Sudanese police says no planned attack on Darfur camp

November 25, 2007 (KHARTOUM) — The South Darfur State police has denied report that it intends to use force to seize illegal arms from Darfur displaced in Kalma camp.

Reuters published on November 22, a notice addressed by south Darfur police to the African Union sector commander in the area giving Kalma residents three days from Wednesday to hand in weapons kept inside the camp.

The police commander, Maj-Gen Omar Mohamed Ali, denied that the police or any other security body intended to storm the camp.

Ali, told al-Ray Alaam that what was happening inside the camp was the result of internal conflicts between supporters of Darfur rebel movements.

Some of the camp’s 90,000 residents have already started to build road blocks to obstruct searches of the huge camp outside south Darfur’s capital Nyala, Reuters reported.

Following the wide distribution of notice in the camp, the spokesperson of Darfur IDPs, Hussein Abusharati, accused the Sudanese authorities of planning to dismantle the camps before the deployment of the AU-UN troops in the region.

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