May 18, 2007 5:03 am US/Eastern
U.N. Report: 100 Dead In Latest Darfur Attacks
GENEVA (AP) ―
Sudanese security forces took part in a series of attacks on villages in the southern Darfur region in which more than 100 people including civilians were killed, according to a U.N. report issued Friday.
The office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights said members of the country's Border Intelligence Guards participated in eight raids carried out between January and March by the Rizeigat Abbala group against members of the rival Tarjum tribe.
The 10-page report says witnesses described hundreds of heavily armed men, mostly dressed in uniform, attacking villages with machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades.
"Despite clear and consistent evidence gathered between January and March 2007 that members of government security forces were involved in the attacks, the government did not take effective action to prevent the attacks, controls members of its security forces and use of its equipment, pursue the attackers or intervene to protect civilians," the report says.
It calls on the Sudanese government to investigate the incidents and act to protect civilians from attacks.
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