4 injured in new militias attack on IDPs camp in West Darfur- rebels

October 20, 2007 (PARIS) — Four people are gravely injured in a new attack carried out by Sudanese government militias today against another displaced camps in West Darfur, a rebel leader said.

Abdelwahid al-Nur, the founder leader of the Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM), told Sudan Tribune that Khartoum backed militias raided Al-Humaydia camp near Zalengi, in West Darfur state.

This attack comes three days after similar attack on Darfur biggest camp of Kalma near the capital of South Darfur state where six people were killed and 14 injured.

The rebel leader said the attack started at 05:00pm and continued up to 09:00 pm local time.

He stated that “all these attacks occurred while the international community representatives and the African Union peacekeepers are just watching the National Congress Party committing all these crimes.”

Al-Nur urged the international community to intervene and to protect Darfur Internally Displaced Persons. He said UN and AU have the responsibility to protect these innocent people from what he described as “Final Solution”.

He further said these attacks come as an attempt from Khartoum to quell the voice of Darfur victims who are opposed to “the so called peace process.”

The underfunded and ill-equipped AU force has been overwhelmed in its efforts to quell Darfur’s bloodshed. A joint AU-U.N. force of 26,000 peacekeepers is due to takeover on Jan. 1, 2008. However some divergences on the nationality of the troops and the needed capacities persist and may delay the deployment.

Acccording to the United Nations at least 200,000 people have been killed and more than two million displaced in the conflict that has spawned what aid groups describe as the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.

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