News from Sudan's Darfur region gets more horrifying every day: The Guardian reports that Arab women who accompany the militias as they rape and slaughter their way around the region "sang for joy" as they watched their brothers torture their victims. Women as young as eight have been targeted by the militia in a campaign of rape designed to drive the black Sudanese from their homelands.No, I don't think Bush is Hitler -- but I think I have a pretty good idea who Hitler's intellectual heirs are...
Human Rights Watch claims to have obtained proof that Sudan's government backed the Janjaweed militias responsible for the massacre - Khartoum denies supporting the militia. The United Nations estimates at least 30,000 have died and a million have fled their homes since the attacks began.
Tuesday, July 27, 2004
Fiddling on Sudan
EURSOC has the goods on Sudan: