Sneaking Into Darfur: A Report
Human Rights Watch lawyer and Findlaw Columnist Joanne Mariner, along with two others, snuck into Darfur last July to witness first-hand the atrocities. She provides this report :
It was late July, and we had snuck into what the rebel groups that control the area like to call “liberated territory.” But the barren and depopulated landscape we saw before us suggested defeat rather than victory. It took a few hours of driving before we came upon people: a weary group, mostly women, with babies on their backs and random household goods on their heads, making the long trek toward Chad and safety.
...Over the past year and a half, since the Sudanese government and allied militia began their scorched earth campaign against the black African population of Darfur, more than 1.5 million civilians have fled their villages.
The Sudan Government is supporting the ethnic militias:
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