கருப்பின முஸ்லீம்களை அழிக்க எங்களுக்கு சூடானின் இஸ்லாமிய அரபு அரசுதான் ஆயுதங்கள் வழங்கியது: ஜஞ்சாவீது தலைவர் ஒப்புதல்
We were armed by Sudan, say Darfur killers
By Nima El Bagir
Last Updated: 1:53am GMT 12/03/2008
Adjusting his camouflage turban, the commander pointed at the weapons and vehicles inside his camp in Sudan's war-torn region of Darfur.
President Omar Hassan al-Bashir has always
denied any link with the Janjaweed
With those words, he destroyed a myth carefully crafted by Sudan's regime.
Hamdan commands hundreds of gunmen from the notorious Janjaweed militia, which human rights groups blame for countless atrocities in Darfur's civil war.
President Omar al-Bashir's Arab-dominated regime has always denied any link with the Janjaweed.
Instead, Mr Bashir has denounced them as "bandits and thieves" and denied giving them any arms or supplies.
Yet Hamdan spoke near a Toyota Land Cruiser, mounted with a heavy machinegun, and his fighters were armed with mortars, anti-aircraft guns and Kalashnikov rifles. "The weapons, the cars, all that you see, we got it from the government," he said.
This support was given in direct breach of United Nations Resolution 1556, passed in July 2004, which gave Sudan's regime 30 days to disarm the Janjaweed and bring their leaders to justice.
Hamdan, 31, has been named by Human Rights Watch as a Janjaweed commander.
From his camp near the town of Um Al-Qura in Southern Darfur province, he now claims to control 20,000 gunmen. These Arab fighters were originally armed and raised by Khartoum to fight Darfur's black African rebels.
The Khartoum regime might disown them now, but Hamdan said that his orders came directly from Mr Bashir.
He claimed to have met the president twice in September 2006. "They asked for a meeting with us," he said. "There were two places that had fallen to the rebels: Um Sidir and Kiryari [in Northern Darfur]. After they fell, they called upon us - of course as part of the army - to go to the northern areas. We asked for the hardware that you now see with us. And they provided us with cars and weaponry, and we moved to the northern area."
He claimed that both meetings took place in the presence of Abdul Rahim Mohammed Hussein, Sudan's defence minister. "One meeting with the president was in his home, and the other was in the armed forces' headquarters," said Hamdan.
Using the weapons supplied by the regime, he managed to block a rebel assault into Northern Darfur in 2006. He was then entrusted with securing Southern Darfur province against the insurgents.
He had his first contact with the regime at the outset of Darfur's war in 2003. Hamdan said he was personally recruited to fight the rebels. "There was a general call to arms, to the entirety of Sudan after the rebellion began," he said. "The Sudanese government then specifically came to us."
He added that Sudan's regular army "sent officers to us who signed people up and trained us". Hamdan was trained at a camp west of Nyala, the provincial capital of Southern Darfur.
He was instructed alongside regular soldiers at an official military training centre. Hamdan produced his snakeskin wallet and took out a Sudanese army identity card. One of his followers, whom he described as his chief of staff, also produced one.
Each contained the Arabic words: "Identity for Officers and Soldiers, Armed Forces Commission for Intelligence and Security." There was an identity number, a photograph, and a hologram of the Sudanese armed forces insignia.
Hamdan rejected the label Janjaweed, which translates as "devils on horseback" for the mounted raids typical of the militia. He does not deny that other Arab fighters committed atrocities in Darfur, only his own guilt.
"We only fought against the rebels," he said. "In fact, there were times when we would receive orders to take part in operations in civilian areas." Hamdan said he always refused to obey these orders.
Others would disagree. The African Union, an alliance of all 53 countries on the continent, has sent a team of observers to Darfur. According to one of their reports, Hamdan was one of three Janjaweed commanders who led an attack on the village of Adwah on Nov 30, 2004, in which women were beaten and raped and more than 200 people killed.
Now that Hamdan has disclosed his relationship with the regime, the central question is whether Khartoum will maintain its bluster and denial.
Unreported World: Meet the Janjaweed will be shown on Friday at 7.35pm on Channel 4.
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The Darfur Disaster
Darfur's civil war, which began in 2003, has claimed about 300,000 lives, from violence, starvation or disease.
• At least two million people have fled their homes - one third of the population. The fighting has spread into Chad and the Central African Republic.
• The war began as a conflict between black African rebels and Sudan's Arab-dominated regime.
• The authorities recruited the Janjaweed militia from Darfur's Arab tribes and turned them loose on African villages.
• The war has now become more chaotic, with the rebels fighting among themselves and increasingly turning to banditry.
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Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Thursday, February 14, 2008
10 வயது கருப்பின டார்பர் முஸ்லீம் சிறுமியை கூட்டாக கற்பழித்த அரபு வெறியர்கள்.
அரபு இனவெறியையும் அரபு ஜாதிவெறியையும் கண்டிப்போம்.
Darfuris return to charred homes after attack
Wed 13 Feb 2008, 2:23 GMT
[-] Text [+] By Opheera McDoom
SIRBA, Sudan (Reuters) - The stench of burning hung in the air of Sirba, a town in West Darfur, as its inhabitants returned home to find their belongings in a charred pile, their animals dead and their food gone.
Sudan said it attacked the three remote West Darfur towns of Sirba, Abu Surouj and Suleia to force the Darfur rebel Justice and Equality Movement out of the area and reopen roads connecting the population to the outside world, closed since JEM occupied the area in December.
A third of Sirba's straw huts were burned and the market looted. Animals lay dead in the sandy streets. Dust-covered children swung off scorched branches watching as aid workers, journalists and United Nations-African Union peacekeepers inspected the damage on Tuesday.
"They killed my husband," said Kultoum Abdallah, 30, left without a home or breadwinner to care for her three children.
"I have nothing to eat, what should I do?" she pleaded, breaking into sobs and hiding her face in her bright blue robe. She spent two days in the bush after militias on horse and camelback looted, raped and burned.
Local leader Abakr Suleiman Ibrahim said 10 girls were raped by militiamen, one as young as 10 years old. He estimated that 3,000 people were missing.
Haroun Esam Yehia said he saw the militia, known locally as Janjaweed, burn his home. "I still don't know where two of my sons are," he said. They are 15 and 12 years old.
FACTS DISPUTED
A humanitarian team had brought tents for some who lost their homes, and a first instalment of food for 5,000 people as well as jerry cans and plastic sheeting arrived on U.N. trucks.
Residents and the governor of West Darfur said militias had killed 45-47 people in the attack and burned their houses. Both said the Sudanese army, which entered later, had not touched them. They said the dead were buried in mass graves.
Residents argued fiercely with army and security officials over what had happened during Friday's attacks.
The army said it was fighting JEM, whose members had hidden among the population dressed in civilian clothes. They showed dozens of rifles, heavy weapons and Israeli-made guns they said they found in houses in the town which had burned in an exchange of fire.
They said they also found two cars belonging to an international aid group with JEM's logo written on them, full of empty bullet shells.
But they denied any links to the militia.
"These criminal gangs hear of an impending operation and take advantage of this," said senior army officer Abdel Salam Abdel Hamid, adding papers and identity cards they found inside the town were proof of JEM's presence.
Many of those killed were men. In Sirba on Tuesday mostly women, the elderly and children had returned to the town. JEM logos and slogans were scrawled over the town's buildings.
Residents said JEM had no permanent presence in the town, saying they painted the logos in December but never came back.
"Dr. Khalil (JEM leader) did not kill one person when he came," Ibrahim said. "Why did the government arm these Janjaweed?"
But he wanted more Sudanese army forces to come and protect them against all armed groups -- militias or rebels.
"We are scared of anyone who has guns but the government."
While the facts are disputed, what is clear is that the world's largest aid operation will have more work as civilians continue to be caught in the crossfire of Darfur's revolt, now approaching its fifth anniversary.
International experts estimate that 200,000 people have died and 2.5 million have been driven from their homes since mostly non-Arab rebels took up arms in early 2003 accusing central government of neglect.
Washington calls the violence genocide, a charge Khartoum rejects. It blames Western media for exaggerating the conflict. Numerous peace efforts have failed because of rebel divisions and continuing clashes.
(Editing by Janet Lawrence)
Darfuris return to charred homes after attack
Wed 13 Feb 2008, 2:23 GMT
[-] Text [+] By Opheera McDoom
SIRBA, Sudan (Reuters) - The stench of burning hung in the air of Sirba, a town in West Darfur, as its inhabitants returned home to find their belongings in a charred pile, their animals dead and their food gone.
Sudan said it attacked the three remote West Darfur towns of Sirba, Abu Surouj and Suleia to force the Darfur rebel Justice and Equality Movement out of the area and reopen roads connecting the population to the outside world, closed since JEM occupied the area in December.
