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Darfur defector confesses
A HIGH-RANKING commander who armed and led Janjaweed militiamen in attacks on hundreds of villages in Darfur has come forward to say he did so at the behest of the Sudanese Government.
Prosecutors at the International Criminal Court are today expected to take a significant step towards putting Sudan’s leaders on trial by presenting evidence against the President, Omar Hassan al-Bashir.
As the lawyers pursue a case against the country’s rulers in Khartoum, some of the most damning evidence yet that the killing was directed by the Government has been provided by Arbab Idries, who was a commander between 2003 and 2007.
An estimated 300,000 black Africans have died in ethnic massacres in Darfur at the hands of Arabic-speaking militias, in what the US has described as genocide. A further 2.5 million refugees have been driven from their homes.
In an interview to be aired on British television tonight, Mr Idries described how he was instructed by a senior government figure to recruit Islamic Arabic speakers from the north of Sudan, then personally led 5000 horsemen in a murderous campaign against black southerners who did not share their religion.
He admitted troops under his command committed rapes and killed old people and children. “We were attacking villages where there were only the blacks,” Mr Idries said. “These people were civilians. They had no weapons.”
Terrorists targeting civilians. The status quo when it comes to jihad.
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