Bishop Calls Darfur Situation 'Another Apartheid'
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Catholic Information Service for Africa (Nairobi)
June 18, 2004
Posted to the web June 18, 2004
Nairobi
A Catholic bishop from South Africa, after touring the situation in Darfur, western
Sudan, has likened the situation there to the apartheid practised by former South
African governments against black citizens.
Bishop Kevin Dowling, the chairperson of the Sudan Ecumenical Forum said that during a
visit to Sudan two weeks ago, he experienced the torture, mass killings and looting
being carried by the government on the citizens.
"The commander of the Janjaweed militia that is carrying out the atrocities is a
general in the Sudanese government army," Bishop Dowling lamented.
The Bishop, who was addressing a press conference in Nairobi Kenya on Thursday, June
15, 2004, said that his team was stopped from visiting some parts where the security
forces had just bombed villages using mortar fire.
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"If the war in Darfur is not stopped then the peace agreement in the South may not
have much effect," Bishop Dowling told CISA.
Melaku Kefle, a representative form the World Council of Churches (WCC), said that the
war in Sudan was not ethnic, but one of the government against part of its citizens.
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