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Five African Union soldiers killed in Darfur

Peacekeepers were first deployed in Darfur in August 2004, 18 months after local rebels attacked a military base. In retaliation the government and its proxy militias had launched a scorched earth policy against local sedentary tribes, killing tens of thousands of civilians and displacing more than 2 million people.

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