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U.N.: Violence in Darfur, Chad camps

UNITED NATIONS, Nov. 2 (UPI) -- United Nations officials report security breaches in internally displaced people and refugee camps in Sudan's embattled Darfur region and neighboring Chad.

Secretary-General Kofi Annan's Special Representative for Sudan, Jan Pronk, was at U.N. World headquarters in New York for his monthly briefing to the Security Council.

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Sudanese "forces" forcibly removed some internally displaced people in the pre-dawn hours Tuesday, Pronk told reporters. He said such "non-voluntary returns" were in violation of international human rights law and agreements hammered out with the Khartoum government.

The people violently being forced to move, in some instances, stoned the police or military units attempting to move them, Pronk said,

In Chad, "instigators" have been holding night meetings that led to unruly incidents by day, said a spokesman for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees in Geneva.

Ron Redmond said aid workers from two international non-governmental organizations left Breidjing Camp after some refugees brandished knives during a hepatitis discussion demanding to know why eight of the people causing trouble in the camp had been arrested.

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