ANOTHER DARFUR REPORT:

Arab militias, supported by the Sudanese government, are crossing into Chad to attack local villagers and refugees from the Darfur conflict.

Aid workers have said 158,000 refugees from Darfur in western Sudan have fled to neighbouring Chad to escape fighting, which broke out in February 2003. . . .

“Human Rights Watch documented at least seven cross-border incursions into Chad conducted by the Janjaweed militias since early June.

“The Janjaweed attack villages in Chad and refugees from Darfur, and also steal cattle,” the New York-based organisation said in its statement. . . .

Human Rights Watch said the Khartoum government must take responsibility for the raids.

“The Janjaweed is the government’s militia, and Khartoum has armed and empowered it to conduct ethnic cleansing’ in Darfur,” the statement quoted Jemera Rone, the group’s Sudan researcher, as saying.

Stay tuned.