Doctors Without Borders workers abducted in Darfur

[Neo Atheist]

Source: Associated Press

Five people working for humanitarian aid group Doctors Without Borders' Belgian office were kidnapped in Sudan's Darfur region, officials said Thursday, a week after the government in Khartoum ordered the expulsion of aid groups as a response to the International Criminal Court's decision to indict the president.

A spokesman for Doctors Without Borders' Belgian office, Koen Baetens, confirmed the abductions, but declined to provide further information because of the sensitivity of the situation.

Noureddine Mezni, a spokesman for U.N. peacekeepers in Khartoum, said the kidnappings took place Wednesday in north Darfur, about 125 miles (200 kilometers) west of al-Fasher.

Mezni said that six Doctors Without Borders employees were abducted initially from their offices in the Saraf Umra area, but one Sudanese worker was released Thursday morning.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090312/ap_on_re_eu/eu_belgium_darfur_kidnappings

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It's like Omar al-Bashir is intentionally trying to take the mantel of single worst human being in the world.

[Dorian Gray]

1. Damn...

I hope that they are okay. DWB is a wonderful organization, and the very fact that this happened in Sudan and the explsion of aid groups from Sudan is very sad.

[Neo Atheist]

2. What's sad is this isn't really that shocking this criminal regime

would engage in something so hideous. Along with their Muslim militia cohorts, they've already slaughtered hundreds of thousands of innocents in the region, kidnapping employees from an internationally loved organization doesn't really seem out of the mainstream for these theofascists.

[Dorian Gray]

3. I agree that the leadership

and the militia gangs are horribly abusive and murderous in the Sudan. It's horrific. I truly hope that these people will be released.

Sudan needs all the aid it can get.