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From Human Right Watch


NAMES AND DETAILS OF JANJAWEED CAMPS IN DARFUR

Listed below are the 16 camps (camp names are given by victims and rebels). Human Rights Watch noted that the list is not exhaustive and refers mainly to camps in West and North Darfur.

Other Janjaweed camps, not in the list below, that have been identified include Mistiriyah, the main base for Janjaweed militia leader Musa Hilal located outside Kebkabiya town, and new camps that have been established over the past three months, including at Saraf Omra in North Darfur; Mercoondi in South Darfur; and Um Dukhun, Buram, and Abugradil in West Darfur.

USTANI
Location: west of Serif Omra (also the location of an IDP camp), near Hashaba, on the road between Geneina and Kebkabiya, West Darfur
Opened: June 2003
Composition: Janjaweed commanders (very few fighters) and not less than 200 Sudanese government troops
Name of Janjaweed commander: Ahmed Jeladi
Structure: Houses and tents, airstrip for helicopter (only the Sudan government has helicopters and aircraft)
Notable for: First Janjaweed camp opened; Janjaweed headquarters for all North Darfur (Darfur was previously divided into North and South Darfur, and this headquarters has jurisdiction over the old North Darfur, including most of an area that is now West Darfur)

JEBEL KAYA
Location: 30 kilometers east of Geneina, between Geneina and Hashaba, West Darfur, in the mountains
Opened: June 2003
Composition: Janjaweed only, number unknown
Structure: airstrip for helicopter
Notable for: Janjaweed headquarters for West Darfur; livestock stolen in North and West Darfur kept here. Most Janjaweed camps are provided with sheep from this location, and the sheep are sometimes transported by helicopter to other camps.

GIRGIGIRGI
Location: 85 kilometers northeast of Geneina, West Darfur
Opened: September 2003
Composition: Janjaweed only, number unknown (this was the base of the now-deceased Janjaweed leader Shurkutallah)
Structure: old village, civilians driven out

DAMRA SHEIKH ABDEL BAGUI
Location: 10 kilometers west of Kutum (location of IDP camp), North Darfur
Opened: November 2003
Composition: Eighty Janjaweed; unknown number of Sudanese government and/or police
Names of Janjaweed commanders: Omda Adam Abdel Jalli, Jedou Adam Abdel Nabi
Structure: Tents

MASRY
Location: 7 kilometers southwest of Kutum (location of IDP camp), North Darfur
Opened: August 2003
Composition: Janjaweed and Sudanese government army troops, 500 altogether (majority Janjaweed)
Names of Janjaweed commanders (three brothers): Abdel Jabar Abdallah Gibrin, Georgi Abdallah Gibrin, Hassan Abdallah Gibrin
Structure: Old occupied village
Equipment: Well equipped, all types of weapons

MILLA (30 villages)
Location: 75 kilometers northeast of Kebkabiya, North Darfur
Composition: Janjaweed only, more than 300
Name of Janjaweed commander: Abdul Wahid (retired government army soldier)
Structure: occupied villages, civilians (Fur, Tunjur, Zaghawa) driven out
Equipment: six vehicles

UM SAYALA (Lumlum, Alku, Hilla Khater, El Haj Oulad Babay, Um Hamnoki villages) (Um Sayala is the location of an IDP camp)
Location: 20 kilometers east of Kutum, 5 kilometers west of Um Hiaye, North Darfur
Opened: late 2003
Composition: Janjaweed and Sudanese government army troops together totaling 300
Names of Janjaweed commanders: Yohanes Abdallah Jadallah (Itefat tribe), Illei Ahmed Taher (Jallul tribe), Abdelhazim Ibrahim Abdallah Jadallah (Itefat), Mohamad Saleh Ibrahim Abdallah
Structure: occupied villages, civilians (Tunjur, Mima) driven out
Notable for: More than one hundred villagers reportedly were killed when the camp was installed, sixty-nine in Lumlum alone.
Note: visited by African Union ceasefire monitors on July 11, 2004 (the government of
Sudan complained of an attack on their forces at Um Sayala on July 3, but the A.U. ceasefire monitors after investigation concluded that no such attack could be verified)

FUNU
Location: west of Kutum (location of IDP camp), West Darfur
Opened: January 2004
Composition: Janjaweed and Sudanese government army troops (separated by a wadi or seasonal riverbed)
Numbers: The number of Janjaweed varies but never less than 200; Sudanese government troops, 300.
Structures: No tents during the dry season, Janjaweed camp under the trees
Equipment: well equipped, most types of weapons the Sudanese government possesses (sometime brought by helicopter)
Notable for: Stolen livestock kept here

UM HEGLIG
Location: northeast of Mellit (east of Kutum; both locations of IDP camps), North Darfur
Opened: January 2004
Composition: Janjaweed only, number unknown but high rotation

KUMA
Location: 60 kilometers east of El Fasher, North Darfur
Composition: Janjaweed only, number unknown
Structure: camp installed outside the village of Kuma

ABU JIDAD
Location: 60 kilometers south of Karnoi, West Darfur
Opened: May 2004
Composition: Janjaweed only, no less than 500
Structure: Occupied farms (farmers cannot access their houses or fields)
Equipment: many weapons and five vehicles provided by the Sudanese government

ISHARAYA
Location: 75 kilometers south of Nyala, 3 kilometers north of Buram, South Darfur
Opened: May 15, 2004
Composition: Janjaweed only, number unknown
Structure: occupied farm villages, civilians (Binga, Mima, Kretch, some Masalit) driven out
Equipment: three or four cars and horses

KURGUE (15 villages), extension of Funu camp
Location: 85 kilometers west of Kutum, east of Funu camp, West Darfur
Opened: June 2004
Composition: Janjaweed only, about 200
Structure: old occupied villages (well, mosque), civilians (Fur, Zaghawa, Tunjur) driven out
Equipment: well equipped by Sudanese government; trucks, horses, and camels

ASSALAYA
Location: east of Nyala, 40 kilometers west of Ed Da’ein, 5 kilometers north of an Sudanese government army base, South Darfur
Opened: July 2004
Composition: Janjaweed and Sudanese government army troops, numbers unknown
Structure: airstrip for helicopter
Equipment: same as government army troops

RAZALLAH JAWAZAT
Location: east of Nyala, 8 kilometers west of Ed Da’ein, South Darfur
Opened: July 2004
Composition: Janjaweed only, 200
Structure: occupied villages, civilians (Borgo, Bergid, Sam Tama, Berti) driven out
Equipment: vehicles, horses, and some camels

TAISHA
Location: 17 kilometers east of Nyala (IDP camps in Intifida and Kalma, east of Nyala), west of Labadu, South Darfur
Opened: July 2004
Composition: Janjaweed only, number unknown
Structure: occupied villages, civilians (Dayo ethnic group) driven out