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Sudan Strike Breaks Treaty

Army attack on town may signal wider blitz; 'serious risk of going beyond Darfur'

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(Newser) – Sudan's military struck a Darfur village today, torching half of it and casting October peace talks into crisis. The attack also hit the sole Sudanese Liberation Army faction to sign a truce in 2006. "If they really wanted peace and negotiations they would not be attacking our areas," says a spokesman for the faction. "We consider this a very serious development."

The strike may be an extension of yesterday’s attack on the town of Haskanita, which killed 105, Reuters reports. Other factions claim that government forces are about to continue the blitz in North Darfur rebel zones near Chad. "These reports when you put them together ... there is a serious risk of the Darfur situation going beyond Darfur," says a UN official.

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In this photo made available Monday Oct. 1, 2007, by African Mission in Sudan, showing seriously injured African Union (AMIS) soldiers being helped from Haskanita military camp, in Haskanita, Darfur, Sudan, to a waiting helicopter Sunday Sept. 30, 2007, to be evacuated for medical treatment. The camp came under sustained...
In this photo made available Monday Oct. 1, 2007, by African Mission in Sudan, showing seriously injured African Union (AMIS) soldiers being helped from Haskanita military camp, in Haskanita, Darfur,...   (Associated Press)
In this photo made available Monday Oct. 1, 2007, by African Mission in Sudan, a seriously injured African Union (AMIS) soldier is carried from Haskanita military camp, in Haskanita, Darfur, Sudan, to a waiting helicopter Sunday Sept. 30, 2007, to be evacuated for medical treatment. The camp came under sustained...
In this photo made available Monday Oct. 1, 2007, by African Mission in Sudan, a seriously injured African Union (AMIS) soldier is carried from Haskanita military camp, in Haskanita, Darfur, Sudan,...   (Associated Press)
Rashidat Ajao cries during the burial of her husband Private Toyin Ajao, one of seven Nigerian soldiers killed while on peacekeeping duty in Darfur and interred in Nigeria's main military cemetery in Abuja, Friday, Oct 5, 2007. Nigeria, the biggest troop contributor to African peacekeeping missions, suffered the heaviest losses...
Rashidat Ajao cries during the burial of her husband Private Toyin Ajao, one of seven Nigerian soldiers killed while on peacekeeping duty in Darfur and interred in Nigeria's main military cemetery in...   (Associated Press)
In this photo made available Monday Oct. 1, 2007, by African Mission in Sudan, an African Union (AMIS) soldier holds an African Union flag as he stands at the damaged Haskanita military camp, in Haskanita, Darfur, Sudan, after a rebel force attack Sunday Sept. 30, 2007. The camp came under...
In this photo made available Monday Oct. 1, 2007, by African Mission in Sudan, an African Union (AMIS) soldier holds an African Union flag as he stands at the damaged Haskanita military camp, in Haskanita,...   (Associated Press)
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