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...Darfur region of Sudan, and the world is pretending not to notice. By accounts updated last week, over 30,000 Darfurians, mainly from the Fur, Masalit, and Zaghawa ethnic groups, have been massacred by the Janjaweed Arab militias, which, thanks to the financial support of the central government in Khartoum, have been ravaging the western region of the country since November. Stirred by President Omar Hassan Ahmed al-Bashir’s incitements of ethnic and racial hatred, Janjaweed fighters were given $100 each, supplied with heavy arms and told that whatever they pillaged would be theirs to keep. They...
...long war between the government and the region's black African rebel Sudan Liberation Army has displaced more than a million black villagers and sent more than 100,000 fleeing into Chad. (The conflict in Darfur is not part of the country's 21-year-long civil war between Khartoum and rebels in the south, which is inching toward a peace deal.) In interviews with Time, Sudanese refugees described scenes of Janjaweed fighters dressed in military uniforms marauding through villages on horses and camels, stealing livestock and burning houses. The Arab militias, nomadic cattleherders who have long competed for land...
...current wave of violence is different. It’s not a religious conflict—all the parties are predominantly Muslim—but rather a conflict rooted in long-simmering ethnic and regional tensions. It began approximately 14 months ago, when the Arab-dominated Sudanese government in Khartoum became embroiled in hostilities with two black African rebel groups based in the vast western region of Darfur. In order to undermine potential rebel support, Khartoum is prosecuting a brutal ‘scorched-earth’ policy against Darfur’s Blacks. Khartoum has armed nomadic Arab militiamen...
...another 700,000 refugees are still trapped in Darfar where they continue to be victimized by roving militias and strafed by Sudanese military jets. With the crops burned, and new ones unable to be planted, international agencies are warning that Darfur may soon suffer serious famine as well. Meanwhile, Khartoum denies international humanitarian groups access to the region...
...during a phone conversation with the Sudanese President two weeks ago, but a forceful public denunciation would mean more. Intense international pressure may yet persuade the Sudanese government to call off its deadly campaign. Regardless, Power asserts that ten thousand peacekeepers are needed in Darfur to secure the situation. Khartoum would first have to agree to such a mission, a concession that would require additional U.S. leverage. For example, we could threaten to extend sanctions that we are already imposing on Sudan as punishment for their terrorist connections...