Moslem Militias Kill 63 in Darfur

03 Nov. 06 ~ Moslem militias backing Sudan's government have killed at least 63 people in attacks in Darfur in the past week, African peacekeepers say. At least 33 of the victims are thought to be children under the age of 12.

The attacks were carried on camps for the displaced in the rebel stronghold of Jebel Moun, in West Darfur. The government says it is disarming the Janjaweed militia but observers in Sudan says all the evidence points to the exact opposite.

The attacks happened on 29 October, when militia wearing government uniforms, on camels and horseback, swept into the camps in Jebel Moun. The African Union (AU) investigation team has just returned from the area to make its report.

The area is a stronghold of the National Redemption Front (NRF) alliance, one of the Darfur rebel group which refused to sign up to a peace deal in May. "The government have begun mobilising the Janjaweed widely, especially in West Darfur, because they want to clear the area and move north along the border and defeat us," said the NRF's Bahr Idriss Abu Garda.

All along the border with Chad, villagers are fleeing terrified as the Janjaweed aggressively take up positions in key towns. Three years ago, at the start of the Darfur crisis, the Janjaweed cleared hundreds of villages by murdering all of the men and boys, raping the women and girls as young as seven, also displacing more than three million people.

With morale in the Sudanese army reported to be low, Khartoum seems to have turned once again to their most brutal of allies, the Janjaweed. The Sudanese government helicopters and small planes provide air cover for the Moslem militia in their raids of black, agrarian villages.

Some 300,000 people have died in Darfur, with the Moslem Janjaweed accused of ethnic cleansing against black Africans. Sudan's government says the scale of the problems has been exaggerated and resists plans for the United Nations to take over the peacekeeping force from the African Union because it is an internal problem and not the business of outsiders.

CFPA: Why is the world not taking a more aggressive approach to this horrendous pogrom? It's simple, One: the victims are black and the world sees their lives as less important as white lives or Arab lives. Two: It is Moslems who are committing the crimes and rather than offend the Islamic world the U.N and the West are taking a light-handed approach. If it were Moslems being exterminated everyone would want to do something about it....wasn't that the excuse they used for going into Bosnia-Herzegovina? This racist pogrom by Islamo-Nazis needs to end and it needs to end NOW!

Interesting note: Last Sunday the "60 Minutes" TV program did a one hour special on what is happening in Darfur and during the entire show the word Moslem was not used even once! And we all know why!

Posted: 03 Nov 2006