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Re: الاطفال فى دارفور يموتون من الجوع (Re: Adil Osman)
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DISGUSTING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ------------------------ 'We Want to Make a Light Baby' > Arab Militiamen in Sudan Said to Use Rape as Weapon of Ethnic Cleansing > > By Emily Wax > Washington Post Foreign Service > Wednesday, June 30, 2004; Page A01 > > GENEINA, Sudan, June 29 -- At first light on Sunday, three young women > walked into a scrubby field just outside their refugee camp in West > Darfur. They had gone out to collect straw for their family's donkeys. > They recalled thinking that the Arab militiamen who were attacking > African tribes at night would still be asleep. But six men grabbed > them, yelling Arabic slurs such as "zurga" and "abid," meaning "black" > and "slave." Then the men raped them, beat them and left them on the > ground, they said. > > "They grabbed my donkey and my straw and said, 'Black girl, you are too > dark. You are like a dog. We want to make a light baby,' " said Sawela > Suliman, 22, showing slashes from where a whip had struck her thighs as > her father held up a police and health report with details of the > attack. "They said, 'You get out of this area and leave the child when > it's made.' " > > Suliman's father, a tall, proud man dressed in a flowing white robe, > cried as she described the rape. It was not an isolated incident, > according to human rights officials and aid workers in this region of > western Sudan, where 1.2 million Africans have been driven from their > lands by government-backed Arab militias, tribal fighters known as > Janjaweed. > > Interviews with two dozen women at camps, schools and health centers in > two provincial capitals in Darfur yielded consistent reports that the > Janjaweed were carrying out waves of attacks targeting African women. > The victims and others said the rapes seemed to be a systematic > campaign to humiliate the women, their husbands and fathers, and to > weaken tribal ethnic lines. In Sudan, as in many Arab cultures, a > child's ethnicity is attached to the ethnicity of the father. > > "The pattern is so clear because they are doing it in such a massive > way and always saying the same thing," said an international aid worker > who is involved in health care. She and other international aid > officials spoke on condition of anonymity, saying they feared reprisals > or delays of permits that might hamper their operations. > > She showed a list of victims from Rokero, a town outside of Jebel Marra > in central Darfur where 400 women said they were raped by the > Janjaweed. "It's systematic," the aid worker said. "Everyone knows how > the father carries the lineage in the culture. They want more Arab > babies to take the land. The scary thing is that I don't think we > realize the extent of how widespread this is yet." > > Another international aid worker, a high-ranking official, said: "These > rapes are built on tribal tensions and orchestrated to create a dynamic > where the African tribal groups are destroyed. It's hard to believe > that they tell them they want to make Arab babies, but it's true. It's > systematic, and these cases are what made me believe that it is part of > ethnic cleansing and that they are doing it in a massive way." > > Secretary of State Colin L. Powell flew to the capital, Khartoum, on > Tuesday to pressure the government to take steps to ease the > humanitarian crisis in Darfur. U.S. officials said Powell may threaten > to seek action by the United Nations if the Sudanese government