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	Janjaweed militias massing in Sudan: AU source - Boston.com
		Janjaweed militias have been concentrating forces to the north of el-Geneina, the capital of Sudan's West Darfur state, an African Union military source said on Tuesday, corroborating a U.N. report.
		Janjaweed militias have been concentrating forces to the north of el-Geneina, the capital of West Darfur state in western Sudan, an African Union military source said on Tuesday, corroborating a U.N. report.
		Janjaweed is the local name for militia forces drawn mainly from the nomadic Arab tribes of the area and blamed for much of the killing in Darfur over the past four years.
	www.boston.com /news/world/africa/articles/2007/02/20/janjaweed_militias_massing_in_sudan_au_source (784 words)

	Who are the Janjaweed? - By Brendan I. Koerner - Slate Magazine
		In fact, the term "Janjaweed" has for years been synonymous with bandit, as these horse- or camel-borne fighters were known to swoop in on non-Arab farms to steal cattle.
		In response to the uprising, the Janjaweed militias began pillaging towns and villages inhabited by members of the African tribes from which the rebel armies draw their strength—the Zaghawa, Masalit, and Fur tribes.
		There are numerous reports from international aid workers maintaining that Janjaweed raids are preceded by aerial bombardments by the Sudanese air force, that Janjaweed commanders are living in government garrison towns, and that Janjaweed militiamen wear combat fatigues identical to those of the regular army.
	www.slate.com /id/2104210 (581 words)

	Janjaweed, and peace, are elusive in Darfur - Africa & Middle East - International Herald Tribune
		Whoever their commander is and whatever they are called, the future of these men and the weapons they carry will determine whether - after three years of conflict that have left at least 200,000 dead - the fragile efforts to bring peace to this shattered region will succeed or fail.
		The militias that came to be known as the janjaweed were deployed as a kind of counterinsurgency proxy force that the government used in place of and sometimes alongside its military.
		The janjaweed so far have not respected the new peace agreement, attacking rebel-held towns in the area of Kutum in northern Darfur and Shearia in south Darfur, killing dozens of people.
	www.iht.com /articles/2006/06/12/news/darfur.php (1273 words)

	Man who claims to be former janjaweed fighter recalls Darfur atrocities - iht,europe,Britain Darfur - Europe - ...
		Abdel-Rahim Hussein, a former interior minister and current minister for defense, had issued orders to janjaweed to carry out attacks in Darfur, saying the janjaweed is a group of outlaws and rebels that the Sudanese government and its army are fighting.
		It agreed to disarm the janjaweed as part of a tattered peace agreement it signed in May with the main Darfur rebel group.
		An AP reporter recently saw a convoy of janjaweed driving toward a forward base near the northern town of Kutum, where they are reportedly gathering in their hundreds.
	www.iht.com /articles/ap/2006/10/18/europe/EU_GEN_Britain_Darfur.php (841 words)

	Embassy of Sudan in South Africa - Peace Efforts \| The Janjaweed (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		According to Sudanese Arabic, which is a distinguished indigenous in Sudan, the word Janjaweed is an acronym composed of three words; jan, jawad and jim; which may be translated into English to give the meaning of djinn, horse and the German machine gun known as G-3 or 4, respectively.
		However, the reason that aggravated the recent events in Darfur, particularly after February 2004, when the name Janjaweed found much publicity in the western media, was the intensity of the attacks, their widespread and the quality of weaponry used in the tribal warfare which involved both nomadic and sedentary communities.
		The involvement of the Janjaweed in the recent conflict has been a result of direct attacks against their respective communities either by the JEM, SLM or groups allied with them.
	www.sudani.co.za /peace_janjaweed.htm (1315 words)

	Janjaweed - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Using the United Nations definition, the Janjaweed comprises fighters claiming Arabic-speaking fl African background[1], the core of which are from an Abbala (camel herder) background with significant recruitment from the Baggara (cattle herder) people.
		The Janjaweed are a militia drawn from Darfurian and Chadian Arab-speaking tribes that became notorious for massacre, rape and forced displacement in 2003-2004.
		A large number of world leaders and countries have declared the Janjaweed killings in Darfur to be genocide, since they have killed an estimated 100,000 civilians in the last three years.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Janjaweed (795 words)

	SudanTribune article : Janjaweed militia kills 2 civilians in North Darfur capital
		Mistiria is the home town and base of Musa Hilal, the alleged coordinator of the militia known as the Janjaweed who have been accused of committing atrocities in the conflict in Darfur.
		The government is accused of unleashing the janjaweed - Arab tribal fighters - to help counter the ethnic African rebels, and the militia are blamed for the worst atrocities against civilians during the conflict.
		Janjaweed then attacked demonstrators carrying his body to the residence of the regional governor and killed at least one person, the official said.
	www.sudantribune.com /spip.php?article19167 (779 words)

