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Article: VOA NEWS: SUDAN EXPERTS SPOTLIGHT ROLE OF ARAB MILITIA IN ABYEI VIOLENCE

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June 24, 2008
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The Voice of America issued the following story:

By Darren Taylor

Observers of Sudan say the Khartoum government is actively pitting rival ethnic groups against each other in the oil-rich Abyei region. The area became the focus of international attention recently when forces from the Southern Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) and President Omar al-Bashir's government in Khartoum clashed. The conflict destroyed towns and villages, displaced thousands of people and raised concerns of a return to civil war in Sudan. Abyei is claimed by both the SPLM and the al-Bashir administration. In the third part of a five-part series on Abyei, VOA's Darren Taylor examines the roles of the ...

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