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Article: Help the African Union protect Darfur's people Ethnic cleansing in Sudan
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- International Herald Tribune
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- August 25, 2004
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David Mozersky
International Herald Tribune
08-25-2004
As concern has continued to grow around the world at the ongoing ethnic cleansing in the western Darfur region of Sudan, the stream of high-profile visitors to Sudan over the past few months has been accompanied by increasingly angry language from the international community. The indignation is aimed at Sudan's government, which responded to an armed rebellion in early 2003 by arming and unleashing the rogue Arab Janjaweed militias against the civilian populations of Darfur, suspected of supporting the rebels. Over the past 18 months, the Janjaweed have killed 50,000 civilians, committed countless atrocities including mass rape, ...