Tuesday, November 02, 2004
The Politics of Slaughter in Sudan
One day in the summer of 2004, more than 400 armed members of the janjaweed militia attacked the western Sudanese village of Donki Dereisa. They killed 150 civilians, including six young children, aged 3 to 14, who were captured during the assault and burned alive later that day, according to the Washington-based human rights group Refugees International. A man who tried to save the children was beheaded and dismembered.
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...journalists, relief workers and human rights monitors describe a scorched-earth operation waged jointly by the government and the janjaweed of wholesale massacres, summary executions, the razing of entire villages and the depopulation of wide swathes of farmland. "The government and its janjaweed allies have killed thousands of Fur, Masalit and Zaghawa -- often in cold blood -- raped women, and destroyed villages, food stocks and other supplies essential to the civilian population," says a recent Human Rights Watch report.
One day in the summer of 2004, more than 400 armed members of the janjaweed militia attacked the western Sudanese village of Donki Dereisa. They killed 150 civilians, including six young children, aged 3 to 14, who were captured during the assault and burned alive later that day, according to the Washington-based human rights group Refugees International. A man who tried to save the children was beheaded and dismembered.
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...journalists, relief workers and human rights monitors describe a scorched-earth operation waged jointly by the government and the janjaweed of wholesale massacres, summary executions, the razing of entire villages and the depopulation of wide swathes of farmland. "The government and its janjaweed allies have killed thousands of Fur, Masalit and Zaghawa -- often in cold blood -- raped women, and destroyed villages, food stocks and other supplies essential to the civilian population," says a recent Human Rights Watch report.
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