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Arab militia accused of killings

    NAIROBI

    An exiled spokesman for Massaleit civilians in western Sudan claimed in a statement issued from Egypt that government-supported Arab militia had caused death and displacement in escalating attacks over the last two years. The statement said that in February more than 50 people from the Massaleit village of Geriko, on the Sudan-Central African Republic border, were killed by attackers on horseback carrying automatic weapons. Victims included the minority Fur, Dagu and Senya. The statement complained of “a broader and deliberate policy to alter the ethnic opposition of the area at the expense of the non-Arab ethnic groups” in western Sudan.

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