"The Arabs want to get rid of anyone with black skin," Youssef Yakob Abdullah said. In the area of Darfur that he fled, "there are no blacks left," he said.
In Darfur, the fighting is not over religion, for the victims as well as the killers are Muslims. It is more ethnic and racial, reflecting some of the ancient tension between herdsmen (the Arabs in Darfur) and farmers (the black Africans, although they herd as well). The Arabs and non-Arabs compete for water and forage, made scarce by environmental degradation and the spread of the desert.
http://globalsecurity.com/global_security/will_we.htm "Human Rights Watch has proof of government complicity in the wholesale rape of black girls and women.
"The have cut through the region, laying waste entire towns and villages, poisoning wells and slaughtering helpless refugees.
If marauding militias were not shocking enough, it turns out that the militias, known as janjaweed, are using mass rape as a tool of intimidation and are being encouraged in these brutal attacks by Arab women. A report by Amnesty International says black females, ranging from young children to the aged, have been deliberately targeted for public rape by the militiamen while Arab women accompanying them have verbally harassed the victims, sung songs of praise and participated in looting.
The government in Khartoum has repeatedly denied any involvement and calls the rapes an inevitable part of war. But Human Rights Watch says it has documentary proof that the government is more closely tied to the janjaweed than it has been willing to admit. The government has to put a stop to the depradations of the militias, provide safe access for aid workers and commit itself to a peaceful resolution of the conflict."
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPSt... Govt Quietly Recruiting Militia - Calls for Peace only a Facade
"Documents released Monday by Human Rights Watch suggest that while the government has publicly called for peace, it has quietly continued recruiting and arming militiamen and other "loyalists."
The Arabic-language documents, obtained by the international rights group, include a government order in February calling for "security units" in Darfur to tolerate the activities of the militiamen and a plan for Arab resettlement of areas where black farmers were driven out.
Sudan experts say Janjaweed militiamen also are being incorporated into new police and military units in Darfur, which means "we have them providing protection for the same civilians they just displaced and committed atrocities against," said Georgette Gagnon, deputy director for the Africa division of Human Rights Watch.
"The Khartoum government is trying to have it both ways, maintaining a facade of cooperation with the international community but in fact doing relatively little to rein in the ongoing atrocities in Darfur," said Kenneth Roth, executive director of the human-rights group."
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=12414888&BRD=... Sudanese Govt Planning Concentration Camps
"With the Interior Minister General plan, if it is implemented, the government of Sudan would complete its redrawing of the ethnic map of Darfur. African farmers burned out of the countryside by the army and the Janjaweed would be herded into unnatural concentrations where they would exist as a slave underclass under permanent threat of arms. Reports from inside Darfur already indicate that Arabs from Sudan and neighboring countries are being moved into areas that have been emptied of their original, African inhabitants."
http://kurdishmedia.com/reports.asp?id=2069 Shameful Silence from Islamic Leaders who've sided with Sudanese Govt
"Islamic leaders abroad have been particularly shameful in standing with the Sudanese government oppressors rather than with the Muslim victims in Darfur. Do they care about dead Muslims only when the killers are Israelis or Americans?"
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