As part of its genocidal counter-insurgency strategy, Khartoum has deployed the Janjaweed to destroy many thousands of non-Arab/African villages. In the past two and a half years, this assault on villages, farms, and livelihoods has again accelerated. This photograph by former U.S. marine Brian Steidle, working as part of the African Union monitoring mission of the time, took this photograph in early 2005