A third of Sirba's straw huts were burned and the market looted. Animals lay dead in the sandy streets. Dust-covered children swung off scorched branches watching as aid workers, journalists and United Nations-African Union peacekeepers inspected the damage on Tuesday.
"They killed my husband," said Kultoum Abdallah, 30, left without a home or breadwinner to care for her three children.
"I have nothing to eat, what should I do?" she pleaded, breaking into sobs and hiding her face in her bright blue robe. She spent two days in the bush after militias on horse and camelback looted, raped and burned.
Local leader Abakr Suleiman Ibrahim said 10 girls were raped by militiamen, one as young as 10 years old. He estimated that 3,000 people were missing.
Haroun Esam Yehia said he saw the militia, known locally as Janjaweed, burn his home. "I still don't know where two of my sons are," he said. They are 15 and 12 years old.
FACTS DISPUTED
A humanitarian team had brought tents for some who lost their homes, and a first instalment of food for 5,000 people as well as jerry cans and plastic sheeting arrived on U.N. trucks.
Residents and the governor of West Darfur said militias had killed 45-47 people in the attack and burned their houses. Both said the Sudanese army, which entered later, had not touched them. They said the dead were buried in mass graves.
Residents argued fiercely with army and security officials over what had happened during Friday's attacks.
The army said it was fighting JEM, whose members had hidden among the population dressed in civilian clothes. They showed dozens of rifles, heavy weapons and Israeli-made guns they said they found in houses in the town which had burned in an exchange of fire.
They said they also found two cars belonging to an international aid group with JEM's logo written on them, full of empty bullet shells.
But they denied any links to the militia.
"These criminal gangs hear of an impending operation and take advantage of this," said senior army officer Abdel Salam Abdel Hamid, adding papers and identity cards they found inside the town were proof of JEM's presence.
Many of those killed were men. In Sirba on Tuesday mostly women, the elderly and children had returned to the town. JEM logos and slogans were scrawled over the town's buildings.
Residents said JEM had no permanent presence in the town, saying they painted the logos in December but never came back.
"Dr. Khalil (JEM leader) did not kill one person when he came," Ibrahim said. "Why did the government arm these Janjaweed?"
But he wanted more Sudanese army forces to come and protect them against all armed groups -- militias or rebels.
"We are scared of anyone who has guns but the government."
While the facts are disputed, what is clear is that the world's largest aid operation will have more work as civilians continue to be caught in the crossfire of Darfur's revolt, now approaching its fifth anniversary.
International experts estimate that 200,000 people have died and 2.5 million have been driven from their homes since mostly non-Arab rebels took up arms in early 2003 accusing central government of neglect.
Washington calls the violence genocide, a charge Khartoum rejects. It blames Western media for exaggerating the conflict. Numerous peace efforts have failed because of rebel divisions and continuing clashes.
(Editing by Janet Lawrence)
Monday, February 11, 2008
இன்று: அரபு முஸ்லிம்கள் டார்பரிலிருந்து 12000 கருப்பின முஸ்லீம்களை துரத்தியுள்ளனர்-
ஜஞ்சாவீது என்ற பெயரில் சூடானின் அரபு இஸ்லாமிய அரசு டார்பரில் உள்ள கருப்பின முஸ்லீம்களை துரத்தியுள்ளது. இன்று மட்டுமே 12000 பேர் சாட் நாட்டுக்கு துரத்தப்பட்டுள்ளதாக செய்திகள் தெரிவிக்கின்றன.
12,000 flee Darfur for Chad
AFP Published:Feb 11, 2008
A town in Sudan’s Darfur region stands deserted
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GENEVA - Some 12,000 people from Sudan’s Darfur region have crossed the border into neighbouring Chad after heavy bombardments and armed attacks by the Janjawid militia, the United Nations (UN) refugee agency said today.
The refugees have fled to the Birak region of southeastern Chad after attacks on Friday and Saturday by the Sudanese army and the Janjawid militia, UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) spokeswoman Helene Caux told AFP.
Eastern Chad remains highly volatile after recent fighting between Chadian government and rebel forces, which led the UNHCR to evacuate staff from the country and thousands of Chadians to cross to neighbouring Cameroon, she said.
However, the fresh refugees from Darfur “have been through the worst already,” she added.
Her colleague Catherine Huck, who runs UNHCR’s operations in the Chadian eastern town of Abeche, stressed the difficulties that recent unrest in Chad itself have created for aid workers.
Last weekend saw rebels enter Njdamena and surround the presidential palace before retreating, leaving at least 160 people dead.
