More than 100 women have been raped in a single attack carried out by Arab militias in Darfur in western Sudan. Speaking to the BBC, the United Nations co-ordinator for Sudan, Mukesh Kapila, said the conflict had created the worst humanitarian situation in the world. He said more than one million people were affected by "ethnic cleansing". He said the fighting was characterised by a scorched-earth policy and was comparable in character, if not in scale, to the 1994 Rwandan genocide. "It is more than just a conflict. It is an organised attempt to do away with a group of people," he said.
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/3549325.stmUN Slams Sudan War, Says Killings Recall RwandaNAIROBI (Reuters) - Pro-government Arab militias in western Sudan's Darfur region are carrying out systematic killings reminiscent of the Rwandan genocide, a U.N. official said on Friday.
"We have a vicious war going on which is leading to the violation of human rights on a scale comparable to historic situations, increasingly for example Rwanda," Mukesh Kapila, U.N. humanitarian coordinator for Sudan, told reporters.
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