Monday, October 23, 2006

Darfur rebels go on attack as all-out war looms


HAROUN Abdullah Kabir stepped from one bloodied corpse to another on the parched battlefield. He searched the soldiers' decomposing faces for an aquiline nose, fair complexion or fine, straight hair: telltale Arab features.

Instead Kabir, a field commander of the Darfur rebels fighting the Arab-dominated Sudanese Government, found among the fallen only the dark-skinned faces of southern Sudanese and Darfurians. He looked away in disgust...

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