“We are already operating in an environment where security is spiralling downwards, where the supply line from NDjamena is cut after recent fighting, and where our field offices are running short of fuel,” Huck said in a statement.
“Getting newly arrived refugees away from the border into camps, is a real challenge,” she added.
The UNHCR is sending an assessment team to the region and hopes to move people by truck to existing camps for Darfur refugees today or tomorrow, she said.
Some 30,000 Darfur refugees already live in two camps in the Guereda area in eastern Chad, while a further 58,000 refugees are in three camps around Iriba.
Once safely in the camps, the newly arrived refugees will be given sleeping mats, blankets, jerry cans and kitchen sets, the UNHCR said.
The Sudanese army on Saturday confirmed its troops had carried out military operations in western Darfur and regained control of three communities, pushing out rebels to Chad.
“Army forces carried out large-scale operations combing the areas of Abu Suruj, Serba and Salia,” army spokesman Othman Mohammed al-Agbash told the official news agency SUNA, referring to areas in western Darfur.
The Justice and Equality Movement rebels said that Sudanese troops backed by Janjaweed militia had attacked the three communities north of Geneina, the capital of West Darfur, killing dozens of civilians on Friday.
JEM commander Abdel Aziz Nur al-Asher told AFP by telephone then that soldiers with 65 vehicles, backed by air support, launched the first attack alongside 600 Janjaweed fighters on camels.
He later said Sirba and Salia, also north of Geneina, had also come under attack, with Antonov fixed wing aircraft and combat helicopters taking part.
The latest unrest comes after a senior UN official warned on Friday that a reported proxy war between Sudan and Chad through rebel groups on each side of their border threatened to destabilise the region and lead to a wider conflict.
12,000 flee Darfur for Chad
AFP Published:Feb 11, 2008
A town in Sudan’s Darfur region stands deserted
Related Content
Rebels driven from Darfur
Pope voices Darfur ‘anguish’
GENEVA - Some 12,000 people from Sudan’s Darfur region have crossed the border into neighbouring Chad after heavy bombardments and armed attacks by the Janjawid militia, the United Nations (UN) refugee agency said today.
The refugees have fled to the Birak region of southeastern Chad after attacks on Friday and Saturday by the Sudanese army and the Janjawid militia, UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) spokeswoman Helene Caux told AFP.
Eastern Chad remains highly volatile after recent fighting between Chadian government and rebel forces, which led the UNHCR to evacuate staff from the country and thousands of Chadians to cross to neighbouring Cameroon, she said.
However, the fresh refugees from Darfur “have been through the worst already,” she added.
Her colleague Catherine Huck, who runs UNHCR’s operations in the Chadian eastern town of Abeche, stressed the difficulties that recent unrest in Chad itself have created for aid workers.
Last weekend saw rebels enter Njdamena and surround the presidential palace before retreating, leaving at least 160 people dead.
“We are already operating in an environment where security is spiralling downwards, where the supply line from NDjamena is cut after recent fighting, and where our field offices are running short of fuel,” Huck said in a statement.
“Getting newly arrived refugees away from the border into camps, is a real challenge,” she added.
The UNHCR is sending an assessment team to the region and hopes to move people by truck to existing camps for Darfur refugees today or tomorrow, she said.
Some 30,000 Darfur refugees already live in two camps in the Guereda area in eastern Chad, while a further 58,000 refugees are in three camps around Iriba.
Once safely in the camps, the newly arrived refugees will be given sleeping mats, blankets, jerry cans and kitchen sets, the UNHCR said.
The Sudanese army on Saturday confirmed its troops had carried out military operations in western Darfur and regained control of three communities, pushing out rebels to Chad.
“Army forces carried out large-scale operations combing the areas of Abu Suruj, Serba and Salia,” army spokesman Othman Mohammed al-Agbash told the official news agency SUNA, referring to areas in western Darfur.
The Justice and Equality Movement rebels said that Sudanese troops backed by Janjaweed militia had attacked the three communities north of Geneina, the capital of West Darfur, killing dozens of civilians on Friday.
JEM commander Abdel Aziz Nur al-Asher told AFP by telephone then that soldiers with 65 vehicles, backed by air support, launched the first attack alongside 600 Janjaweed fighters on camels.
He later said Sirba and Salia, also north of Geneina, had also come under attack, with Antonov fixed wing aircraft and combat helicopters taking part.
The latest unrest comes after a senior UN official warned on Friday that a reported proxy war between Sudan and Chad through rebel groups on each side of their border threatened to destabilise the region and lead to a wider conflict.
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