Aerial Photos Show 400 Villages Ravaged
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Satellite photos show that about 56,000 houses have been destroyed in nearly 400 villages in fighting in the Darfur region of western Sudan and that the destruction has spread into Chad, said Andrew Natsios, administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development.
He blamed the devastation on Arab militias known as the janjaweed, which are linked to the Sudanese government. U.S. experts estimate that 400,000 people once lived in the 56,000 mud brick houses.
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