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Interpreter killed in refugee riot Humanitarian chief forced to flee Darfur mob Bush calls for UN to take over peacekeeping May 9, 2006. 01:00 AM BISHR EL-TOUNI ASSOCIATED PRESS NYALA, SudanDarfur refugees rioted yesterday and forced the UN humanitarian chief to flee their camp, then attacked African peacekeepers and killed a translator in a sign of deep tensions in the wartorn region despite a fragile peace deal. The violence broke out as the UN's Jan Egeland toured Kalma camp, home to some 90,000 displaced people driven from their villages in Darfur. He was met by about 1,000 protestors demanding UN peacekeepers be deployed in the region. The protestors attacked a translator travelling with Egeland after someone in the crowd accused the man of working with the Janjaweed, the feared Arab militia blamed for atrocities against villagers, said UN spokeswoman Dawn Blalock. The translator, who worked for the British-based humanitarian agency Oxfam, escaped uninjured when he was pulled into a UN van. Footage by a CNN correspondent in the same van showed angry protestors reaching into the vehicle to try to grab the translator and drag him out as they hit the van windows with sticks. The voice of a man crying for help and the sound of breaking glass could be heard. Protestors also smashed windows in another vehicle in the UN convoy as it sped away, but Egeland and the rest of the convoy returned safely to the town of Nyala in South Darfur, Blalock said. About a half-hour later, the crowd attacked unarmed African Union peacekeepers at a nearby compound, killing a Sudanese translator working with the AU and making off with communications equipment from the site, she said. Many Darfurians complain that the 7,000-member AU force which is chronically undermanned and undersupplied does little to protect them, and they hope UN peacekeepers can do more to stabilize Darfur. Oxfam withdrew its six staffers from Kalma camp after the riots. The violence underscored the deep strains in Sudan's western Darfur region even after the Sudanese government and the main rebel group in Darfur signed a peace deal on Friday. Some 200,000 people have been killed in Darfur either by violence or by disease and famine since ethnic African rebels rose up in early 2003, accusing Sudan's Arab-led government of discrimination. Another 2 million have been forced from their homes, many by the Janjaweed, accused of killings and rapes in attacks on ethnic African villages. Khartoum denies charges that it backs the militia. In Washington yesterday, President George W. Bush welcomed the proposed peace accord as "the beginnings of hope" for Darfur's poverty-stricken population. "Darfur has a chance to begin anew." Bush called for the United Nations to take over peacekeeping in the Darfur region, and said Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice would visit the UN today to press for a new resolution increasing peacekeepers. He also promised to increase U.S. food aid to Darfur. Cindy Courville, Bush's special adviser on Darfur, said the president phoned Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir seeking his support for a large UN peacekeeping force, but didn't get a firm commitment. In Ottawa, Defence Minister Gordon O'Connor said the Canadian Forces can't take on any new overseas missions while they're in the process of trying to expand their ranks a statement that would seem to write off any hope Canada might assume a major role in any international effort in Darfur. The UN's chief envoy to Sudan, Jan Pronk, warned yesterday the peace deal would not mean an immediate end to fighting, even though the government had given orders to various tribal leaders in the field to cease fire. Some of the warring factions, including parts of the Janjaweed, are not under the government's control, Pronk told a news conference. He praised the faction of the rebel Sudan Liberation Army that signed Friday's peace accord and expressed contempt for the rival SLA faction and another rebel group, the Justice and Equality Movement, both of which rejected the agreement. "There is now a very clear distinct line between those who have the courage to talk and reach results, and those cowards who only want to fight," Pronk said. "That is the difference those who are courageous and those who are cowards." Egeland, following his arrival in Darfur on Sunday, warned that any peace treaty would not be easy to implement. 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