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MFDC says army killed civilians

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    An armed group fighting for the independence of Casamance, an area in southern Senegal, charged on Friday that 30 people killed by Guinea-Bissau's army during border operations late in January were civilians and not guerrillas, Lusa reported. Lusa quoted Ansoumana Badji, a Lisbon-based spokesman for the Mouvement des forces democratiques de Casamance (MFDC), as saying that the troops had killed "30 defenseless refugees" along the border on 27 January. Badji said Bissau´s involvement in the 19-year Senegalese conflict threatened "to destabilize the whole subregion", Lusa reported.

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