According to the New York Times,
Dozens of people were killed and more than 100 were injured Monday in a government assault on a huge camp for displaced people in Darfur, the conflict-riddled region in western Sudan, according to witnesses and leaders at the camp...
Hussein Abu Sharati, a spokesman for the roughly 90,000 displaced people living in the camp, said dozens o
f heavily armed vehicles operated by Sudanese security forces surrounded the camp at dawn and opened fire.
The Sudanese police released a statement in Nyala on Monday saying that the operation had been carried out to seize weapons stored at the camp. It contended that Darfur rebel groups were planning to use the weapons to carry out assassinations...
The United Nations said in a statement that it was “gravely concerned” about reports of attacks on civilians in the camp. But aid officials and displaced people expressed dismay that nearby peacekeeping troops, part of a joint mission of the United Nations and the African Union, did not intervene.
According to the Sudan Tribune,
The US condemned the attack by Sudanese forces on a refugee camp in South Darfur during dawn hours today.
“Attacks on vulnerable populations in Sudan are deplorable and violate international law” the US State department Deputy spokesman Robert Wood said in a statement today.
Washington accused Khartoum of indiscriminately firing at the IDP’s and reminded parties to Darfur conflict “of their commitment to peace under the Darfur Peace Agreement (DPA)”.
“We call on the Government of Sudan to thoroughly investigate this incident and ensure that such actions are not repeated” the US said.
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