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<<previous | index | next>> ABUSES IN DARFUR BY REBEL FORCESHuman Rights Watch had limited access to information about abuses by the JEM and SLA, although a few of the cases are extremely serious. In one incident the JEM group in and around Kulbous, West Darfur, in November 2003, in which apparently over twenty civilians were killed and seven villages burned.85 In another incident in late 2003, SLA rebels apparently attacked a town in West Darfur and killed an Arab prisoner at the police station. Both the JEM and SLA rebels are using some boys of less than eighteen years of age as fighters. Eyewitnesses who have spent time with both groups report that while they were not seen in large numbers, and are not in separate formations, some of the boys were as young as fourteen years.86 85 Confidential communication to Human Rights Watch and interviews in Chad, February 2004. 86 Human Rights Watch interviews, Chad, February 12 and 20, 2004.
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