Police attack Darfur refugee camp

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Police drove through a Darfur camp for displaced people on Wednesday, smashing makeshift homes with their trucks, a UN spokesman and Amnesty International said.

It was the second alleged government raid in two weeks on El Geer camp, near Nyala in southern Darfur. Last week, security forces forced 8,000 of the camp's inhabitants to move elsewhere -- a relocation that was condemned by the UN and the US.

"In the early hours , four small truckloads of police drove into El Geer camp and they knocked over some of the shacks which the have constructed," said George Somerwill, a UN spokesman in Khartoum.

He added that UN staff in the camp were present when the police drove in and they heard the police fire shots in the air.

Taipei Times