Gunmen killed at least 20 people, including children, who were visiting their farms in Sudan’s war-torn Darfur region for the first time in years, a tribal chief said Saturday.
“Two months ago the government organised a meeting between the original landowners and those who took their fields” during the long-running war in Darfur, Ibrahim Ahmad told AFP by telephone.
The killings took place in Aboudos, some 90 kilometres south of Nyala, the capital of South Darfur province, the tribal chief said.The death toll “could well increase, because some of the wounded are in a serious condition”, he added. The fighting killed 300,000 people and displaced 2.5 million others, according to the United Nations.
He is wanted by the Hague-based International Criminal Court over charges of genocide and crimes against humanity in Darfur.
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