Posted on 10/10/2006 6:42:54 PM PDT by Prime Choice
KHARTOUM, Sudan -- Four aid workers were attacked in Sudan's Darfur region, beaten and given death threats, an official from the Medecins Sans Frontieres medical organization said on Tuesday.
The MSF France team was attacked by around a dozen masked, armed men on a road between Zalingei and Nertiti near the violent central Jabel Marra region in Darfur on September 11.
Three Sudanese staff were beaten and one international female staff was sexually harassed, MSF deputy head of mission Marc Galinier said.
"They [the attackers] said we don't want any foreigners here," Galinier told Reuters. He said MSF France had limited its movement in the area since the attack.
"These attacks have become more and more frequent in recent months and have the effect of limiting humanitarian access," he said. "The humanitarian community take enormous risks."
Tens of thousands have been killed and 2.5 million forced to flee their homes during 3-1/2 years of fighting in Darfur. Mostly non-Arab rebels took up arms in early 2003 accusing central government of neglect.
Ensuing rape, pillage and murder created one of the world's worst humanitarian crises and the world's largest aid operation involving some 14,000 aid workers.
Washington calls the violence genocide, a charge Khartoum refutes. The International Criminal Court is investigating alleged war crimes in Darfur.
MSF, a medical emergency agency, work in some of the most hostile conflict areas of the world. In Darfur their various branches give vital medical treatment to hundreds of thousands of war victims.
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The uncivilized barbarians of the world have learned that they can push the civilized world around. It needs to stop or it's going to get nasty beyond our wildeset nightmares.
Signs, signs everywhere the signs...
Need signs,"DO NOT FEED THE ANIMALS".
We all feel the urge to help others, but after hearing the personal horror stories of a few do-gooders in the peace corps overseas, I have to come to the conclusion that maybe we should concentrate on advancing OUR families and raising OUR children.
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