11 persons were killed and more others wounded in various
violence incidents in Sudan's western region of Darfur in the past
week, the United Nations Mission in Sudan (UNMIS) reported on
Thursday.
In South Darfur, a group of armed Arab militia ambushed a
government police force on Sunday at Tiega, some 75 km north of
Nyala, killing eight policemen and injuring eleven others, the
UNMIS said in a statement.
On Monday, a group of armed Arab militia in two land cruiser
pick-ups fired indiscriminately while passing through Sani Deleba,
some 34 km southwest of Nyala, killing one villager and wounding
two others.
On Tuesday, unknown gunmen attacked and killed a soldier of the
government troops in the area of Domaya, northwestern Nyala.
The perpetrators took the soldier's assault rifle and fled, the
UNMIS said, adding that investigation by the police was under
way.
In West Darfur, two unknown gunmen entered the Hassa Hissa
refugee camp in Zalingei on Wednesday, shot and wounded an
internally-displaced person (IDP). The victim has been hospitalized
and is in critical condition.
On Tuesday, a security guard of a non-governmental organization,
was shot dead by a drunken soldier of the government troops while
on his way home in Kulbus, 100 km north of Geneina.
Meanwhile, Sudanese government reiterated its readiness to
resume peace negotiations with Darfur rebel groups at any time and
any place.
"The government is ready to talks with the rebel factions at any
time and any place, but the problem is how to bring the rebel
factions together to one place," a spokesman of the Sudanese
Foreign Ministry told reporters on Thursday.
The spokesman said that the rebel factions had different
positions on the location of next round of the peace
negotiations.
The spokesman noted that an international conference on the
Darfur issue, which is to be held in the Libyan capital Tripoli on
July 15-16, would determine the place and time of the peace
talks.
The Tripoli conference, which is to be co-chaired by the United
Nations and the African Union, will be attended by Sudanese
government officials, rebel leaders and representatives from the
five permanent member states of the UN Security Council and other
countries.
The Sudanese government signed a peace deal with one of the main
rebel groups in Darfur in May last year while the other rebel
groups refused to sign the peace agreement on the pretext that the
deal had not meet all their demands.
(Xinhua News Agency July 13, 2007)
