“If We Return, We Will Be Killed”
 Consolidation of Ethnic Cleansing in Darfur, Sudan

Summary

Recommendations

To the United Nations

To the African Union

To the government of Sudan

To the Rebel Groups

To U.N. humanitarian agencies and humanitarian nongovernmental organizations

Context

Reversing Ethnic Cleansing

Rural Insecurity and Forced Return

Forced Relocation

The special case of Sanideleibo

International response to return issues

Impunity

The Government’s Rape Committee

Government Efforts to Investigate Rape near Zam Zam Displaced Persons Camp

Government Refusal to Prosecute Janjaweed Leaders

Government Abuses

Continuing attacks and displacement

Attacks with Air Support

Rebel Abuses

Attacks on civilians

Abduction of civilians

Killings of civilians

Looting of Animals and Attacks on Civilian Objects

Recruitment and use of children as soldiers

International Response to the Crisis in Darfur

Acknowledgements

November 2004