“Refugees Attack, Chase Away CNN Team”

Journalists and aid workers, including CNN’s Nic Robertson, were forced to flee a Sudanese refugee camp today when the crowd became violent. Robertson narrated the video on American Morning:

“This is a displaced people’s camp. It is one of the biggest displaced people’s camps in the world. There’s about 100,000 displaced people there.

The mood had been quite uplifting… The calls had been for U.S. and international troops to come and bolster a peace deal and come and protect the people in the camp from the Sudanese government forces.

That’s what people were asking for. But on a moment the atmosphere changed. Somebody in the crowd thought that one of the UN translators was in fact a Sudanese government spy.

He tried to duck into our car for cover, they tried to pull them out of our car. I saw somebody try to stab him. Bricks were thrown at our car. It was beaten, beaten with sticks. they were literally trying to kill this translator. Fortunately he was able to make it out of there in our vehicle. The vehicle was quite badly beaten up though.”