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Where is West Darfur?

I think I’m gonna be sick.

The Human Rights Watch site has a map of the region.

Human Rights Watch:


The government of Sudan is responsible for "ethnic cleansing" and crimes against humanity in Darfur, one of the world�s poorest and most inaccessible regions, on Sudan�s western border with Chad. The Sudanese government and the Arab "Janjaweed" militias it arms and supports have committed numerous attacks on the civilian populations of the African Fur, Masalit and Zaghawa ethnic groups. Government forces oversaw and directly participated in massacres, summary executions of civilians-including women and children — burnings of towns and villages, and the forcible depopulation of wide swathes of land long inhabited by the Fur, Masalit and Zaghawa. The Janjaweed militias, Muslim like the African groups they attack, have destroyed mosques, killed Muslim religious leaders, and desecrated Qorans belonging to their enemies.

‘We Want to Make a Light Baby’ (washingtonpost.com):

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.

‘Powell and Annan See Hints of Disaster in Sudan’ (nytimes.com, reg required):

Both Mr. Powell and Mr. Annan said they delivered stern warnings to the government, which sought to crush two rebel movements in Darfur in early 2003 by unleashing Arab militias on the local population of black Africans. More than a million people have been expelled from their homes since, and deaths are said to have run into the tens of thousands.