blocks > aid and continues supporting the Janjaweed. U.N. Secretary General Kofi > Annan is due to arrive on Khartoum this week. > > The crisis in Darfur is a result of long-simmering ethnic tensions > between nomadic cattle and camel herders, who view themselves as Arabs, > and the more sedentary farmers, who see their ancestry as African. In > February 2003, activists from three of Darfur's African tribes started > a rebellion against the government, which is dominated by an Arab elite. > > Riding on horseback and camel, the Janjaweed, many of them teenagers or > young adults, burned villages, stole and destroyed grain supplies and > animals and raped women, according to refugees and U.N. and human > rights investigators. The government used helicopter gunships and aging > Russian planes to bomb the area, the U.N. and human rights > representatives said. The U.S. government has said it is investigating > the killings of an estimated 30,000 people in Darfur and the > displacement of the more than 1 million people from their tribal lands > to determine whether the violence should be classified as genocide. > > The New York-based organization Human Rights Watch said in a June 22 > report that it investigated "the use of rape by both Janjaweed and > Sudanese soldiers against women from the three African ethnic groups > targeted in the 'ethnic cleansing' campaign in Darfur." It added, "The > rapes are often accompanied by dehumanizing epithets, stressing the > ethnic nature of the joint government-Janjaweed campaign. The rapists > use the terms 'slaves' and 'black slaves' to refer to the women, who > are mostly from the Fur, Masalit and Zaghawa ethnic groups." > > Despite a stigma among tribal groups in Sudan against talking about > rape, Darfur elders have been allowing and even encouraging their > daughters to speak out because of the frequency of the attacks. The > women consented to be named in this article. > > In El Fasher, the capital of North Darfur, about 200 miles east of > Geneina, Aisha Arzak Mohammad Adam, 22, described a rape by militiamen. > "They said, 'Dog, you have ####### with me,' " she said. Adam, who was > receiving medical treatment at the Abu Shouk camp, said through a > female interpreter that she was raped 10 days ago and has been > suffering from stomach cramps and bleeding. "They said, 'The government > gave me permission to rape you. This is not your land anymore, abid, > go.' " > > Nearby, Ramadan Adam Ali, 18, a frail woman, was being examined at the > health clinic. She was pregnant from a rape she said took place four > months ago. She is a member of the Fur tribe and has African features. > > "The man said, 'Give me your money, slave,' " she said, starting to > cry. "Then I must tell you very frankly, he raped me. He had a gun to > my head. He called me dirty abid. He said I was very ugly because my > skin is so dark. What will I do now?" > > In Tawilah, a village southeast of El Fasher, women and children are > living in a musty school building. They said it was too dangerous to > leave and plant food. > > Fatima Aisha Mohammad, once a schoolteacher, stood in a dank classroom > describing what happened to her three weeks ago, when she left the > school to collect firewood. > > "Very frankly, they selected us ladies and had what they wanted with > us, like you would a wife," said Mohammad, 46, who has five children. > "I am humiliated. Always they said, 'You are nothing. You are abid. You > are too black.' It was disgusting." > > During a recent visit, government minders warned people at the school > to stop talking about the rapes or face beatings