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Brutal Conflict in Sudan Brings Warnings by Bush and Annan
April 8, 2004
By SOMINI SENGUPTA
A conflict raging in Sudan came under heightened
international scrutiny yesterday as President Bush called
on the government there to rein in militias and the United
Nations secretary general, Kofi Annan, raised the alarm
about reported atrocities.
The timing of Mr. Annan's comments made them particularly
pointed. Ten years ago, when Mr. Annan was the United
Nations' peacekeeping chief, ethnic Hutu combatants killed
up to 800,000 ethnic Tutsi and moderate Hutu in Rwanda. The
massacres have come to symbolize the world's failure to
avert mass killings of shocking proportions.
Yesterday, Mr. Annan used a commemoration of the 1994
events to draw attention to the western Darfur region of
Sudan, where the country's latest civil war has pushed an
estimated 100,000 civilians west across the desert border
into Chad.
The refugees, who are black Africans, have reported attacks
by largely Arab militias affiliated with the Arab-dominated
government in Khartoum.
There are no accounts of what is happening in Darfur from
independent observers; the Khartoum government has refused
aid groups access to much of the region. But refugees in
Chad have told of being chased out of their villages, and
have reported killings and rapes.
"Such reports leave me with a deep sense of foreboding,"
Mr. Annan said at yesterday's commemoration, held in
Geneva. "Whatever terms it uses to describe the situation,
the international community cannot stand idle."
President Bush, who has tried to bring an end to a separate
civil war in Sudan, called on the Sudanese government to
end the attacks in Darfur.
"The Sudanese government must immediately stop local
militias from committing atrocities against the local
population and must provide unrestricted access to
humanitarian aid agencies," Mr. Bush said in a written
statement. "The government of Sudan must not remain
complicit in the brutalization of Darfur."
The other war in Sudan, which has pit Muslim Khartoum
against southern Christian rebels for nearly 20 years, is
beginning to show signs of a thaw.
Peace talks between the Islamist government in the north
and the Sudan People's Liberation Army, from the largely
Christian and animist south, have steadily inched forward.
A final accord is likely to bring the deployment of a
substantial United Nations peacekeeping force in Sudan.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/08/international/africa/08SUDA.html?ex=1082467999&ei=1&en=4221325c6946a001
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