| The
Sudanese government has been clearing out villages of
African
Zaghawa, Masaalit, and Fur communities in Darfur
since February
2003 in a fierce campaign of “ethnic
cleansing.”
Government soldiers and Arab nomad militia, called
“janjaweed,”
frequently surrounded groups of villages, often
encircling them
with trenches. In the first phase of the coordinated
attacks,
government air forces using Russian-built MiG and
Antonov jets
and attack helicopters, bomb the villages. In the second phase, the soldiers and
militia
move into the villages to loot, burn, kill, rape, and
abduct.
Bodies are left out in the open or thrown into the
trenches. |
In Jijira Adi Abbe village alone, 267 civilians were
killed
in such an attack.
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