Darfur militias 'kill children'

Militias backing Sudan's government have killed at least 63 people in attacks in Darfur in the past week, African peacekeepers say.

At least 27 of the victims are thought to be children under the age of 12.

The attacks were on camps for the displaced in the rebel stronghold of Jebel Moon, in West Darfur.

The government says it is disarming the Janjaweed militia but a BBC correspondent in Sudan says all the evidence points to the exact opposite.

United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan has urged the Sudanese government to restrain the militias following the attacks.

Terrified

Militia wearing government uniforms, on camels and horseback, swept into eight villages and camps in Jebel Moon on 29 October.

The African Union (AU) investigation team has just returned from the area to make its report. >>>cont
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Dying from neglect Grim life waiting for peacekeepers and aid workers

By Jonah Fisher BBC News, Darfur

A return to the bombing campaigns has left thousands more displacedTawilla town is completely empty. Its dust roads still and quiet.

Repeated attacks from pro-government Janjaweed militia have forced the residents to leave.
Some fled for miles, others moved the short distance to the edge of the AU peacekeepers' base where they huddle close to its barbed wire fence.

On a small hill in between the camp and a government position, about 30 men with white robes and caps are gathered. They are digging a grave for a two-year-old girl.

Laid out on the red sand is her frail body - wrapped in cloth and a plastic grain sack. She died without ever seeing a doctor.

"I think she had a liver problem," said her father, Adam Abdel Majid. "I tried everything to get her medicine but there is nothing here." >>>cont

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