So whose hand is being hidden, and what agenda is being advanced?
"Battle at Darfur camp kills dozens, refugees say" by Mohamed Osman, Associated Press | August 26, 2008
KHARTOUM, Sudan - Sudanese government forces attacked one of Darfur's largest refugee camps at dawn yesterday, killing dozens of civilians, according to rebels and a witness in the camp. Sudan's military acknowledged the raid but said soldiers had been searching for smuggled weapons.
A resident of the camp, Mandela Abdullah Mohammed, told the Associated Press by phone that he counted 32 dead, including several women and children. More than 50 vehicles "packed with armed men wearing police and security forces' uniforms . . . hit us with rocket-propelled grenades and machine guns," Mohammed said.
But a military spokesman said government troops were fired on first. The assault came as Sudan's president, Omar Hassan al-Bashir, faces genocide charges for alleged government-backed attacks on ethnic Africans in the country's troubled western region. As many as 300,000 people have died and more than 2.5 million have been displaced since a rebellion began in Darfur in 2003.
One struggles to make sense of this at the moment, as CUI BONO?
The timing is awfully strange for a government provocation.
Who knows what it could be. There could be US agents who fired out of the camps, it could have been US agents dressed uo as government, I mean, you know the games they play!
UN and US want to get in there, so CUI BONO?
The International Criminal Court is expected to decide within months whether to issue a warrant for Bashir's arrest. Kalma, about 15 miles from the South Darfur capital of Nyala, holds about 90,000 residents.
Sudanese soldiers stormed the camp, a sprawling mix of mud huts and scrap-plastic tents, and immediately opened fire on civilians, said Nimr Abdel-Rahman, spokesman for the Sudan Liberation Army, a Darfur rebel group.
He told AP by telephone from Darfur that 45 people were killed and 135 wounded. He was about 30 miles from Kalma but said the information came from witnesses and aid workers. "If government forces carry out more attacks against our people, the SLA is ready to confront and retaliate," Abdel-Rahman said.
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One figures the US must back SLA at some level; however, newspaper would never tell us. That's their function; leave you confused about barbaric Africans who can't live together!! I'm sick of that racist shpeel!!!!
Btw, the article's headline said "battle," but never got around to investigating whether the camps have weapons or whether they even fired back. A bit odd, don't you think?
Could these "refugee" camps also be bases for CIA and other dirty tricks organizations, readers? Is that why the suffering is never stopped, despite such hand-wringing by elites?
