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N'DJAMENA, Chad (AP) - A Chadian court convicted six French aid workers of trying to kidnap 103 African children and sentenced them Wednesday to eight years of forced labor.
The sentence came on the fourth day of the trial of the workers for the charity Zoe's Ark, who were charged with fraud and kidnapping after authorities stopped a convoy with 103 children that the group was planning to fly to France.
The defendants maintain they were driven by compassion to help orphans in Darfur, which borders Chad. An uprising that flared in Darfur in 2003 has led to the deaths of more than 200,000 people and forced 2.5 million to flee.
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