Sudan kills refugees in Darfur
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Sudanese troops have opened fire inside a Darfur refugee camp, leaving 27 people dead, a rebel group has said.
Some 100 government trucks surrounded the Kalma camp, home to some 90,000 people who have fled their homes in Darfur, a rebel spokesman told the BBC.
There is no independent confirmation of the reports but international sources have been told that Sudan wants to disarm the camp's residents.
More than two million people have fled five years of conflict in Darfur.
Ahmed Abdel Shafie, who heads a faction of the rebel Sudan Liberation Army, told the BBC that the government wants to force people to leave the camp.
Another rebel leader puts the number of those killed higher. Abdel Wahed Mohamed al-Nur, said that 50 people had been killed.
"This really is a catastrophe. People are being killed while the world just watches," he said.
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Some 100 government trucks surrounded the Kalma camp, home to some 90,000 people who have fled their homes in Darfur, a rebel spokesman told the BBC.
There is no independent confirmation of the reports but international sources have been told that Sudan wants to disarm the camp's residents.
More than two million people have fled five years of conflict in Darfur.
Ahmed Abdel Shafie, who heads a faction of the rebel Sudan Liberation Army, told the BBC that the government wants to force people to leave the camp.
Another rebel leader puts the number of those killed higher. Abdel Wahed Mohamed al-Nur, said that 50 people had been killed.
"This really is a catastrophe. People are being killed while the world just watches," he said.
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khromadjo
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From the cold, murderous militias to their shadowy government officals, ethnic wars and staggering poverty, Africa is being bled dry by it's own people while other nations (China, France, Belgium, etc) twist in the knife, and still others (US, UK, the United Nations) sit back and watch with half-hearted concern.
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khromadjo
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JanforGore
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I wonder what country supplied the weapons? The same country that just hosted an Olympics and has gotten kudos for their pyrotechnical displays and their fountains with stolen water? We sit while people die just so China and other countries can have their OIL and clap because they put on such a good show in Bejing. Macabre and sickening. WHAT IS WRONG WITH US?
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JanforGore
