Wednesday, April 18, 2007

Warplanes disguised as UN planes: Report

SUDAN'S government is using airplanes disguised as United Nations craft to carry out bombings in the conflict in Darfur, a newspaper citing a United Nations report said today.

The confidential UN report also said Sudan was violating UN Security Council resolutions by flying arms into the region.

The Times' story includes photographs from the UN report of a Sudanese armed forces plane. UN investigators said it had been whitewashed and had "UN'' stenciled on its wing and bombs laid out beside it.

It said that this and other planes were being disguised and used to bomb villages and transport cargo in Darfur, where bloody civil violence has caused a humanitarian crisis.

More than 200,000 people are estimated to have been killed and at least two million others displaced in Darfur since 2NEWS>COM>AU003.

Full Story: NEWS.COM.AU

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