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				Litany of rape and abuse in Darfur region One men 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. August 9, 2004
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				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. From the thorn tree a few yards away some branches have been torn and strewn across the top. A couple of blades of fresh grass are poking through the sandy soil and five dark stones have been placed on top. 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. August 4, 2004
				'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. June 15, 2004
				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. As the 15-strong Security Council meets in special session in Nairobi to debate Sudan, the crisis in Darfur is worse than on 30 July when the first resolution was approved by 13 votes to 0. Every five minutes, another person dies. UN staff say the Khartoum government's armed forces have continued to attack their own people. Refugees have been beaten while UN workers stand by helplessly. Women and children have been gunned down in Darfur's marketplaces. The world's worst humanitarian crisis is getting worse. November 18, 2004
				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. In a land where more than a million people have been driven from their homes and thousands more have been butchered at the behest of their own government, this was one of the darkest moments. What happened in Kailek was nothing short of a 21st-century pogrom. August 10, 2004
				They wait clutching cards they hope will be their bus ticket to escape from this terrible place THERE is a small boy, no more than six years old, clutching a rolled-up rug whose length is three times the height of his body. His arms are wrapped around the rug, the end of which sways backwards and forwards as he tries to push it upwards towards the roof of the bus parked in the sand on the edge of the town of Tine. The boy tries again, but he is too small and weak to lift the heavy rug. Two of his friends join him, pushing from the sides, and the end rises perhaps six inches. But they cannot hold it, and slowly it begins to topple, until it crashes to the ground as the boys jump clear and a cloud of dust rises into the air. The first boy loops both hands through the piece of string tied around the centre of the rug, and starts to haul it towards the back of the bus. June 26, 2004
				The little cowherd was just ten. They found here 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. June 17, 2004
				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. September 18, 2004
				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. The UN yesterday reached agreement with Sudan over the implementation of a Security Council resolution which gave Sudan 30 days to disarm the Janjaweed militia, who have been blamed for the killing of thousands of people in Darfur and the displacement of more than 1.2 million people from their homes. August 10, 2004
				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. The wadi was an important place: people from the neighbouring villages brought their cattle there to drink from its waters. Some of his friends and family were there too, keeping a watchful eye on the animals as they lapped at the water. June 10, 2004
				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. June 17, 2004
				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. Far above, a few wisps of white cloud hang almost motionless in the pale -blue sky. June 12, 2004
				Her only chance, to run away blindly No civilians live in Tine Sudan, only soldiers. The people who lived in the town are long gone, driven out by the combined efforts of the Sudanese government and the Arab Janjaweed militia in its pay. It was across this wadi that Maka Mousa came four months ago. She 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. June 14, 2004
				Call for no-fly zone as slaughter goes on REFUGEES fleeing the genocide in Sudan say the Khartoum regime's forces are continuing to carry out murderous attacks on the population of the Darfur region, despite assurances that the killing is over. The British government is now considering pressing for a United Nations -imposed "no-fly" zone over Darfur, to stop the Sudanese government bombing civilians in the shattered province. Hundreds of people are reported to have died in Darfur in recent days after their villages were targeted in a fresh spate of attacks by Sudanese aircraft, soldiers and the Janjaweed militia, which is backed by Khartoum. Survivors who have reached the Chadian side of the border describe seeing men, women and children slaughtered in the attacks. June 15, 2004
				Leader: The world averts its eyes from the tragedy of Darfur HOMELESS, hungry, hopeless. The people of Darfur, those whose skin is the wrong colour for their government's liking, huddle in makeshift camps, driven out of their villages, many driven from their own country. They have run from the death squads and they have cowered as the bombs exploded around them. They wait for the world to help them. And the world looks away. June 26, 2004
				Killing goes on as Sudan lies to world and defies UN SUDANESE government forces and Arab militia have launched a fresh wave of murderous attacks on black African villagers in Darfur in defiance of demands from the United Nations and the United States for an end to the fighting. Fleeing refugees have described how villages in south eastern Darfur were bombed by Antonov aircraft and helicopter gunships before Janjaweed militia men in pick-up trucks and riding horses and camels swarmed into the villages, killing men, women and children, raping women, stealing property and animals, and setting houses alight. July 7, 2004
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