Word: militiaization
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After three years in which tens of thousands have died and 2.5 million have been displaced, the war in Darfur is growing ever more brutal. Most of the killing has been carried out by the Arab militia known as the Janjaweed, which mounts deadly raids on villages and refugee camps, often with the help of Sudanese government soldiers. The U.S. accuses the Janjaweed and its backers of committing genocide against Darfur's black African population, while Sudan's government blames the rebel Sudanese Liberation Army for the violence. Caught in the middle is the African Union's 7,000-person...
...conflict in Darfur before a resolution can be reached. “For the survivors, the issue of justice is very much related to the protection of survivors. They need to disarm the Janjaweed,” Osman said, referring to what Fashir called the government-armed militia. “What the survivors are asking for is that the people of Darfur can go back to their homes with safety and dignity,” Osman continued. He stressed that while the government had stopped aerial bombardments, the situation was far from calm, with thousands dying...
...includes different African tribes such as the Zaghawa, Masalit, and Fur—although the former is Arab and the latter is not. In recent years, the Sudanese government has been predominantly Arab. In the western region of Sudan known as Darfur, the genocide is carried out by Arab militia groups known as Janjaweed and not Sudan’s central government. Despite the government’s official stance against attacks by the Janjaweed militia, the central Khartoum administration actively aids the militias by funding them and giving them weapons and supplies. Various intelligence agencies and international organizations have...
...hostilities were started by a raid from a "death squad" backed by the Ministry of Interior (MOI) - carloads of men in MOI uniforms and irregular forces in civilian clothes who entered Adhamiya after passed through the Iraqi army checkpoints. Indeed, sources within one prominent Shi'ite militia say their men were part of the Adhamiya raid, which was targeting top insurgent leaders holed up in a building. A report prepared by the local council for the Iraqi army claims the men arrived in police and civilian cars and that another group of men in military uniforms attacked from a second...
...last week's battle]. But nothing is black and white here and I would be lying to say the MOI is never here." He adds, "We're definitely going to look into" the charges of death-squad involvement. Intelligence officer Brandon admits the fusion of legitimate government forces with militia is a problem. "So many players are tied to the government and to armed militias, and a lot of the time the interests overlap," he says. Major General Rick Lynch sums it up: "We don't know what happened yet." With the Iraqis set to assume more control...