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Darfur: Assault on Survival
A Call for Security, Justice, and Restitution
February 2006
Physicians for Human Rights
For over two years, the Government of Sudan and their ruthless proxy militias, the Janjaweed, carried out a systematic campaign of destruction against specific population groups, their way of life and all that sustains them. This report by Physicians for Human Rights tells the story of Darfurian lives and livelihoods obliterated in three of the hundreds of villages literally wiped off the map by the genocidal killers, who also pillaged, plundered, and pursued men, women and children in an all-out assault on the very survival of a population.
The Use of Rape As A Weapon of War In the Conflict in Darfur, Sudan
Tara Gingerich, J.D.
Jennifer Leaning, M.D., S.M.H.
Physicians for Human Rights
Rape as a weapon of war has a long history; only recently has it been expressly punished under codified international law. In the current conflict in Darfur, tens of thousands of civilians have been systematically killed, raped, and starved: this report makes use of extensive interviews and published literature to qualitatively assess the nature, circumstances and context of rape as a weapon in the nation's on-going war.
Darfur Destroyed
Ethnic Cleansing by Government and Militia Forces in Western Sudan
Human Rights Watch
This 77-page report documents how Sudanese government forces have overseen and directly participated in massacres, summary executions of civilians, burnings of towns and villages, and the forcible depopulation of wide swathes of land long-inhabited by the Fur, Masalit and Zaghawa ethnic groups. The report also documents how Janjaweed Arab militias — whose members are Muslim — have destroyed mosques, killed Muslim religious leaders and desecrated Korans belonging to their enemies.
Darfur and Beyond
What is Needed to Prevent Mass Atrocities
Lee Feinstein, Senior Fellow for US Foreign Policy and International Law
Council on Foreign Relations
Senior Fellow Lee Feinstein points to the UN's acceptance of the notion that sovereignty may need to be compromised when a government is unable or unwilling to provide for the basic needs of those within its state borders. The challenge for the United States and the international community is to translate this principle into practice. To that end, this report recommends that the new UN secretary-general take genocide prevention as a mission statement and mandate, and place it at the center of his and his organization's agenda.
No Power to Protect: The African Union Mission in Sudan
Refugees International
No Power to Protect: The African Union Mission in Sudan (AMIS) argues that the African Union Mission in Sudan will be unable to carry out its job in Darfur unless the US and the UN take active measures to provide support. AMIS does not have the resources or ability to carry out its job of monitoring a ceasefire that is widely and regularly violated by all sides.
Laws Without Justice: An Assessment of Sudanese Laws Affecting Survivors of Rape
Refugees International
This report outlines a system of Sudanese laws that exposes rape victims to further abuse, shields perpetrators from prosecution, limits the ability for survivors to receive medical services and generally denies any access to justice. The report examines these laws and makes a series of recommendations on how the laws can be revised. The report also encourages international support of Sudanese civil society organizations and opposition members of Parliament who are calling for changes to these laws.
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