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...crisis in Darfur and Chad is an incredibly acute and massive humanitarian crisis, and I wanted to help. With my experience with humanitarian crises and my background in human rights and international legal issues, I thought I could contribute to this effort,” Leaning wrote...
Leaning was part of a two-member team affiliated with PHR that canvassed Darfur, Sudan and the border region of Chad, where hundreds of refugees have established makeshift camps. Darfur has been a recently-publicized hotbed of conflict between the Janjaweed militia and non-Arab Darfurians. The government of Sudan is alleged to have conspired with Janjaweed militias to cause the destruction of the black Darfurian population. Both groups are composed almost entirely of Muslims...
...destruction of villages, livelihoods and means of survival, specifically the “hot pursuit with intent to eradicate [non-Arab] villagers...and the consistent pattern of systematic rape of women” as evidence of the desire to achieve a full-scale eradication of non-Arabs living in Darfur...
...There are 137 areas where the displaced people of Darfur have clustered or settled, and the international community has been allowed to reach only 75 of them,” Leaning wrote. “What we are seeing is desperately awful, but we fear that what we aren’t seeing is worse...
...Number of people killed in Darfur, Sudan, since fighting began one year ago, prompting U.S. Senators to introduce a resolution declaring the killings to be genocide...