Controversial and conflicting claims of suffering in the Sudan are coming out in recent days...SPLA Rings Alarm On "Bahr Al-Ghazal Crisis" - UN Integrated RegionalInformation Networks : "A humanitarian crisis of major magnitude is unfolding inWestern Bahr al-Ghazal State, southern Sudan, asintensified government bombing and ground attacks bygovernment-armed murahilin tribal militia have resultedin the entire population of Raga County beingdisplaced, the rebel Sudan People's LiberationMovement/Army (SPLM/A) claimed on Thursday.The government of Sudan has unleashed some 2,000murahilin warriors (usually comprising Arab Baqqarahand Zaghawah tribesmen) on horseback to ravage thelength of Raga County, while also intensifying itsbombing of fleeing civilians, according to a statementfrom rebel spokesman Samson Kwaje ... "The situation isextremely desperate, particularly for the elderly,women and children... They have no food along theroute towards the south," ... a large number of civilians wereon the move with nothing to eat and no place fortemporary refuge as the government kept bombingthem from Antonov aircraft. .."