From the International Herald Tribune:
An international human rights group has accused pro-government militias in Sudan's Darfur region of using rape and other forms of sexual violence "as a weapon of war" to humiliate black African women and girls as well as the rebels fighting the government in Khartoum.
In a report to be released on Monday, Amnesty International said the sexual attacks in Darfur amounted to war crimes and crimes against humanity.
But the group said it did not have sufficient evidence to show that the Janjaweed, as the government-backed militias are known, have carried out genocide in Darfur, as some critics of the Sudanese government maintain.
Matt's Chat
Amnesty International may not think it is genocide, but it certainly looks to me like it is. At any rate this is ethnic cleansing and you'd think we all would have learned by now that we can not just sit back and let that happen.For the record, our "allies" the French oppose the UN sanctions that the United States would like to impose on Sudan that would apply diplomatic pressure to knock it off. Looks like France would rather see some genocide there. Or are they forcing a military solution so they can tsk-tsk some more. Obstructionists like France do nothing but get in the way of human progress.
