethnic Tutsi and moderate Hutu in Rwanda. The
>massacres have come to symbolize the world's failure to
>avert mass killings of shocking proportions.
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>Yesterday, Mr. Annan used a commemoration of the 1994
>events to draw attention to the western Darfur region of
>Sudan, where the country's latest civil war has pushed an
>estimated 100,000 civilians west across the desert border
>into Chad.
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>The refugees, who are black Africans, have reported attacks
>by largely Arab militias affiliated with the Arab-dominated
>government in Khartoum.
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>There are no accounts of what is happening in Darfur from
>independent observers; the Khartoum government has refused
>aid groups access to much of the region. But refugees in
>Chad have told of being chased out of their villages, and
>have reported killings and rapes.
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>"Such reports leave me with a deep sense of foreboding,"
>Mr. Annan said at yesterday's commemoration, held in
>Geneva. "Whatever terms it uses to describe the situation,
>the international community cannot stand idle."
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>President Bush, who has tried to bring an end to a separate
>civil war in Sudan, called on the Sudanese government to
>end the attacks in Darfur.
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>"The Sudanese government must immediately stop local
>militias from committing atrocities against the local
>population and must provide unrestricted access to
>humanitarian aid agencies," Mr. Bush said in a written
>statement. "The government of Sudan must not remain
>complicit in the brutalization of Darfur."
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>The other war in Sudan, which has pit Muslim Khartoum
>against southern Christian rebels for nearly 20 years, is
>beginning to show signs of a thaw.
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>Peace talks between the Islamist government in the north
>and the Sudan People's Liberation Army, from the largely
>Christian and animist south, have steadily inched forward.
>A final accord is likely to bring the deployment of a
>substantial United Nations peacekeeping force in Sudan.
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ttp://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/08/international/africa/08SUDA.html?ex=10824
16495&ei=1&en=1abc103a6d103c11
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