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...want to make a light baby." GOVERNMENT-BACKED ARAB MILITIAMEN, who have been raping dark-skinned women as part of a campaign to ethnically cleanse the region of Darfur in Sudan...
Despite Sudanese government promises to disarm the militia, the attacks continue. Last week militiamen looted and burned six villages in southern Darfur and attacked a camp in the center of the region. The U.N. says government soldiers and police officers often fail to intervene to prevent the slaughter. In some places Janjaweed fighters are incorporated into the security forces meant to protect civilians. The Janjaweed's latest tactic is to encircle camps of displaced Darfurians and attack any who venture out to collect water or firewood. Women are often sent to do those chores because they will be raped rather...
Some 10,000 people have been killed, and more than a million have been forced to leave their homes in the region. At least 160,000 have fled across the border into Chad. In the town of Kailek, according to survivors, the Janjaweed militiamen rounded up men who had fled into nearby hills, then executed two or three every day for a month. Dozens of women were raped. "When the Janjaweed were not raping me, they tied my arms and legs together so I could not run away," says a 15-year-old girl who was raped by five...
There is no good season in Sudan. Since February 2003 the farming region of Darfur has been riven by conflict. It was sparked by an uprising by black Africans against perceived government discrimination. Since then, government-sponsored militiamen known as Janjaweed have conducted a campaign to cleanse the area of Darfur's black African civilians. The Janjaweed are Arabs; the Darfurians are non-Arab blacks. Both are Muslim. The U.S., international observers and Darfurians who have fled their villages say the horse-mounted Janjaweed are backed by military forces from Sudan's Arab-dominated government. Survivors report that government helicopter...
...Several weeks ago, he and his gang nearly took the town of Spin Boldak, a smuggler's haven in the southeast, according to a security source in Kabul. His fighters, that source says, overran Afghan outposts and even planted bombs in the town, but French commandos and Afghan militiamen thwarted the offensive...