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The Militia at the Center of the Darfur Genocide Kills Hundreds in Sudan

Group that grew from infamous Janjaweed militia blamed for killing of about 800 people in refugee camp. ‘I couldn’t count the number of dead bodies.’

A camp in Chad houses people who fled fighting in Sudan’s Darfur region. A militia this month attacked a similar camp within Darfur. ZOHRA BENSEMRA/REUTERS

By Nicholas Bariyo

and Gabriele Steinhauser

Nov. 11, 2023 8:20 am ET

The gunmen arrived on motorcycles and in the backs of Toyota pickups, brandishing Kalashnikovs and dressed in the telltale sand-colored uniforms of Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces militia. Over three days they killed hundreds of men and teenage boys in a Darfur refugee camp, according to witnesses, local human-rights groups and international aid agencies.

The Sudanese-Arab militia worked its way systematically through the tents, shacks and mud houses of the Ardamata camp, shooting male residents. The settlement in western Darfur was home to about 30,000 non-Arab Sudanese people who had fled earlier bouts of fighting in the country’s civil war, which started nearly seven months ago.

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