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The United Nations Refugee Agency says that around 50,000 Sudanese refugees fleeing inter-ethnic violence in the troubled Darfur region have crossed into Chadover the last week. CHUNTV
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STORY: GENEVA / DARFUR REFUGEES
TRT: 1.37
SOURCE: CH UNTV
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 12 APRIL 2013, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND

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FILE – RECENT, PALAIS DES NATIONS, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND

1. Various shots, UN flag at the Palais des Nations

12 APRIL 2013, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND

2. Wide shot, briefing
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Melissa Fleming, Spokesperson, UNHCR:
“We have a situation in Chad, where we’re seeing as many as 74,000 people who fled there over the last two months; 50,000 just in the last week.”
4. Cutaway, journalists
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Melissa Fleming, Spokesperson, UNHCR:
“We’re hoping that the local authorities are able to put an end to this because the violence seems to be really awful. Razing and burning of villages, people are arriving wounded, and telling us their houses are destroyed and their villages completely burned down.”
6. Cutaway, journalists taking notes
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Melissa Fleming, Spokesperson, UNHCR:
“They’re arriving in numbers. The area they are arriving in in Chad is very, very remote. They’ve left with nothing, there’s no water, no food. They are sleeping under trees, we know that there is risk of disease, and people keep arriving daily, many wounded. There is no infrastructure in this place, no health centre etcetera.”
8. Wide shot, journalists

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Around 50,000 Sudanese refugees fleeing inter-ethnic violence in the troubled Darfur region have crossed into Chad over the last week, the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, said today (12 April).

At a press briefing at the United Nations (UN) in Geneva, Melissa Fleming, Spokesperson for UNHCR warned: “The violence seems to be really awful. Razing and burning of villages, people are arriving wounded, and telling us their houses are destroyed and their villages completely burned down.”

In Tissi, the new arrivals live in very dire conditions. Fleming said that, “They’re arriving in numbers. The area they are arriving in in Chad is very, very remote. They’ve left with nothing, there’s no water, no food. They are sleeping under trees, we know that there is risk of disease, and people keep arriving daily, many wounded. There is no infrastructure in this place, no health centre etcetera.”.

UNHCR is concerned that the number of refugees will increase as clashes continue across the border.

Staff report witnessing thick heavy smoke in the Darfur skies fearing this may be the result of more houses being set on fire in the nearby Darfur villages. Since 2003, there are over 300,000 Sudanese refugees in Chad.

Refugees are fleeing fresh tribal clashes in the Sudanese town of Um Dukhun. In last two months, clashes have now displaced over 74,000 people into Chad including Sudanese and Chadians – who lived as refugees in the conflict zone.

This is the largest influx of refugees from Sudan into Chad since 2005. Most of the latest arrivals are women and children. The first waves of civilians who fled Darfur arrived in March earlier this year to seek safety in the neighbouring town of Tissi in Chad. Among some 24,000 people, recordings revealed 8,000 of Sudanese and 16,000 Chadians.

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