CHAD: MEDICAL WORKERS TREATING SUDANESE REFUGEES FLEEING FIGHTING IN EASTERN SUDAN SAY NUMBER OF PEOPLE TREATED FOR WOUNDS FROM ATTACKS BY GOVERNMENT BOMBERS HAS RISEN SHARPLY

Record ID: 275330

  • Title: CHAD: MEDICAL WORKERS TREATING SUDANESE REFUGEES FLEEING FIGHTING IN EASTERN SUDAN SAY NUMBER OF PEOPLE TREATED FOR WOUNDS FROM ATTACKS BY GOVERNMENT BOMBERS HAS RISEN SHARPLY
  • Date: 26th January 2004
  • Summary: (U4) TINE, NORTHERN CHAD (JANUARY 26, 2004)(REUTERS) 1. MEDICAL PERSONNEL HANDING OUT SUPPLIES 0.04 2. VARIOUS OF WOUNDED REFUGEES (5 SHOTS) 0.29 3. DOCTOR TREATING REFUGEE WITH INJURED LEGS (2 SHOTS) 0.43 4. VARIOUS OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN IN HOSPITAL (2 SHOTS) 0.54 5. MEDICAL STAFF CHECKING REFUGEES 0.58 I
  • Embargoed: 10th February 2004 12:00
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  • Location: TINE, NORTHERN CHAD
  • Country: Chad
  • Reuters ID: LVADJ368F7D2WFNOB6SJQQQDY9FL
  • Story Text: Thousands of Sudanese refugees flee flighting in
    Eastern Sudan, accusing the government of bombing civillians


    Medical workers manning the only field hospital in
    the northern stretch of Chad's border with Sudan, set up in
    September, say the number of people coming in with wounds
    from attacks by government bombers has increased sharply
    this month.

    Medics at the field hospital in the border town of Tine
    say they have seen 55 blast and shrapnel victims in the
    past two weeks, compared with less than 10 in the previous
    two weeks, while new arrivals trickle in virtually every
    day.

    Many of the injured trekked for days on camels or asses
    to reach the hospital, run by medical charity Medecins sans
    Frontieres, part of a tide of more than 35,000 refugees who
    have poured across the border since December.

    The attacks are part of a war in western Sudan that has
    escalated sharply since December, in contrast to progress
    made at peace talks on a separate, 20-year civil war in the
    country's south.

    Fighting erupted in Sudan's western Darfur region early
    last year after rebel groups took up arms to demand an end
    to what they say is government oppression of black African
    communities living in the impoverished area.

    The refugees tell of attack by Arab "janjaweed"
    militiamen who raid their villages on horseback at dawn,
    raping women and abducting girls and putting huts to the
    torch.


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