Word: darfurian
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...While tens of thousands of Darfurians are being systematically raped, murdered, tortured, starved and driven from their homes, the world community can only stand and watch, arguing about the correct technical term to use to describe the situation and appointing commissions to "investigate" this atrocity. The world is a despicable place. The U.S. has illegally marched into Iraq while defenseless human beings are being slaughtered in Sudan. I don't care if you call it genocide, slaughter or a disaster?the Darfurian people need assistance. Fern Smith Johannesburg...
...Africa - sustainable management of natural resources. People like Maathai need to be among the decision makers who set policy for the African Union. Her new approach to peace is one the African continent badly needs. David Mbai Mboe Neuchâtel, Switzerland Candid Comparisons While tens of thousands of Darfurians are being systematically raped, murdered, tortured, starved and driven from their homes [Oct. 4], the world community can only stand by, arguing about the correct technical term to use to describe the situation and appointing commissions to "investigate" this atrocity. The U.S. has illegally marched into Iraq, while defenseless human...
Human rights activists and international media have said that oil revenues are helping the government pay for weapons for the janjaweed and bombers to conduct air raids on Darfurian civilians...
...livestock under the banner of a state-sanctioned military operation. Locals dubbed the fighters Janjaweed, a name that loosely means "devils on horseback" and has long been used to describe the region's bandits. By August 2003 the Janjaweed had begun attacking not only the SLA fighters but also Darfurian civilians, who it said were aiding the insurgency. The conflict quickly descended into ethnic cleansing, say human-rights observers, with the Janjaweed attacking and driving out people on the basis of ethnicity. Darfur's largest Arab tribes refused to take part in the fighting, and many Africans did not support...
...return to their villages, saying that the situation demanded "a real effort by the government of Sudan to provide for [the refugees'] safety and ensure progress in peace talks." In an effort to end the violence in Africa's largest country, Sudanese government officials met with leaders of two Darfurian rebel groups, who want a greater say in their rule, in the Nigerian capital of Abuja. The talks, sponsored by the African Union...