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05/09/2004:

"Sudan agreeable in south, murderous in west"

Haroon Siddiqui

Sudan evokes images of Muslim fundamentalists and Christian missionaries, the slave trade, oil skulduggery and civil war. Add ethnic cleansing to that unhappy mix. But just as the northern-dominated government in Khartoum and the rebellious south are negotiating an end to their 21-year civil war, a similar conflict has broken out in the west. Backed by federal helicopter gunships, bombers and troops, local militias in the Darfur region have looted, torched and depopulated villages. About 10,000 people have been killed, 1 million displaced and 100,000 forced to flee to Chad. www.thestar.com