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March 9, 2008

The Janjaweed Returns to the Plains of Darfur


by Lydia Polgreen, Scotland on Sunday, Scotland, UK - The janjaweed are back. They came to the dusty town of Suleia in the Darfur region of Sudan riding horses and camels on market day. Almost everybody was in the bustling square. At the first clatter of automatic gunfire, everyone ran. The militiamen destroyed the town – burning huts, pillaging shops, carrying off any loot they could find.

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