UN: South Sudan Violence More Deadly Than Darfur

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From Yahoo News/Reuters:

KHARTOUM (Reuters) – More people have died in tribal violence in post-war southern Sudan in recent months than in the western Darfur region plagued by ethnic and politically driven fighting, the United Nations said.

Hundreds have died, thousands have been displaced and scores of villages razed in the south, which was ravaged in a civil war with the north that lasted more than two decades. A peace deal signed in 2005 ended that war.

But in 2003, before the southern deal was reached, another conflict erupted in Darfur that the United Nations says has killed up to 300,000 people, though the government puts the number at 10,000.

"In recent months, the death rate in southern Sudan from violent conflict has been higher than in Darfur," the U.N. special representative to Sudan, Ashraf Qazi, said Sunday.

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My Comment: The war that occurred in South Sudan equals the carnage that has occurred in Eastern Congo during these past 20 years. The peace agreement signed in 2005 has kept the peace .... but with oil now being discovered in the region, violence and ethnic cleansing by the central government is reigniting old animosities and hatreds.