ICC Note: For more than a decade, natives of the Darfur region in western Sudan have faces unspeakable atrocities akin to crimes against humanity and genocide at the hands of the Sudanese state. A recent Human Rights Watch report that interviewed 212 subjects from the regional claims witnesses saw government forces beating, raping, and looting in the embattled region as late as 2014. The world has watched in horror and thoroughly documented President Omar al-Bashir’s involvement in this campaign against ethnically black Sudanese in Darfur. Most of the inhabitants in this region are also Christians who are not only targeted because they are black, but as Christians, they fall to the lowest caste of a society Bashir desires to fully Arabize and Islamize.

By Rick Gladstone

9/10/2015 Darfur, Sudan (NYT) – A Sudanese government counterinsurgency force has carried out two campaigns of killings and mass rape in the Darfur region since early 2014,Human Rights Watch said Wednesday in a report that evoked the atrocities committed there by the feared janjaweed militia a decade ago.

The 88-page report, based on interviews with 212 victims and witnesses, describes in detail the accusations against the Sudanese unit, known as the Rapid Support Forces, and says they amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity.

Darfur, the rebellious region in western Sudan, became known in the mid-2000s for systematic killings, rape, forced relocations and other crimes committed against mainly non-Arab tribes by government forces and their nomadic militia allies, known as the janjaweed.

As many as 300,000 people have been killed in Darfur since 2003, according to United Nations estimates, and 2.5 million people have been uprooted in what is widely considered a modern-day genocide.

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