or death. Minders also > were seen handing out bribes to keep women from speaking to foreign > visitors. But those at the school spoke anyway. A group of people > handed a journalist two letters in Arabic that listed 40 names of rape > victims, and wanted the list to be sent to Sen. Sam Brownback of Kansas > and Rep. Frank R. Wolf of Virginia, Republicans who were touring the > region and pressing the government to disarm the Janjaweed. > > "I was sad. I am now very angry. Now they are trying to silence us. And > they can't," Mohammad said. "What will people think of all of us out > here? That we did this to ourselves? People will know the truth about > what is happening in Darfur." > > Later that day in Tawilah's town center, Kalutum Kharm, a midwife, > gathered a crowd under a tree to talk about the rapes. Everyone was > concerned about the children who would be born as a result. > > "What will happen? We don't know how to deal with this," Kharm > lamented. "We are Muslims. Islam says to love children no matter what. > The real problem is we need security. We don't trust the government. We > need this raping to stop." > > Aid workers and refugees in Geneina said that despite an announcement > last week by Sudan's president, Lt. Gen. Omar Hassan Bashir, that the > Janjaweed would be disarmed, security had not improved. Janjaweed > dressed in military uniforms and clutching satellite phones roamed the > markets and the fields, guns slung over their shoulders. Last week, the > Janjaweed staged a jailbreak and freed 13 people, aid workers said. > They also killed a watermelon salesman and his brother because they did > not like their prices, family members of the men said. > > A government official, speaking with a reporter, described the rapes as > an inevitable part of war and dismissed accusations by human rights > organizations that the attacks were ethnically based. > > In Geneina, two women told their stories while sitting in front of > their makeshift straw shelter. One of the women, a thin 19-year-old > with dead eyes, moved forward. > > "I am feeling so shy but I wanted to tell you, I was raped too that > day," whispered Aisha Adam, the tears rushing out of her eyes as she > covered her face with her head scarf. "They left me without my clothing > by the dry riverbed. I had to walk back naked. They said, 'You slave. > This is not your area. I will make an Arab baby who can have this > land.' I am hurting now so much, because no one will marry me if they > find out." > > Sitting on mats outside the shelter, Sawela Suliman's father talked > with village elders about what to do if his daughter became pregnant. > > "If the color is like the mother, fine," he said as a crowd gathered to > listen. "If it is like the father, then we will have problems. People > will think the child is an Arab." > > Then his daughter looked up. > > "I will love the child," she said, as other women in the crowd agreed. > "But I will always hate the father." > > Then the rains came. They pounded onto the family's frail shelter, > turning their roof into a soggy and dripping clump of straw. Suliman > started to shiver as the weather shifted from steaming hot to a breezy > rain. She will no longer leave the area of her hut to collect straw. > She will stay here, hiding as if in prison, she said, and praying that > she is not pregnant. > > > > > > Manu Krishnan > > Program Associate > > Human Rights Watch
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الاطفال فى دارفور يموتون من الجوع | Adil Osman | 06-09-04, 08:48 PM |
Re: الاطفال فى دارفور يموتون من الجوع | nada ali | 06-09-04, 08:59 PM |
