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2003-11-05 Africa: East

Sudan launches offensive against Darfour rebels

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Posted by Fred Pruitt 2003-11-05 00:01|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11131 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Since the start of the civil war that began in 1983 -- and which pits the African South against the Arab North -- the Khartoum governments on countless occasions have broken cease-fires with the southerners. Now the riverain Arabs who dominate the Sudanese political scene are pulling the same trick on an incipient rebel insurgency in Western Sudan. This time with the help of abbala (camel) and baggara (cattle) Arab tribes the Sudanese military are determined to crush the Islamized Africans from the Fur, Berti, Zaghawa and other tribes.

And to think, with just a handful of helicopter gunships and a dozen mercenaries the civil war in the south would have been over years ago, and in the present case the Sudanese military would turn tail and run like hell from Darfur.

Posted by Anonymous 2003-11-5 8:55:13 AM|| 2003-11-5 8:55:13 AM|| Front Page Top

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