Sudan: Government Officials Implicated in Supporting Janjawid Militias

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

http://allafrica.com/stories/200407200032.html

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Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Monday it had obtained documents showing that Sudanese government officials had directed the recruitment, arming and support for Janjawid militias in the country's western region of Darfur.

The confidential documents, obtained from the civilian administrations in Northern and Southern Darfur, implicated high-ranking government officials in "a policy of militia support", HRW added in a news statement.

The government of Sudan has admitted arming the militias to fight a rebellion in the region, but has consistently denied supporting them with its army, and has never accepted responsibility for the widespread human rights abuses they have committed. It was not possible to immediately get a comment from the government on the HRW report.

HRW and other groups have accused the militias and Sudanese government forces of being responsible for crimes against humanity, war crimes and ethnic cleansing involving aerial and ground attacks targeting civilians.
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[havocmom]

1. They need to be stopped before they manage to kill off the witnesses

I see al-Bashir is getting annoyed at being accused:
http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=42251&SelectRegion=East_Africa&SelectCountry=SUDAN
<snip> President Umar Hasan al-Bashir has accused Western media of a campaign of lies regarding Darfur, saying that accusations of "ethnic cleansing" by some Western media were "sheer fabrications and baseless".

My daughter works with a young man who walked out of the Sudan with some other lads. Make no mistake, their people are being slaughtered.
http://www.episcopalchurch.org/3654_40344_ENG_HTM.htm
<snip> John Majok, a former Sudanese refugee who now lives in the United States, said he watched as his friends and relatives were killed. "This was simply because ... they refused to surrender to the enforced values of the Islamic culture," he said.

Gotta figure if a little news is slipping out, al-Bashir's people will be working 24/7 to make sure there are few, if any witnesses left to testify. They have continually thwarted efforts of humanitarian aid workers trying to get into the country. It is a long, dry walk to Chad for refugees. They need US Peacekeepers on the ground NOW

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

2. kick!