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From: WITNESS Archive

Posted: Jun 26 07

Witnessed: 11540 times

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Sudan

Genocide

darfur, genocide

As WITNESS ally Human Rights Watch has documented, the government of Sudan is responsible for "ethnic cleansing" and crimes against humanity in Darfur, western Sudan. The Sudanese government and the Janjaweed militias it arms and supports have committed numerous attacks on the civilian populations of African ethnic groups, including the Fur, Masalit, Zaghawa, and others. The government and its Janjaweed allies have killed thousands of civilians, committed systematic rape, looted livestock, and destroyed villages, food stocks, and other supplies essential to the civilian population.

"They came to the village on horses, in cars, and on camels. Some people started fleeing this way, other people went this way. Then, they started shooting and burnt the village immediately," said one Darfur resident of the violence that he and his neighbors endured. "Later, when we came back, we saw dead bodies."

On September 18, 2004, the U.N. Security Council passed a resolution on Sudan, once again holding out the threat of sanctions on the country's leaders and its oil industry if the government fails to curb ethnic violence and setting up an inquiry into whether that violence constitutes genocide. In light of the massive human rights and humanitarian law violations in Darfur, Human Rights Watch believes that the Security Council should take stronger action to end the atrocities in Darfur including imposing arms and oil embargoes, stepping up the African Union's presence in Darfur, establishing a commission of inquiry, and abandoning the plan for so-called "safe areas" to be guarded by Sudanese police and security forces. Most important, the U.N. must name the government of Sudan as the party responsible for the continuing abuses in Darfur.

This Rights Alert was edited and produced by Human Rights Watch. WITNESS from footage shot in July and August 2004 by a Human Rights Watch researcher, showing regions of Darfur that no journalists or aid workers have reached since the beginnings of the atrocities.

Watch the Rights Alert to hear testimony from survivors and see evidence of the crimes taking place in Darfur. Then, to lend your support to end the atrocities in Sudan and Act Now.

Video Released: September 2004