Six French nationals are charged for children kidnapping in Sudan's war battered region Dafor. They were about to fly to France with 103 children who were orphan. If they found guilty, they will be sent jail for 20 year with hard labor. After the French charity, they tried to put the children on a plane last week. Three French journalist were also charged with complicity, altogether 17 people are detained.
Authorities even would charge seven person flight crew with complicity. BBC has reported the flight crew were of Spanish nationality. According to source more than four years of conflict there has left more than 200,000 people dead and 2.5 million displaced.
"Children are being interviewed by authorities", said Mariam Coulibaly Ndiave UNICEF's representative in Chad. According to UNICEF many of the kids involved said they came from villages.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy and President Idriss Deby are going to discuss on this matter this weekend. Deby has assured, a debacle over a charity's effort to spirit children out of the country will not affect plans to deploy European Union peacekeepers there to protect refugees from neighboring Darfur.
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