Re: الاطفال فى دارفور يموتون من الجوع | Tumadir | 06-09-04, 09:08 PM |
Re: الاطفال فى دارفور يموتون من الجوع | برير اسماعيل يوسف | 07-08-04, 03:41 AM |
Re: الاطفال فى دارفور يموتون من الجوع | Adil Osman | 06-09-04, 09:20 PM |
Re: الاطفال فى دارفور يموتون من الجوع | Ahmed Al Bashir | 06-09-04, 09:26 PM |
Re: الاطفال فى دارفور يموتون من الجوع | Tumadir | 06-09-04, 09:50 PM |
Re: الاطفال فى دارفور يموتون من الجوع | Adil Osman | 06-09-04, 09:40 PM |
Re: الاطفال فى دارفور يموتون من الجوع | Tumadir | 06-09-04, 09:52 PM |
Re: الاطفال فى دارفور يموتون من الجوع | Adil Osman | 06-09-04, 10:03 PM |
Re: الاطفال فى دارفور يموتون من الجوع | Tumadir | 06-09-04, 10:09 PM |
Re: الاطفال فى دارفور يموتون من الجوع | Ashraf Mahmoud | 06-09-04, 10:16 PM |
Re: الاطفال فى دارفور يموتون من الجوع | تولوس | 06-09-04, 10:38 PM |
Re: الاطفال فى دارفور يموتون من الجوع | elsharief | 06-09-04, 10:43 PM |
Re: الاطفال فى دارفور يموتون من الجوع | Imad El amin | 06-09-04, 10:48 PM |
Re: الاطفال فى دارفور يموتون من الجوع | Imad El amin | 06-09-04, 10:51 PM |
Re: الاطفال فى دارفور يموتون من الجوع | محمد اشرف | 06-09-04, 11:01 PM |
Re: الاطفال فى دارفور يموتون من الجوع | أحمد أمين | 06-09-04, 11:14 PM |
Re: الاطفال فى دارفور يموتون من الجوع | elsharief | 06-09-04, 11:23 PM |
Re: الاطفال فى دارفور يموتون من الجوع | محمد اشرف | 06-09-04, 11:13 PM |
Re: الاطفال فى دارفور يموتون من الجوع | Elnasri Amin | 06-09-04, 11:50 PM |
Re: الاطفال فى دارفور يموتون من الجوع | Abdalla Hussain | 06-09-04, 11:53 PM |
Re: الاطفال فى دارفور يموتون من الجوع | Ahmed Osman | 06-10-04, 00:16 AM |
Re: الاطفال فى دارفور يموتون من الجوع | أحمد أمين | 06-10-04, 00:29 AM |
Re: الاطفال فى دارفور يموتون من الجوع | Ash | 06-10-04, 00:30 AM |
Re: الاطفال فى دارفور يموتون من الجوع | Tumadir | 06-10-04, 01:12 AM |
Re: الاطفال فى دارفور يموتون من الجوع | degna | 06-10-04, 02:37 AM |
Re: الاطفال فى دارفور يموتون من الجوع | إيمان أحمد | 06-10-04, 02:46 AM |
Re: الاطفال فى دارفور يموتون من الجوع | Elmosley | 06-10-04, 03:05 AM |
Re: الاطفال فى دارفور يموتون من الجوع | Elsuhaili Magzoub | 06-10-04, 03:10 AM |
Re: الاطفال فى دارفور يموتون من الجوع | zumrawi | 06-10-04, 03:14 AM |
Re: الاطفال فى دارفور يموتون من الجوع | bashir kurdufan | 06-10-04, 04:17 AM |
Re: الاطفال فى دارفور يموتون من الجوع | بكرى ابوبكر | 06-10-04, 04:30 AM |
Re: الاطفال فى دارفور يموتون من الجوع | محمد حسن العمدة | 08-12-04, 06:39 AM |
Re: الاطفال فى دارفور يموتون من الجوع | ahmed haneen | 06-10-04, 05:51 AM |
Re: الاطفال فى دارفور يموتون من الجوع | fasil dousa | 06-10-04, 07:34 AM |
Re: الاطفال فى دارفور يموتون من الجوع | fasil dousa | 06-10-04, 07:47 AM |
Re: الاطفال فى دارفور يموتون من الجوع | sama7-au | 06-10-04, 07:05 AM |
Re: الاطفال فى دارفور يموتون من الجوع | رقية وراق | 06-10-04, 07:59 AM |
Re: الاطفال فى دارفور يموتون من الجوع | adil amin | 06-10-04, 07:36 AM |
Re: الاطفال فى دارفور يموتون من الجوع | ahmed haneen | 06-10-04, 07:48 AM |
Re: الاطفال فى دارفور يموتون من الجوع | Yasir Elsharif | 06-10-04, 07:56 AM |
Re: الاطفال فى دارفور يموتون من الجوع | ahmed haneen | 06-10-04, 09:43 AM |
Re: الاطفال فى دارفور يموتون من الجوع | Tumadir | 06-10-04, 09:48 AM |
Re: الاطفال فى دارفور يموتون من الجوع | Salwa Seyam | 06-10-04, 12:15 PM |
Re: الاطفال فى دارفور يموتون من الجوع | Tumadir | 06-10-04, 12:33 PM |
Re: الاطفال فى دارفور يموتون من الجوع | nada ali | 06-10-04, 01:07 PM |
Re: الاطفال فى دارفور يموتون من الجوع | hamid hajer | 06-10-04, 01:14 PM |
Re: الاطفال فى دارفور يموتون من الجوع | Raja | 06-10-04, 01:26 PM |
الاطفال فى دار فور | mohmmed said ahmed | 06-10-04, 01:55 PM |
Re: الاطفال فى دار فور | abdelrahim abayazid | 06-10-04, 02:52 PM |
Re: الاطفال فى دار فور | abdelrahim abayazid | 06-10-04, 03:00 PM |
