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قوات حركة العدل و المساواة تجتاح حامية الجيش بكرنوي و تطرد القوات المسلحة منها ....
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هل هي بداية تحرير دارفور؟؟!!
عندما توجه أي حركة مسلحة دارفورية سلاحها الي من يقتل أهل دارفور .. نحن معها .. و لكن أن يوجه السلاح ضد أي دارفوري ... نحن سنقف ضدها ... أي حركة مهما كانت ...
نقلت وكالة رويتر عن مسؤولين في الأمم المتحدة أن قوات حركة العدل و المساواة قد إجتاحت قاعدة الجيش السوداني بكرنوي .. و لاذ الجنود بالفرار هناك .. التفاصيل هنا:
Darfur rebels say Sudan army base seized Sun May 17, 2009 9:08am EDT
By Andrew Heavens
KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Darfur's rebel Justice and Equality Movement said Sunday it attacked Sudanese government troops in north Darfur, forcing them out of a strategic base in the latest of a series of clashes in the area.
U.N. sources confirmed Sudanese government soldiers were attacked Saturday afternoon in the town of Kornoi, which is on a key road, but no one was immediately available to comment from the Sudanese army.
The reports will stoke growing tensions in the volatile area which borders Chad. Sudan accused Chad of launching three airstrikes in north Darfur Friday and Saturday.
Diplomatic sources in Khartoum have said JEM may be planning a major offensive in Darfur, partly in retaliation for an incursion by Chadian insurgents into Chad earlier this month.
Sudan's government says JEM is backed by Chad, while Chad accuses Khartoum of supporting insurgents in its territory.
"JEM has taken Kornoi. We attacked a garrison there. We want to clear them out of the area," JEM leader Khaili Ibrahim told Reuters by satellite telephone, saying the two-hour battle had taken place late afternoon Saturday.
"We now control a very large area. JEM will proceed to control the whole area - the whole of Darfur, including the capitals (El Fasher, El Geneina and Nyala, the capitals of the states of north, west and south Darfur)."
Ibrahim said there had been casualties on both sides, but it was too early to release statistics.
Darfur's U.N./African Union UNAMID peacekeeping force said it had received unconfirmed reports of clashes between JEM and Sudan government forces at Kornoi -- but could not confirm them as it did not have a base in the settlement.
U.N. sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, confirmed there had been an attack, and said government soldiers had been seen retreating from the area.
"We can confirm an attack took place, an attack on Sudanese military forces. The attackers are now controlling that locality," said one U.N. officer. "We do not have information on who the attackers were or the number of casualties."
There have been signs that JEM has been re-arming and re-grouping. JEM clashed with former rebels backed by Sudan's government close to the town of Umm Baru earlier this month.
Kornoi and Umm Baru are just 50 km (30 miles) apart on a strategic route which stretches southeast from the Chadian border across north Darfur toward El Fasher.
JEM was one of two major insurgent groups which took up arms against Sudan's government in 2003, accusing Khartoum of neglecting the remote western region.
The United Nations says up to 300,000 people have died in the conflict, which escalated after government soldiers and allied militias set out to crush the rebellion. Other international experts have put the death count at 200,000 while Khartoum says just 10,000 have died.
JEM, which says it intends to control Darfur and the neighboring regions of northern and southern Kordofan, also launched a shock attack on Khartoum in May last year, saying it wanted to overthrow the government.
JEM has been holding a series of discussions with Sudan's government in Qatar. But they have so far not evolved into full peace talks.
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