Since the SLA attack on Fasher in April 2003, and particularly since the escalation of the conflict in mid-2003, the government of Sudan has pursued a military strategy that has deliberately targeted civilians from the same ethnic groups as the rebels.Together the government and Arab Janjaweed militias targeted the Fur, Masalit, and Zaghawa through a combination of indiscriminate and deliberate aerial bombardment, denial of access to humanitarian assistance, and scorched-earth tactics that displaced hundreds of thousands of civilians.10 Government forces also regularly arbitrarily detained and sometimes tortured Fur, Zaghawa, and Masalit students, political activists, and other individuals in Darfur and Khartoum suspected of having any allegiance to the rebel movements.
Mass Killings By the Government and Janjaweed
Human Rights Watch’s March-April investigations uncovered large-scale killings in fourteen incidents in Dar Masalit alone in which more than 770 civilians perished between September 2003 and late-February 2004. These are not the only incidents that occurred in Dar Masalit during those six months, but rather those which Human Rights Watch was able to corroborate with testimony from witnesses and other credible sources. Human Rights Watch obtained further information from witnesses to mass executions in the Fur areas of Wadi Salih province in the period from November 2003 through April 2004. Although this information is also far from complete given the difficulty of access to victims living in government-controlled towns and camps for the displaced, it indicates that the attacks on Masalit and Fur villages often follow a similar pattern.
DARFUR DESTROYED - Ethnic Cleansing by Government and Militia Forces in Western Sudan, based on field research by Julie Flint, independent consultant. The report was written by Julie Flint, Jemera Rone and Leslie Lefkow, both researchers in the Africa Division of Human Rights Watch; the latter two provided additional research. It was edited by Jemera Rone and Georgette Gagnon, Deputy Director of the Africa Division. It was also reviewed by James Ross, senior legal advisor, and Iain Levine, program director. Web research, production and coordination assistance was provided by Colin Relihan, associate in the Africa Division.
[HRW Leadership according to ngowatch.org: Kenneth Roth, Executive Director Bruce Rabb, Secretary Jonathon Fanton, Chairman.]
The question: are all Muslims insane? or are they just made insane by an insane religion?
Flint describes the killing as ethnic and not religious in the second action. The Economist reports that two million have died in the north/south conflict.
The north and south of Sudan have made peace after a civil war spanning almost half a century, in which 2m have died and twice as many have been displaced. But a separate conflict in the western region of Darfur still rages—and may destabilise neighbouring countries
The UN wrote a report, thats about all they are good for. This is the kind of Govt. Kerry wants for the US, when Kerry sees a problem he will write a report for the UN and the UN will write another report and nothing will be done.
Countries who are afraid to go to Iraq are also afraid to go to Africa. The USA is pretty busy right now thanks to our cowardly "Friends", and if the UN doesnt have the US to do their bidding they have no one. The UN is as useless as Teats on a boar hog.
It's Bush's fault.
Okay. So what's the problem? It sounds like a very good start of a solution to the world's biggest problem, Islam.
Maybe it's the beginning of a trend. Personally, I hope all billion or so of the savages wipe themselves out. The world would be a much better, safer, more peaceful place.
On the one hand, we need to keep the fanatics from populating the entire continent of Africa, and on the other, need to stay focused on the current tasks at hand.
When we said recently we weren't going to swat at flies, I hoped we meant it.
There's plenty of suffering in the world, and we can't take care of all of it. Some new suffering is always there to take its place. We can't spread ourselves out to the breaking point or we'll be completely useless.