	Inside the Janjaweed: how one man escaped the ethnic cleansing in Darfur \| International \| The Observer
		The Janjaweed returned to their camp at midnight, leading camels laden with the booty of a bitter guerrilla war; blankets, radios, the suitcases in which Sudanese villagers keep their clothes, and herds of stolen goats and sheep.
		According to a witness - a youth who was recruited to the Janjaweed, but deserted - the militiamen had been roused for battle with songs and speeches that declared all fl civilians to be their enemies.
		Last week, it emerged that a group of Janjaweed were responsible for one of the most horrifying atrocities of the conflict, in which a group of African villagers were chained together and burnt alive in a marketplace.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /international/story/0,6903,1273716,00.html (1315 words)

	Riding With The Janjaweed
		He was released from prison to help reorganise the traditional Janjaweed Arab militias as a government- supported fighting force to put down the rebellion of African people in Darfur.
		They formed alliances in the 1980s with the Janjaweed, who were seizing cattle from fl tribes for export by the Jellaba to Libya, Syria and Jordan.
		O'Fahey believes that now the Janjaweed genie is fully out of the bottle, it will be almost impossible for the Khartoum government to put it back again, even if it wished to and despite the international community's demands that it do so.
	www.rense.com /general56/ridingwiththejanjaweed.htm (1519 words)

	SudanTribune article : Janjaweed militia kills 3 students in North Darfur capital
		Dec 06, 2006 (KHARTOUM) — Pro-government janjaweed militiamen killed three students in one of Darfur’s main towns, where the situation was highly volatile Wednesday, as rebels massed outside the town shaken by protests and riots, a U.N. official in Darfur said.
		The government is accused of unleashing the janjaweed — Arab tribal fighters — to help it put down the rebellion by ethnic Africans, and the janjaweed are blamed for widespread atrocities against civilians.
		On Wednesday, two students in a group demonstrating against the assault were also slain by janjaweed, an aid worker and an U.N. official in Al Fasher said, on conditions of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue.
	www.sudantribune.com /spip.php?article19114 (754 words)

	The New York Review of Books: Genocide in Slow Motion
		First, the Janjaweed and Sudanese government leaders are Arabs and their victims in Darfur are members of several non-Arab African tribes, particularly the Zaghawa, Fur, and Masalit.
		Third, the Janjaweed are often nomadic herdsmen, and the tribes they attack are usually settled farmers, so the conflict also reflects the age-old tension between herders and farmers.
		The leader of the Janjaweed, whom the Sudanese government entrusted with the initial waves of slaughter in Darfur, is usually said to be Musa Hilal, the chief of an Arab nomadic tribe.
	www.nybooks.com /articles/18674 (4166 words)

	The Online NewsHour: Crisis in Sudan \| Janjaweed Militia \| PBS
		The Janjaweed have primarily targeted the Fur, Tunjur, Masalit and Zaghawa ethnic groups, presumed to be sympathetic to rebels opposing the government.
		The Janjaweed are both "cleaning" the land of non-Arabs and viciously combating the rebellion while receiving impunity from the government in Khartoum, de Waal said.
		The Janjaweed has been a key force in the government's campaign in Darfur "that has resulted in the murder, rape and forced displacement of thousands of civilians," said Human Rights Watch, a nonprofit organization particularly concerned about Darfur.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/indepth_coverage/africa/darfur/militia.html (961 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > World -- Janjaweed militias massing in Sudan – AU source
		KHARTOUM –; Janjaweed militias have been concentrating forces to the north of el-Geneina, the capital of Sudan's West Darfur state, an African Union military source said on Tuesday, corroborating a U.N. report.
		A former rebel movement said a separate Janjaweed force has been attacking villages far to the east of the Darfur region for the past two days, killing six civilians.
		Khamis said the militia were using heavy weaponry given to them by the government, and the attacks were a 'blatant violation' of the Darfur peace agreement.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/world/20070220-0656-sudan-darfur-janjaweed.html (573 words)

	espac.org - A WORD THAT MEANS EVERYTHING AND NOTHING - THE JANJAWEED (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The “Janjaweed” phenomena is one such image and with it comes a demand, that the government of Sudan immediately stop all Janjaweed activity and disarm these people.
		“Janjaweed means nothing, but it is a word used to encompass all evil, a convenient way for Americans to understand who are the good guys and who are the bad.
		Those who attribute every single act of violence or criminality to the “Janjaweed” and claim that all these acts are on the instructions of the Sudanese government are either naïve or are seeking to deliberately mislead the international community.
	www.espac.org /darfur/the-janweed.asp (3475 words)

