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Article: Darfur crisis crosses borders; Violence threatens to drag Chad and the Central African Republic into a regional war.(WORLD)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- December 11, 2006
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Byline: Rich Schapiro Contributor to The Christian Science Monitor
GOZ BEIDA, CHAD -- For the past three years, Arab militiamen have helped Sudan's government quell a rebellion in Darfur by slaughtering the region's mostly black African population and leaving behind a trail of rape, murder, and destruction. The result: more than 200,000 dead and 2 million displaced in what the United Nations calls the world's worst humanitarian emergency.
At the very least, however, the violence in western Sudan was mostly confined to its borders.
No more.
The crisis in Darfur has exploded in recent weeks, and now threatens to drag fragile neighboring ...