With a UN sanctions deadline looming, an international human rights group on Thursday charged that the Sudanese government army was sharing at least five camps with Janjaweed militia blamed for massive ethnic cleansing in western Sudan.
| Boy howdy, these HRW guys are really good, they're only six months behind Rantburg. |
| Not much gets by those guys, by Gum! |
The New York-based Human Rights Watch said the five camps were among 16 Janjaweed militia camps identified through its investigators in West and North Darfur. The United Nations has set a deadline of Monday for Khartoum to comply with its promises to disarm the militia.
| Or else they'll get another deadline, and what will they do then, hah? Hah? Riddle me that! |
The conflict has left at least 30,000 people dead and displaced about 1 million people. Human Rights Watch called for the UN to impose sanctions on the Sudanese government for its "failure to disarm and neutralize the Janjaweed militia" as it has promised. "The existence of these Janjaweed camps shows clearly tha Khartoum is not at all serious about ending atrocities and providing security," said Peter Takirambudde, executive director of the Africa division of Human Rights Watch. "The fact that there are still armed camps filled with killers terrorizing civilians in Darfur makes it impossible for people to go home."
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