	News: Sudan, Janjaweed, rebels spread Darfur bloodshed to Chad
		Janjaweed are reportedly still in the area, which is tense despite the deployment of a small unit of Chadian soldiers.
		The apparent alliance of Chadian rebels with Sudanese Janjaweed also increases border tension, with Chadian and Sudanese officials trading blame over rebel attacks despite a string of top-level agreements to mend ties.
		The Janjaweed come from Sudan, the rebels are Chadian but they've come from Sudanese territory," said local administrative chief Bahit.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/KHII-6UQ5UG?OpenDocument (652 words)

	Janjaweed accused of new Darfur killings - Boston.com
		The rebels said janjaweed militias and elements from the regular Sudanese army burned about 100 houses and looted hundreds of heads of cattle.
		A U.N. official in Darfur said the janjaweed had looted several villages and a refugee camp in the past few days, reportedly killing about 12 people.
		The casualty figures from the rebels could not be independently verified, and Sudanese government officials were not immediately available to comment on the accusations.
	www.boston.com /news/world/europe/articles/2006/11/12/janjaweed_accused_of_new_darfur_killings?mode=PF (551 words)

	Janjaweed Attack in Chad Causes Panic Among Sudanese Refugees
		She says the local population described the men as janjaweed militia.
		The janjaweed, who are Arab fighters supported by the Sudanese government, have been waging war against fl African inhabitants of Darfur for the past three years.
		Several hundred internally displaced Chadians have also settled near the camp in recent weeks, having fled earlier janjaweed attacks for the relative safety they hope to find in the refugee camp," he said.
	www.voanews.com /english/2006-05-02-voa60.cfm (524 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Africa \| Sudan's shadowy Arab militia
		The Janjaweed have attacked fl Africans from the Fur, Massaleet and Zagawa ethnic groups with a ruthlessness that has not been seen in the region for some time, report aid agencies and the refugees themselves.
		The BBC's Alfred Taban in Khartoum says the number of the Janjaweed is reported to be very small, maybe a few thousand, but they are well armed with automatic weapons and ride well-fed horses and camels.
		The Janjaweed are nomads and they have been hard hit by desertification, which has greatly diminished water resources and pasture in Darfur.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/africa/3613953.stm (628 words)

	afrol News - Janjaweed "leader" says Sudan govt supported militia
		Widely regarded as the top Janjaweed leader in Darfur, Musa Hilal was interviewed over the course of several hours by human rights researchers in Khartoum, where he said he got his orders from the government.
		Janjaweed leader Hilal was interviewed by the New York-based group Human Rights Watch, which earlier has claimed there was a link between the Janjaweed and the Khartoum government.
		The Janjaweed militia is accused of terrible war crimes comparable to genocide, but the Khartoum government has maintained it had no powers to stop the militia's operations in Darfur.
	www.afrol.com /articles/15824 (811 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| Region \| Sudan in the dock (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Such a move could be tantamount to political suicide, for the Janjaweed are an important component of the Sudanese regime's constituency.
		The hawks are even persuading the Janjaweed militias, who are accused by the UN and human rights groups of war crimes, to dissolve quietly into the Sudanese army.
		The UN has so far ruled out military intervention even though both the United States and the European Union have signalled that if a peaceful diplomatic settlement to the Darfur crisis is not reached and the humanitarian situation does not improve then international military intervention would have to be considered an option.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /2004/704/re7.htm (1007 words)

	Darfur Information.com
		Janjaweed militias are being reined in, insists Sudan's FM.
		Arab militias, known as Janjaweed, have been accused by the UN as well as several western governments of terrorising African villagers through rape, murder and pillage.
		Janjaweed militias are being reined in, insists Sudan's FM Sudan tells Chad it will help fight Arab militia
	www.darfurinformation.com /janjaweed_reined_in.asp (956 words)

	Talk:Janjaweed - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		According to an npr news article (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5358216), janjaweed is "loosely translated" "devils on horseback." Someone, please edit this story and do not be afraid to set the record straight on the absolutely horrific atrocities that are being committed each day (even as we discuss this very issue).
		The commonly held view is that "Janjaweed" combines "jan" the Arabic for "evil jinni, ghoul" and "jawad," the Arabic for "horse": horsemen bent on wickedness.
		The Janjaweed have little in the way of an ideology, and their aims are not very clear.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Talk:Janjaweed (2852 words)

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