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wait clutching cards they hope will be their bus ticket to escape
from this terrible place
Koubra Hassabou watches the buses
go; she and her family had packed their things away, but there was no
place for them today. She sits in the sand, her face blank. "What
are we to do?" she asks. "If we had donkeys we could go
ourselves but we have no donkeys. We put a lot of luggage on our
donkeys and they died here." |
 Shallow
grave is testimony to Sudan's lies
THE grave is just a mound of
earth, no more than two feet high at its peak and 10ft in diameter.
It lies about 50 yards from the edge of the village of Nami in North
Darfur. The nine bodies buried had lain on the ground for more than a
week before the Janjaweed finally left the village and the people who
had escaped the killing felt brave enough to return. |
 While
they do nothing, 35,000 more die in Sudan
THE price of the United Nations' procrastination over
the genocide in Sudan is revealed today in stark human terms: 35,000
further deaths since the UN Security Council first warned Khartoum to
clean up its act. |
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 'Even
the stones were destroyed'
HALAWA'S body lay on the mountainside where she fell
when the bombs exploded, her womb torn open, the tiny body of her
unborn baby lying by her side, the blood soaking into the soil
congealing in the heat of the sun. She was nine months pregnant; her
friends said she was due to give birth to her fifth child within days. |
 "I
hate myself for being part of this war"
Bullets
kicked up the dust in front of the armoured car. Another round
flashed overhead, close enough for its high-pitched whine to be
heard. The African Union fuel convoy moving west across Darfur had
driven straight into a firefight between the Sudanese army and
rebels, in which the army was coming off worst. |
 UN's
shame over Sudan
ANOTHER month, another 10,000 dead. The United Nations
will today let down the people of Darfur again. On 30 July, the UN
Security Council warned Sudan that it had 30 days to clean up its act
and end the persecution of its people in the region. A month later, a
damning UN report demonstrated that it had done no such thing. |
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Litany
of rape and abuse in Darfur region
ONE man held her arms, others her legs. They took it
in turns to rape her. It lasted six hours.
Afterwards, they sat her naked on a donkey and she
rode back to her village as dusk fell.
When the baby is born in four months time she will
keep it. But a part of her will always think of it as her Janjaweed child. |
Eyewitness
to murder
HE WAS staring out of the window
at the cattle grazing by the wadi near his house in the village in
Darfur in western Sudan when he first caught sight of the Janjaweed. |
Peacekeepers
in Darfur pay fighters $1m a year
THE AFRICAN Union is paying out more than $1
million (£550,000) a year to warring factions in Darfur who are
involved in blatant breaches of the peace deal it is supposed to be monitoring.
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 How
the Janjaweed stole one family's future
FOR two days, Bashir Marsal and
Umal El Harif searched the hillside for each other and for their
children. The sudden appearance of the Janjaweed and the sound of
bombs falling on the village of Tawila had scattered them in all
directions. They wandered from place to place on the sides of Djabal
Atayab, asking anyone they met for help in finding the others. They
had been together for more than 21 years.
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 Outside
the food tent, the women are waiting patiently. They hand over their
cards and are given a meagre ration
THE sides of the road to Iridimi
are littered with the bodies of dead donkeys. The animals arrived
with the refugees who have flocked into the camp which sprawls across
the flat plain a little way from the Sudanese border, but the journey
left them weak, and unable to survive in the fierce heat of a June day
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Her
only chance, to run away blindly
Maka Mousa was running blindly through the night,
desperate to get away from the Sudanese soldiers and the militia who
had attacked her village. She ran and ran all night, stumbling across
the open scrubby bush, heading in the direction of what she hoped
might be safety. She did not know for sure that she had made it until
the dawn light came and she could look back across the wadi to Tine Sudan. |
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Tony
Blair admits Darfur is a tragedy. So why is he sending this
gang-rape victim back to her attackers?
The Home Office is
at the centre of a fresh row over its handling of asylum applications
after it emerged that hundreds of people who have fled the slaughter
in the Darfur region of Sudan have been told by officials that it is
safe to return to their homes.
Audio:
Darfur rape victim interview |
 Slaughter
of the innocents in Darfur's 21st-century pogrom
IT WAS, by all accounts, a
massacre. The atrocities committed by the Sudanese -government backed
Janjaweed militia against the black African farmers of Darfur have
shocked the world, but what happened in the town of Kailek deserves a
special place in the annals of the horrors of that conflict. |
Janjaweed
militia recruited for Sudanese police force in Darfur
MEMBERS of the Janjaweed militia
are being recruited into the Sudanese police force which the Khartoum
government has assured the United Nations has been sent to the Darfur
region to crack down on campaigns of ethnic cleansing by Arab
militia, according to a UN official.
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 The
little cowherd was just ten. They found her body riddled with bullets
WHEN the men found Fatouma Abdallah Adam, their anger
overwhelmed them. Her young body had been riddled with bullets; they
counted seven wounds in total. The sight of her lying there was more
than any of them could bear.
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Who'll
save the children now?
FOUR aid workers dead, two raped,
all in the space of two months. Save the Children has given up. It is
pulling out of the ravaged Sudanese region of Darfur. Médicins
Sans Frontières (MSF), too, yesterday revealed that one of its
members of staff had been targeted and killed in an area into which
Sudanese government forces had advanced.
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Sudan
Genocide: State-led murder and rape of villagers in Darfur uncovered
CONFIDENTIAL African Union (AU)
reports have provided damning new evidence of the involvement of
Sudanese government forces and their Janjaweed militia allies in the
murder and rape of civilians in the Darfur region. AU monitors have
collected photographic evidence of Sudanese helicopter gunships in
action attacking villages, and their reports conclude that the
Sudanese government has systematically breached the peace deals that
it signed to placate the United Nations Security Council. |
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 Sudan:
No escape from bloodlust
Sudanese government-backed gunmen
have clashed with Chadian army units after crossing the border to
kill refugees who have fled the genocide in Darfur and sought
sanctuary on land belonging to their western neighbour.
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The
child victims of Janjaweed onslaught
THE last time Abaker Khalil saw
his son Nuradeen, the boy was sprawled across the back of a camel,
behind the figure of its Janjaweed rider, disappearing through a
cloud of dust kicked up by the militia as they rode out of the North
Darfur town of Tawila. His other son, Yassin, was behind another
rider; it would be three days before Mr Khalil saw him again. |
Sudan
defies UN with plan to crush rebellion in Darfur
THE SUDANESE
government is preparing to launch a huge military offensive with the
aim of crushing the rebellion in Darfur by the end of the year and
emptying the refugee camps that are home to more than two million people. |
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 Killer
was able to stay but Darfur doctor faces deportation
A SUDANESE doctor who fled Darfur
to escape the genocide has been refused asylum in the UK and told he
must return to his home country, despite threats to his life and
Britain's acceptance that black Africans in the region are victims of
war crimes. The case of Dr Musa Saadeldin - who was detained and
tortured by Sudanese security police - exposes the chaos in Britain's
asylum system that was exploited by the convicted ricin plotter Kamel Bourgass. |
 Crisis
in Sudan: every refugee child under five face death unless UN acts
NOT a single Sudanese child
refugee under the age of five will be alive in six months unless
there is immediate and dramatic international intervention, a senior
United Nations official warned yesterday. |
 Sudan
masses its troops for a decisive strike on Darfur
The soldier pushed at the bomb with his foot,
rolling it through the dust towards the white Russian-built Antonov
aircraft standing on the runway of El Fasher airport. The plane was
being loaded for another bombing run, as Sudanese government forces
gear up for a military onslaught when Ramadan ends today or tomorrow. |
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