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Friday, December 11, 1998 Published at 00:40 GMT
World: Africa
Millions dead in Sudan civil war
All sides are accused of human rights abuses
The ongoing civil war in Sudan has caused the deaths of nearly two million
people since 1983, according to a humanitarian agency.
The agency, the United States Comittee for Refugees, said that the fight for
control of southern and central Sudan had killed one in five of the southern
Sudanese population - either by warfare, war-induced famine or direct
government or rebel policies.
Jeff Drumtra, a senior policy analyst with the organisation said the death
count was "a fairly conservative estimate".
Many children have known nothing but war
More than 70,000 people died in the first six months of this year alone the
report said.
The figures were compiled from dozens of documents and reports by many of the
40 aid agencies operating in Sudan.
About 80% of southern Sudan's estimated five million people have been displaced
at one time or another since 1983 by fighting between rebels from the animist
and Christian south, and forces loyal to the government of the Arab and Islamic
north.
The report said 350,000 people were also living as refugees in neighbouring
countries.
Atrocities
The report said that both the government and rebel forces had committed
atrocities against the local population.
Fighting hampers relief efforts
But it blamed the former for the bulk of the human rights abuses.
"Sudan's civil war has been characterised by an incremental ferocity that has
left untouched practically no one in southern Sudan," it went on.
The government had systematically blocked food supplies to the south, attacked
villages and driven large groups of people to areas where they could not
survive, it said.
"These are not people killed in crossfire," said Mr Drumtra.
"It's a very deliberate strategy on the part of the government of Sudan to
depopulate large parts of southern Sudan."
"What is going on in Sudan, and what has been going for the past 15 years is
virtually unprecedented in terms of the devastation to human lives, property
and society in the south," he said.
"Even by the standards of Africa, even by the standards of war ... this loss of
life and destruction of economy and society is far beyond the line."
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