The crisis in Darfur region , western Sudan

The slaughter continues in western Sudan as janjaweed militias with air support and arms from the Sudanese army commit genocide on black Africans .

according to satellite photo analysis reported in today's news , some 56,000 houses have been destroyed in over 400 villages of Dafur region western sudan . Over 400,000 forced to flee the area as the genocide intensifies .

the Sudanese government claims that the killing is being done by bandits out of government control that it is attempting to rein in , but the story that the refugees tell is one of being assaulted first by helicopter gunships and then attacked on the ground by the janjaweed in vehicles or on horseback as followup . The men and boys are killed . the women and girls raped . The looted villages are then put to the torch in a systematic program of ethnic cleansing .

in coverage by journalist edith lederer she reports :

"Andrew Natsios, administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development, blamed the devastation on Arab militias known as the Janjaweed which have killed and routed local Africans and are linked to the Sudanese government.

U.S. experts estimate that about 400,000 people once lived in the 56,000 mud brick houses with conical-shaped roofs known as tukels that were destroyed in Darfur, he said. Thousands more lived in 32 villages across the border in Chad that have been destroyed or damaged.
"There's no doubt that this is going on on a massive scale, and the Janjaweed are responsible," Natsios by telephone.


Natsios said no one knows how many of the people who lost their homes were killed, but between 10,000 and 30,000 Sudanese are estimated to have died in the fighting which began in February 2003.
He warned that time is running out to help 2 million Sudanese in desperate need of aid in Darfur."

The fighting broke out this past february when Black Sudanese rebelled over what they describe as a longterm pattern of discrimination against blacks , concerning distribution of land and resources by the government and Arab Sudanese .

The Arab government of Sudan's response has been a campaign of slaughter to ethnically cleanse the region rather than address legitimate grievances of the blacks .


Unlike the civil war that has raged for decades in southern Sudan , both sides in the conflict in the western region appear to be muslims ...Guess that it's more evidence that similar to the history of black and europeans relations ,once again racial differences outweigh the bonds of religion for the Arabs ...It somehow must be more practical for our "Arab brothers" to continue to kill , enslave ,or rape us than to treat us like human beings .