Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2008 3:30 am
200,000 Muslims dead in the last five years. . . and all the Islamic world can whine about is Palestinians?
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Sudan's Islamic Terror
By William R. Hawkins
FrontPageMagazine.com | Thursday, June 12, 2008
Luis Moreno-Ocampo, the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, briefed the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) in an open meeting June 5 about his investigation regarding Darfur. He spoke of massive atrocities being committed there and warned, “The entire Darfur region is a crime scene.”
The crimes investigated by the Prosecutor took place during attacks on towns in West Darfur between August 2003 and March 2004. Ahmad Harun and Ali Kushayb are leaders of Janjaweed (Arabic for “men with guns on horseback”) militia groups in league with the Sudan government. These militiamen are primarily members of nomadic Arab tribes who have long been at odds with Darfur's darker-skinned African farmers.
According to the Prosecutor's evidence, the militias assaulted the civilian population, committing mass rapes, killings, torture, looting of residences and shops, and the displacement of the resident community. According to UN sources, at least 200,000 people have been killed and more than 2 million (half of Darfur’s population) are thought to have been turned into refugees as result of the conflict.
In 2003, two non-Arab groups, the Sudan Liberation Movement/Army (SLMA) and the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM), took up arms against the oppressive Sudanese regime. In response to the uprising, the Janjaweed militias began pillaging towns and villages inhabited by members of the African communities from which the rebel armies draw their strength—the Zaghawa, Masalit, and Fur tribes. This conflict in Western Sudan is separate from, but similar to, the 22-year-old civil war that has pitted the Islamic regime against Christian and animist rebels in Southern Sudan. Black Africans make up 52 percent of the Sudanese population, with Arabs accounting for 39 percent. Sudan’s official language is Arabic. Many of the Africans are Sunni Muslims like the Arabs, but race is as important as religion in the civil war. The use of irregular forces to suppress uprisings has been a common tactic in Islamic military history, one that has always produced horrendous crimes against civilians. It is truly the practice of state terrorism.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Re ... B76F1F26ED
Sudan's Islamic Terror
By William R. Hawkins
FrontPageMagazine.com | Thursday, June 12, 2008
Luis Moreno-Ocampo, the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, briefed the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) in an open meeting June 5 about his investigation regarding Darfur. He spoke of massive atrocities being committed there and warned, “The entire Darfur region is a crime scene.”
The crimes investigated by the Prosecutor took place during attacks on towns in West Darfur between August 2003 and March 2004. Ahmad Harun and Ali Kushayb are leaders of Janjaweed (Arabic for “men with guns on horseback”) militia groups in league with the Sudan government. These militiamen are primarily members of nomadic Arab tribes who have long been at odds with Darfur's darker-skinned African farmers.
According to the Prosecutor's evidence, the militias assaulted the civilian population, committing mass rapes, killings, torture, looting of residences and shops, and the displacement of the resident community. According to UN sources, at least 200,000 people have been killed and more than 2 million (half of Darfur’s population) are thought to have been turned into refugees as result of the conflict.
In 2003, two non-Arab groups, the Sudan Liberation Movement/Army (SLMA) and the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM), took up arms against the oppressive Sudanese regime. In response to the uprising, the Janjaweed militias began pillaging towns and villages inhabited by members of the African communities from which the rebel armies draw their strength—the Zaghawa, Masalit, and Fur tribes. This conflict in Western Sudan is separate from, but similar to, the 22-year-old civil war that has pitted the Islamic regime against Christian and animist rebels in Southern Sudan. Black Africans make up 52 percent of the Sudanese population, with Arabs accounting for 39 percent. Sudan’s official language is Arabic. Many of the Africans are Sunni Muslims like the Arabs, but race is as important as religion in the civil war. The use of irregular forces to suppress uprisings has been a common tactic in Islamic military history, one that has always produced horrendous crimes against civilians. It is truly the practice of state terrorism.