Reuters says Shackled Villagers are being Burned Alive in Sudan

U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell has said it is premature to discuss military intervention in Sudan's troubled Darfur region. Khartoum has already warned it would retaliate if foreign troops entered the country. In a rare insight into events in the remote, arid western region, African Union ceasefire monitors said in a document seen by Reuters that shackled villagers had been burned alive in an attack believed to have been carried out by Arab militiamen. The observers said a fact-finding team concluded the attackers had "killed civilians, in some cases by chaining them and burning them alive" in the village of Suleia on July 3. [more]