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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

http://www.hindu.com/2004/07/21/stor...2102511500.htm

WTF!! where are we heading!!

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Confed999

Evil... just evil.

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eMGee

Don't you think if the others were the majority/in power that they wouldn't have done the same? If you don't, I don't think you know how Africa works...

The best thing is to let them solve their own problems, like the current situation in Sudan. And it's about time.

ChrisF202

Sick .. lets just invade the Sudan and end this madness.

Confed999

And that makes it ok? If they wouldn't have before, they certainly would now, that's for sure.

eMGee

Go and get yourself killed in Sudan for a bunch of fighting *******, good luck.

ChrisF202

Thats not the point, the fact that this is between the blacks and the Arabs is irrevelant. The point is that the Arab government supports and at one point sheltered Osama. That is why we need to go in their. And correct me if im wrong, wouldent it be better if there was peace in the Sudan?

Praxus

Nuke both sides till they stop

smilingassassin

"Go and get yourself killed in Sudan for a bunch of fighting *******, good luck."

Excuse me but thats just a little racist and uncaring. Every human being deserves to live in peace without fear of being killed merely because of their ethnicity or religion. If these muslim scumbags want killing on a wholesale scale so be it, we can give em what they want by destroying them and protecting the inocent people who want to live a civilized life. These radical Muslims want nothing more than to claim as much of the world as their own and subjigate as many people as they can. Like it or not we ARE in a modern day crusade, started by OBL and other sick bastards who thrive off of death and distruction.

ChrisF202

Hasent this whole thing in the Sudan between the Muslims and Christians been going on since the days of the Mahdi?

Aryan

This isn't a religious conflict, its an ethnic genocide campaign by arabs against black sudanese.

visioninthedark

In Darfur, both sides are Muslim ... except one side are animals aka arabs ... while others are defenseless africans civilians ...

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ChrisF202

I see, thanks for the corrections.

What should be done about this? Is the Sudanese govt. willing to stop the Arab militias?

ZFBoxcar

the government is supporting them because they see it as being in their interests to have sudan totally arabized and the non-arabs dead or repressed.

Aryan

Just like the Berbers of Algeria or the Kurds of Iraq.

Just out of curiosity, does anyoen have pictures of the Sudanese Arabs?

I thought the two parties were racially similar, but this part of the article seems to put that into doubt: