Posted on 04/23/2004 5:19:43 PM PDT by blam
Ethnic cleansing in desert of death for black Muslims
By Adrian Blomfeld in Tine
(Filed: 24/04/2004)
The Saharan winds swirled through the desert, choking the furnace-hot air with sand, as the survivors of the massacre at Har 'Janga village straggled south, fleeing Sudan's blood-soaked Darfur region.
One of the group's donkeys collapsed within sight of Tine, on the border with Chad, its body heaving with rasping breaths as Ismael Jali, 12, wearily unfastened the bags on the dying animal's back.
"It has been like this since we left," he said, a white cloth scarf wrapped around his face to filter out the billowing sand.
"We do not have enough water even for ourselves. Nearly all the animals have died and we have buried two old men."
Two weeks earlier Ismael had been brewing tea for his family when he heard the drone of Sudanese government Antonovs overhead - the chilling precursor of attacks across Darfur.
As the panicked villagers tried to flee, the bombs started raining down, one embedding a large piece of shrapnel in his five-year-old sister Khadija's face, ripping open her cheek.
Even after the bombing there was no escape. The village had been surrounded by armed Arabs on horses and camels - members of the Janjaweed militia, who, with the backing of the Khartoum government, are apparently intent on "whiting out" Darfur's black majority, despite both sides being Muslim.
The mounted Arabs, in military fatigues, charged into the village, wheeling precisely between the huts and firing indiscriminately. The Janjaweed were followed by government infantry who gathered Har 'Janga's young men into a group and executed them, each with a single shot in the back of the head.
Ismael's family were singled out and taken to a well. The Janjaweed accused them of supporting the Sudan Liberation Army, the rebel movement that began an uprising against the government a year ago.
"They took a knife and cut my mother's throat and they threw her into the well," said Ismael. "Then they took my oldest sister and began to rape her one by one. My father was kneeling, crying and begging them for mercy." Ismael escaped by hiding under a dead mule, from where he saw the Janjaweed rape his three other sisters, among them Khadija, her face now unrecognisable, before slitting their throats.
"After that they killed my brother and my father," he said. "They threw all the bodies in the well."
The United Nations says Darfur has become the scene of the world's worst humanitarian crisis. More than a million people have fled as the Janjaweed advance, burning village after village. More than 100,000 have crossed into neighbouring Chad, where most have little access to emergency aid.
Khartoum has largely denied access to international relief organisations, making it impossible, in a region the size of Germany, to establish how many have been killed.
Over the past three decades camel herders of Arab descent, tacitly backed by Khartoum, have fought Darfur's black Muslim tribes over the region's scarce water and grazing resources, but never on this scale. Human rights organisations describe the recent escalation as government-inspired ethnic cleansing, perhaps even genocide, as the Janjaweed embark on a final solution to rid Darfur of its black Muslims.
"The reason they are killing us is because of the colour of our skin," said Ibrahim Mustafa Sabun, who fled from the village of Jejira where the Janjaweed killed 16 people two months ago. "They just want Darfur for themselves."
While the Janjaweed, a term that has only recently emerged, may be carrying out a long-dreamed-of pogrom, it is unlikely its campaign would be so successful without the backing of President Omar al-Bashir's government.
Ironically the rebellion that sparked Darfur's intra-Muslim conflict was prompted, in part, by peace negotiations that seem set to end Khartoum's 21-year war with Christian and animist rebels in Sudan's south. The two sides agreed to share power and oil wealth, leaving Darfur's economically and politically marginalised population to believe it would be left out.
Although the two sides did agree a 45-day ceasefire this month to allow humanitarian access to Darfur, the rebels say Khartoum has repeatedly violated it, killing more than 100 people in 11 days.
Here's another: "Bush Ignores Race War In Sudan, Blacks Slaughtered"
Within the history of Islam they have always made slaves of blacks, women and children!
So the real problem must be the Jews! Who for example are descended from Abraham.
Oh excuse me Mohammad is descended from same!</b?
The sad, sad thing however...is that given half a chance, his kinfolk could have been talked into doing the same thing to the arab tribes, if they had the guns/horses/etc.
This is not a comment on africa- this is something that virtually all peoples have done. Those nice, democraticaly socialist Swedes and Norwegians? The gave us the word "slave", which was a modification of "slav"- a tribe they hunted for captives.
Having said that, it sounds like Ismael's people, at present, DON'T have guns...wouldn't it be neat if we could round up a couple of C130 loads of weapons, find a couple of hundred ex-military types to teach this kid and his folk how to use them, and drop the lot in?
Set up some ambushes, kill most, and do a little Vlad Tepes number on the ones that are caught?
Instead of stakes, use pigskin wrapped implements, wielded by enormous steroid gorged bulldykes...each sporting multiple piercings, and a Star of David branded on their foreheads.
Gross, over the top...probably this post should be yanked. But it would their feelings so very, very much.
The best part would be watching the faces of the group as the first guy got it, and they realized they were next.
NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The article was written with a RACIAL BIAS bias and you sucked it up.
Who is doing the Killings -- ARAB MUSLIMS.
ARAB MUSLIMS are killing BLACK MUSLIMS
Geeez get the story straight.
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