Well, it is a Muslim army. B Army-controlled Darfur town razed A Sudanese government-controlled town in Darfur has been burnt down and looted, the United Nations says.
The town of Haskanita is close to the African Union peacekeeping base which rebel forces attacked last week. The UN observer mission did not say which forces destroyed Haskanita. The Sudanese government has not commented. On Friday, rebels said Sudanese government troops were attacking the town in apparent retaliation for the destruction of the AU base. A statement issued on Sunday by the UN Mission in Sudan (Unmis) said an assessment mission to Haskanita on Saturday had reported "that the town, which is currently under the control of the government, was completely burned down, except for a few buildings". "The market area had been looted. Few civilians had returned in search of food and water," the statement said. It added that the civilian population had fled when the AU military base first came under attack on 29 September. Factions Ten peacekeepers were killed in that attack, which the commander of the AU-UN peacekeeping force blamed on a splinter group "who broke away from a faction called SLA United". At least a dozen armed factions currently operate in Darfur. Next year the UN and AU will jointly deploy the world's largest peacekeeping force - 26,000 troops - to Darfur. It will absorb the current force of 7,000 AU troops, which has been struggling to protect civilians in the region. At least 200,000 people have died in Darfur during a four-year conflict and more than two million have been forced from their homes. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/7032613.stm [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
