One wonders whether all the forces in Khartoum’s assault on El Salam were adults.  Several elements of the regime’s military/security forces were involved in the assault on unarmed civilians. (Photograph from confidential source)    

  Before their very eyes: the UN/African Union (“hybrid”) Mission in Darfur has failed badly, and yet the international community refuses to be honest about the scale and consequences of this failure. In this notorious photograph from North Darfur, UNAMID watches as militia forces attack unarmed displaced persons before their very eyes. This refusal to […]

The Janjaweed have been responsible for the vast majority of the tens of thousands sexual assaults on women and girls; rape has become an extremely potent weapon of war.  Victims of all ages are often scarred or branded, as here, to highlight the stigma that attaches to rape in conservative Durfuris cultures—all Muslim. Fearful of […]

Architects of the Darfur Genocide: President Omar al-Bashir and Defense Minister Abdel Rahim Mohamed Hussein.  Both have been indicted by the International Criminal Court for massive crimes against humanity; al-Bashir has been indicted on multiple counts of genocide.  These are the men who gave Musa Hilal and the Janjaweed their orders, and continue to do […]

Village destruction has been, by design, comprehensively destructive; the goal has been to destroy the livelihoods of the the non-Arab/African villagers.  Literally thousands of African villages have been destroyed, and most of the farmers displaced in the process remain displaced and have no chance to reclaim their lands.

Perhaps the most brutal and destructive of all the Janjaweed leaders has been Musa Hilal; he has been personally present at some of the worst civilian atrocity crimes in North Darfur.  His daughter’s wedding in January 2012 was an occasion for UNAMID chief Ibrahim Gambaria to cozy up to génocidaire-in-chief and President of the National […]

  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 […]

The violent displacement of some 3 million people during the past decade has produced tremendous humanitarian need—and shortfalls.           Photograph by Mia Farrow                          

These brutal Arab militia forces have together done the genocidal work of the Khartoum regime for over a decade; presently they operate with the open support of Khartoum in the form of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF). The current murderous campaign by the current Janjaweed reincarnated (as the “Rapid Support Forces) comes ten years after […]