Posted on 09/25/2004 11:32:56 PM PDT by rennatdm
Arab women encouraged Darfur rapes: Amnesty
By Jeevan Vasagar
and MacAskill
NAIROBI/LONDON, JULY 20. While African women in Darfur were being raped by the Janjaweed militiamen, Arab women stood nearby and sang for joy, according to an Amnesty International report published yesterday.
The songs of the Hakama, or the ``Janjaweed women'' as the refugees call them, encouraged the atrocities committed by the militiamen.
The women singers stirred up racial hatred against black civilians during attacks on villages in Darfur and celebrated the humiliation of their enemies, the human rights group said.
``[They] appear to be the communicators during the attacks. They are reportedly not actively involved in attacks on people, but participate in acts of looting.''
Amnesty International collected several testimonies mentioning the presence of Hakama while women were raped by the Janjaweed. The report said: ``Hakama appear to have directly harassed the women [who were] assaulted, and verbally attacked them.''
During an attack on the village of Disa in June last year, Arab women accompanied the attackers and sang songs praising the Government and scorning the black villagers.
According to an African chief quoted in the report, the singers said: ``The blood of the blacks runs like water, we take their goods and we chase them from our area and our cattle will be in their land. The power of [Sudanese President Omer Hassan] al-Bashir belongs to the Arabs and we will kill you until the end, you blacks, we have killed your God.''
The chief said that the Arab women also racially insulted women from the village: ``You are gorillas, you are black, and you are badly dressed.''
The Janjaweed have abducted women for use as sex slaves, in some cases breaking their limbs to prevent them escaping, as well as carrying out rapes in their home villages, the report said.
The militiamen ``are happy when they rape. They sing when they rape and they tell that we are just slaves and that they can do with us how they wish,'' a 37-year-old victim, identified as A, is quoted as saying in the report, which was based on over 100 testimonies from women in the refugee camps in neighbouring Chad. Pollyanna Truscott, Amnesty International's Darfur crisis co-ordinator, said the rape was part of a systematic dehumanisation of women. The U.N. estimates that up to 30,000 people have been killed in Darfur, and over a million have been forced to flee their homes. Another human rights organisation, Human Rights Watch, today published alleged Sudanese Government documents showing that it was much more closely involved with the Janjaweed than it has so far admitted. The documents, which Human Rights Watch said it had obtained from the civilian administration in Darfur and are dated February and March this year, call for ``provisions and ammunition'' to be delivered to the Janjaweed militia.
Peter Takirambudde, executive director of Human Rights Watch's Africa division, said: ``These documents show that militia activity has not just been condoned, it's been specifically supported by Sudan Government officials.'' The official Government line is that it did not arm or support the Janjaweed, though its presence was useful in helping to combat rebels in Darfur. — Guardian Newspapers Limited 2004
Gee, imagine that. Minority women cheering as other minority women are being raped. What will Patricia Ireland say? Most likely she'll blame it on President Bush.
Arabs view "race" in terms of "cleanliness". by that I mean appearance and lifestyle. Looking down upon Blacks regardless of country of origin is quite normal. In Egypt, people from Upper Egypt( the south ) are looked down upon by the Egyptians that live further north.
Another stunning example of UN success.
Arabs were the ones who originally sold most of the Africans into slavery. And very few of them who were slaves in Arab nations survived. Only the ones that Arabs sold to the Westerners had a good chance of surviving. Arabs treated their slaves very harshly.
Syria arming Sudan with chemical weapons so when we go in, they use them on us. Great. Satanic rituals of rape, murder and torment, typical reality of the "religion of peace".
Syria arming Sudan with chemical weapons so when we go in, they use them on us. Great. Satanic rituals of rape, murder and torment, typical reality of the "religion of peace".
So much for their ummah.
The messages from al Qaida that are broadcast mention digging ditches. Now it makes sense.
If there is any place on earth where the 'United Nations' might have been a necessary construct to deal with issues, it is Africa. But alas.
Maybe they have had better things to do, like administer billions of dollars in kickbacks in Iraq, or something.
Oh, and regarding the Arab (Muslim) women singing while the black (non-muslim) women are being raped? Gosh, what a surprise ... they seemed like such nice folks.
Unbelievable. What a peeeeeeeeeeeaceful religion.
They are a real lovely group of people, aren't they?
I think the B'atch Ireland will rejoice gleefully. The blame will be put on the republicans and President Bush. The religion of piss is responsible for these atrocities. The UN will do nothing except pacify the muzlimbs while innocents blacks and other die in that hell hole. I think it's time we send in the mercs to sqaush the muzlimbs. I will add, where is jesse the (N) jackasason and calypso louie, nation of fruit loops during this little party in Dafur? I will presume it has no economic viablity in their pocket-books for their interests. My heart hurts from the anquish I feel for the innocents who are being murdered in Dafur. "" Note "" I would like a response from all other( Freepers )on how they feel about this situation in Dafur? Bush/Cheney 2004
Alex, what is, "A story you won't hear on the World News Tonight in a million years?"
President Bush is neutralized from doing anything about this atrocity in the Darfur region of the Sudan. The liberal media and the Dem's in congress, including the Congressional Black Caucas (CBC), have hammered the President about making sure that the U.N. supports any actions (i.e. Iraq) and France, Germany, and Russia are on board, otherwise they deem it as unilateral (well, except for Kosovo). We know the U.N. will do nothing, just like in Rwanda. It will take the Dem's to acknowledge the failure of the U.N. (and taking away their talking point of the validity of the U.N. to hurt the President politically). The CBC are having their own race killed in Darfur and they are shutting up for political reasons. They want to continue to hammer on about so called unilateral action in Iraq and the importance of U.N. for political reasons at the expense of their race.
President Bush will ultimately be the one to stop this atrocity and take action without the U.N. However, it can only happen after November 2nd due to his neutralized position. The President in the same sense has to wait until November 2nd to step it up in Iraq and take out a Mosque is necessary.
It's amazing how protected the Muslims are in the media. Imagine if whites were raping, murdering, and enslaving people. Why is the media not making this front page news? This action in Darfur is Hitleresque in a sense. The Arabs are targeting the blacks for extermination like Hitler killed the jews. Why is the U.N. still held up as the source for handling world affairs and crisis?
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