(New York Times) Jan Egeland, the UN undersecretary general for humanitarian affairs and director for UN relief in Sudan, said Friday that Arab militias were conducting a campaign of ethnic cleansing to drive black Africans out of a border region of the country with the apparent tolerance of the Sudanese government. He said the armed groups were using "scorched earth tactics," deliberately destroying food and humanitarian supplies and attacking refugee centers in a program of "systematic depopulation."
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