Lydia Polgreen
The New York Times
An African Union interpreter was hacked to death on Monday in this vast, squalid camp by a mob of angry demonstrators within hours of a visit from the top United Nations aid official.
The United Nations evacuated aid workers and journalists from the camp when a huge demonstration calling for rapid international intervention in Darfur turned violent.
The protesters tried to stab a longtime Oxfam worker they suspected of being a spy for the Sudanese government, and then set upon an African Union compound where unarmed police officers and a Sudanese interpreter had barricaded themselves. The outpost was soon overrun and looted, and the interpreter killed.
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