A leading human rights organization Thursday published the most detailed independent account yet of Sudan’s alleged complicity in the “ethnic cleansing” of more than a million tribal villagers in Darfur province and the killing of thousands more. The 75-page report, by New York-based Human Rights Watch, charges that the Sudanese military, working with Arab militias, has committed massacres and burned villages, towns and mosques as part of a campaign to depopulate large swaths of Sudan’s largest province, which has served as a base for rebels. “The government of Sudan is responsible for ‘ethnic cleansing’ and crimes against humanity in Darfur,” according to the report, based on a 25-day investigation in and around the province. “The Sudanese government and the Arab ‘Janjaweed’ militias it arms and supports . . . have killed thousands of [ethnic] Fur, Masalit and Zaghawa — often in cold blood.” Full Story
About OODA Analyst
OODA is comprised of a unique team of international experts capable of providing advanced intelligence and analysis, strategy and planning support, risk and threat management, training, decision support, crisis response, and security services to global corporations and governments.