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Article: Fears that Sudan, Chad use rebels to fight proxy war; UN peace deal is a world away from reality of rebel recruitment and cross-border raids feeding conflict between the two countries, writes Edmund Sanders.(Dispatches)
- Article from:
- The Sunday Independent (South Africa)
- Article date:
- June 25, 2006
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At first glance, the hillside plateau above the Sudanese border in eastern Chad appears to offer little more than prickly scrub brush and grazing cattle. It would be easy to drive past without noticing much at all.
But look closer and the desolate terrain begins to come to life, slowly revealing a massive encampment. Those piles of rocks dotting the mountain? Man-made reinforcements for a network of foxholes. Peek into the bushes, and Sudanese rebel fighters peer back. Shade your eyes against the sun's glare, and the silhouettes of rifle-wielding watchmen appear along the mountain-tops.
The camp is the newest training ground of the Sudan Liberation ...