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International Action:
End
Genocide in Darfur, West Sudan
What is happening in
Darfur?
A preventable humanitarian crisis
is raging in the Darfur region of
western Sudan Government-backed militias,
the Janjaweed, are systematically
eliminating entire communities of
African tribal farmers. Villages are
being razed, women and girls raped
and branded, men and boys murdered,
and food and water supplies targeted
and destroyed.
“Government forces and militias
conduct indiscriminate attacks, including
killing of civilians, torture, enforced
disappearances, destruction of villages,
rape and other forms of sexual violence,
pillaging and forced displacement,
throughout Darfur. These acts are
conducted on a widespread and systematic
basis, and therefore may amount to
crimes against humanity …The
vast majority of the victims of all
of these violations have been from
the Fur, Zaghawa, Massalit, Jebel,
Aranga and other so-called ‘African’
tribes.” [United Nations Commission
of Inquiry, January 25, 2005 ]
Nearly 500,000 people are dead since
February 2003. Many are murdered,
others die of famine and disease due
to lack of food, shelter, sanitation,
and health care. More than 2.5 million
people have been displaced, their
livelihoods and villages destroyed
by government forces and their proxy
militias. Thousands of women and girls
have been and continue to be raped
by all military forces.
Government-sponsored violence is escalating
and the security situation deteriorating.
The Janjaweed is neither disarmed
nor prosecuted. Sudanese police forces
attack displacement camps and forcibly
relocate people.
The humanitarian crisis that forms
part of the genocide is escalating,
as the government of Sudan continues
to obstruct humanitarian operations,
creating famine conditions for millions
of vulnerable people. Due to intolerable
levels of violence several relief
organizations, unable to protect their
workers, have pulled out of the region.
Please speak out for
innocent and suffering people of Darfur!
www.savedarfur.org
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