Sudan
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Narrator: Talk to the African Unions overstretched observers and they paint a picture of a ceasefire shot full of holes but getting busier by the day. The number of attacks is up threefold since September. They roll across the sun-scorched plains towards a village called Tabit; they'd heard there'd been some trouble. Government bombs did this, Tabit's schoolmaster says. Lobbed from an Antinov aircraft, they killed four locals, injured seventeen, incinerated seven compounds, killed animals. Shrapnel like this slices straight through mud-brick and straw.
As the United Nations continues to investigate whether genocide is being perpetrated in Darfur, 900 African Union monitors race around a region the size of France investigating ceasefire violations. Not much doubt what happened here, the Khartoum government frequently denies it uses planes to bomb.
Official: When we were here also last time, there were some Antinov planes circling. There were actually two Antinov circling above the village. And you can actually find there are seven craters within the village and then there is a road the other side of the village where you can actually find four more craters.
Narrator: So the government is the pariah yet again. Well, it's not that simple. This village is full of rebel soldiers from the Sudan Liberation Army. Eight were wounded in the bombing of Tabit. What happened here was an act of war. But it was an act of war provoked by the rebels to make the government look bad ahead of this week's peace talks. Questions like 'Who started it?' are circular but not pointless.
An hour away, the garrison town of Taweela. 80% of it's population has fled. Hardly surprising. In an early morning raid three weeks ago, 100 rebels killed 28 local policemen and occupied the town. The government bombed this place with Antinovs too, one bomb landed yards from a Save the Children clinic.
Hamad Yaya is leaving with his big extended family and adopted orphan children. They've had enough. Twenty more made homeless. The displaced of Darfur. Nearly 2 million of them altogether now, dying some estimate at the rate of a thousand a day.
Hamad: No Security, no medical, no medicine, no food and nothing for living.
Narrator: A last look around his abandoned home. Hamad says what driven him out is not the bombing but attacks by the government backed Janjaweed Arab militia. The raiders shot open his safe and emptied it too.
Hamad: And they stole all the cattle, sheep, and everything. They killed and robbed and fornicated with the girls and women. We have no freedom.
Narrator: No freedom because of the colour of their skin. Too black to live here. Hamad and his clan head west. There's a big camp for displaced people outside the provincial capital.
From north Darfur, 100 miles southwest across the Jebel Marra mountains, to Zalingi, west Darfur, in another camp for displaced people, Abdulkarim and his wife are walking into town to the hospital.
Abdulkarim: When my son went to the field, the Janjaweed shot him with a gun. I went to the government to complain but the government did nothing.
Narrator: Their son Mohammed is just 13. The gunshot wound was bad. It damaged his femoral artery. He's lucky to be alive. He's also lucky to be getting surgery. Most don't. This week alone, displaced people like Mohammed have been attacked in camps in all three provinces of Darfur. Security has deteriorated so badly that since the weekend, 360 000 people have been cut off completely from UN food aid.
Women are still the one's attacked most often. Rape is still commonplace.
Sudanese woman: We went to collect straw and we ran into 6 men. They kept us captive until midnight. They took everything from us: our donkeys, even our clothes. They took us one by one behind a hill, there they raped us. Now I have pain all over my body.
Narrator: The rapists and ethnic cleansers of Darfur are still at work despite the threats, despite three United Nations resolutions. The world's biggest humanitarian disaster is getting worse. Aid agencies say parts of Darfur are now too dangerous to operate in. With more ceasefire violations reported around Taweela just today, this 21 month long war is intensifying and international intervention has yielded little.
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Narrator: Talk to the African Unions overstretched observers and they paint a picture of a ceasefire shot full of holes but getting busier by the day. The number of attacks is up threefold since September. They roll across the sun-scorched plains towards a village called Tabit; they'd heard there'd been some trouble. Government bombs did this, Tabit's schoolmaster says. Lobbed from an Antinov aircraft, they killed four locals, injured seventeen, incinerated seven compounds, killed animals. Shrapnel like this slices straight through mud-brick and straw.
As the United Nations continues to investigate whether genocide is being perpetrated in Darfur, 900 African Union monitors race around a region the size of France investigating ceasefire violations. Not much doubt what happened here, the Khartoum government frequently denies it uses planes to bomb.
Official: When we were here also last time, there were some Antinov planes circling. There were actually two Antinov circling above the village. And you can actually find there are seven craters within the village and then there is a road the other side of the village where you can actually find four more craters.
Narrator: So the government is the pariah yet again. Well, it's not that simple. This village is full of rebel soldiers from the Sudan Liberation Army. Eight were wounded in the bombing of Tabit. What happened here was an act of war. But it was an act of war provoked by the rebels to make the government look bad ahead of this week's peace talks. Questions like 'Who started it?' are circular but not pointless.
An hour away, the garrison town of Taweela. 80% of it's population has fled. Hardly surprising. In an early morning raid three weeks ago, 100 rebels killed 28 local policemen and occupied the town. The government bombed this place with Antinovs too, one bomb landed yards from a Save the Children clinic.
Hamad Yaya is leaving with his big extended family and adopted orphan children. They've had enough. Twenty more made homeless. The displaced of Darfur. Nearly 2 million of them altogether now, dying some estimate at the rate of a thousand a day.
Hamad: No Security, no medical, no medicine, no food and nothing for living.
Narrator: A last look around his abandoned home. Hamad says what driven him out is not the bombing but attacks by the government backed Janjaweed Arab militia. The raiders shot open his safe and emptied it too.
Hamad: And they stole all the cattle, sheep, and everything. They killed and robbed and fornicated with the girls and women. We have no freedom.
Narrator: No freedom because of the colour of their skin. Too black to live here. Hamad and his clan head west. There's a big camp for displaced people outside the provincial capital.
From north Darfur, 100 miles southwest across the Jebel Marra mountains, to Zalingi, west Darfur, in another camp for displaced people, Abdulkarim and his wife are walking into town to the hospital.
Abdulkarim: When my son went to the field, the Janjaweed shot him with a gun. I went to the government to complain but the government did nothing.
Narrator: Their son Mohammed is just 13. The gunshot wound was bad. It damaged his femoral artery. He's lucky to be alive. He's also lucky to be getting surgery. Most don't. This week alone, displaced people like Mohammed have been attacked in camps in all three provinces of Darfur. Security has deteriorated so badly that since the weekend, 360 000 people have been cut off completely from UN food aid.
Women are still the one's attacked most often. Rape is still commonplace.
Sudanese woman: We went to collect straw and we ran into 6 men. They kept us captive until midnight. They took everything from us: our donkeys, even our clothes. They took us one by one behind a hill, there they raped us. Now I have pain all over my body.
Narrator: The rapists and ethnic cleansers of Darfur are still at work despite the threats, despite three United Nations resolutions. The world's biggest humanitarian disaster is getting worse. Aid agencies say parts of Darfur are now too dangerous to operate in. With more ceasefire violations reported around Taweela just today, this 21 month long war is intensifying and international intervention has yielded little.