U.N. Says Sudan Terrorizing Civilians

U.N. Says Sudan Terrorizing Civilians: "The Sudanese army and government-backed militias are committing acts of 'inexplicable terror' against civilians, including children, in Darfur, the U.N.'s top humanitarian official said Saturday.

Spiraling violence in the conflict-wracked region of western Sudan is reaching its worst level since fighting erupted more than three years ago, Jan Egeland, the U.N. undersecretary-general for humanitarian affairs said.

'The government and its militias are conducting inexplicable terror against civilians,' he said in an Associated Press interview just after returning from his final trip to the area before his term as U.N. humanitarian chief ends in December.

'The government is arming Arab militias more than ever before ... the angst is that we may be reverting to the same level of violence' as in 2003, he said."

(Via Salon.)