Re: الاطفال فى دارفور يموتون من الجوع | عدلان أحمد عبدالعزيز | 06-10-04, 03:11 PM |
Re: الاطفال فى دارفور يموتون من الجوع | fasil dousa | 06-10-04, 03:38 PM |
Re: الاطفال فى دارفور يموتون من الجوع | Tumadir | 06-10-04, 04:23 PM |
Re: الاطفال فى دارفور يموتون من الجوع | هاشم نوريت | 06-10-04, 04:40 PM |
Re: الاطفال فى دارفور يموتون من الجوع | Kostawi | 06-10-04, 05:09 PM |
Re: الاطفال فى دارفور يموتون من الجوع | Tumadir | 06-10-04, 05:37 PM |
Re: الاطفال فى دارفور يموتون من الجوع | Kostawi | 06-10-04, 05:50 PM |
Re: الاطفال فى دارفور يموتون من الجوع | ahmed haneen | 06-10-04, 06:06 PM |
Re: الاطفال فى دارفور يموتون من الجوع | Rawia | 06-10-04, 06:27 PM |
Re: الاطفال فى دارفور يموتون من الجوع | Elnasri Amin | 06-10-04, 07:09 PM |
Re: الاطفال فى دارفور يموتون من الجوع | omar_ragab | 06-10-04, 07:25 PM |
Re: الاطفال فى دارفور يموتون من الجوع | Kobista | 06-10-04, 07:54 PM |
Re: الاطفال فى دارفور يموتون من الجوع | Adil Osman | 06-10-04, 08:20 PM |
Re: الاطفال فى دارفور يموتون من الجوع | Adil Osman | 06-10-04, 08:34 PM |
Re: الاطفال فى دارفور يموتون من الجوع | أحمد أمين | 06-10-04, 10:48 PM |
Re: الاطفال فى دارفور يموتون من الجوع | عبدالعظيم عبدالله | 06-10-04, 11:10 PM |
Re: الاطفال فى دارفور يموتون من الجوع | Rawia | 06-10-04, 11:54 PM |
Re: الاطفال فى دارفور يموتون من الجوع | WALEED YASSIN | 06-11-04, 00:28 AM |
Re: الاطفال فى دارفور يموتون من الجوع | ودرملية | 06-11-04, 00:37 AM |
Re: الاطفال فى دارفور يموتون من الجوع | Rawia | 06-11-04, 03:38 AM |
Re: الاطفال فى دارفور يموتون من الجوع | hamid hajer | 06-11-04, 09:17 AM |
Re: الاطفال فى دارفور يموتون من الجوع | fasil dousa | 06-12-04, 09:22 AM |
Re: الاطفال فى دارفور يموتون من الجوع | Abdel Aati | 06-16-04, 00:31 AM |
Re: الاطفال فى دارفور يموتون من الجوع | عوض الله الفولانى | 07-09-04, 05:20 AM |
Re: الاطفال فى دارفور يموتون من الجوع | Elbagir Osman | 08-01-04, 11:29 PM |
لا لموت أطفال دار فور | بدرالدين شنا | 06-11-04, 04:20 AM |
Re: لا لموت أطفال دار فور | الجندرية | 06-11-04, 05:45 AM |
Re: الاطفال فى دارفور يموتون من الجوع | luai | 06-11-04, 08:32 AM |
Re: الاطفال فى دارفور يموتون من الجوع | omer almahi | 06-11-04, 08:56 AM |
Re: الاطفال فى دارفور يموتون من الجوع | Tumadir | 06-11-04, 09:37 AM |
Re: الاطفال فى دارفور يموتون من الجوع | theNile | 06-11-04, 09:38 AM |
Re: الاطفال فى دارفور يموتون من الجوع | nada ali | 06-11-04, 09:49 AM |
Re: الاطفال فى دارفور يموتون من الجوع | nada ali | 06-11-04, 09:51 AM |
Re: الاطفال فى دارفور يموتون من الجوع | أحمد أمين | 06-11-04, 11:00 AM |
Re: الاطفال فى دارفور يموتون من الجوع | Rawia | 06-11-04, 01:31 PM |
Re: الاطفال فى دارفور يموتون من الجوع | abdelrahim abayazid | 06-11-04, 04:18 PM |
Re: الاطفال فى دارفور يموتون من الجوع | Adil Osman | 06-11-04, 07:15 PM |
Re: الاطفال فى دارفور يموتون من الجوع | alfatih | 06-11-04, 08:22 PM |
Re: الاطفال فى دارفور يموتون من الجوع | coolcom | 06-12-04, 01:01 AM |
Re: الاطفال فى دارفور يموتون من الجوع | nada ali | 06-12-04, 07:29 AM |
Re: الاطفال فى دارفور يموتون من الجوع | ahmed haneen | 06-12-04, 08:54 AM |
Re: الاطفال فى دارفور يموتون من الجوع | Tumadir | 06-12-04, 09:01 AM |
Re: الاطفال فى دارفور يموتون من الجوع | ahmed haneen | 06-12-04, 10:14 AM |
Re: الاطفال فى دارفور يموتون من الجوع | Adil Osman | 06-12-04, 12:15 PM |
Re: الاطفال فى دارفور يموتون من الجوع | Kobista | 06-12-04, 01:33 PM |
Re: الاطفال فى دارفور يموتون من الجوع | إيمان أحمد | 06-12-04, 11:53 PM |
Re: الاطفال فى دارفور يموتون من الجوع | Zoal Wahid | 06-13-04, 06:18 AM |
Re: الاطفال فى دارفور يموتون من الجوع | Kobista | 06-13-04, 10:38 AM |
Re: الاطفال فى دارفور يموتون من الجوع | ahmed haneen | 06-13-04, 11:18 AM |
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