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Thoughts on Yesterday's Rebel Attempt to Topple Khartoum
n recent weeks there has been an alarming spike in the violence in Darfur with government bombings in north Darfur where a school and marketplace were attacked leaving more than a dozen civilian dead and many more wounded. Among the those killed were 6 school children. The international community was further outraged when the government refused to permit UN aircraft to transport the wounded to a medical facility. After nearly 2 days, the seriously wounded children, including a little girl with a broken back were put in a car and driven about 8 hours over rough roads to an MSF clinic.
This week the rebel group JEM led by Khalil Ibrahim left the remote Darfur region -- moving in a convoy of some 700 vehicles from the Chad borderland toward the capital itself. That they actually reached the suburb area of Omdurman -- just across the Nile bridge from Khartoum is unprecedented and remarkable. No casualties have been announced yet but terrified residents reported heavy artillery fire. In the capital a curfew was imposed, and residents were ordered to remain indoors while armored vehicles and helicopters headed for Omdurman.
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"Security forces came early this morning and arrested Turabi," Awad Babiker, Turabi's private secretary, told Reuters.
"We don't know where they have taken him."
Forces arrested Turabi, 75, at his home about one hour after returning from a conference of his Popular Congress Party (PCP) in the nearby Sennar state.
Babiker said four top party members, including the PCP's political secretary Bashir Adam Rahman, have also been detained.
The arrests came two days after an attack on Omdurman, on the opposite bank of the River Nile from Khartoum, by the Darfur rebel Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) faction of Khalil Ibrahim.
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