About 600 people have died and 60,000 more been displaced since the SDLF took up arms in mid-2006 to fight for territory it says was stolen from the local Soy community.
Locals also accused the SDLF -- locally called the Janjaweed after feared militia in Sudan's Darfur region -- of widespread abuses.
One woman told MSF the militiamen began demanding taxes and extracting "fines" from her village in April 2006. "Gradually they were more brutal. They took five or more people a day and killed them in the mountains, even young children," she said.
"If they saw a man drunk in the street, that meant the man had money so he had to pay an immediate fine. If you didn't have the money, your ear was chopped off. If you resisted, it was your neck."
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