The strategy is simple. Rape as many women as possible. As brutally as possible. As publicly as possible. That is how the state backed the Janjawid militia in Darfur, in western Sudan are terrorising the civilian population.
The UN calls it ‘the world’s worst humanitarian crisis’. But what is causing the violence in Darfur and why hasn’t the world acted to stop it?
Darfur fits the pattern of Cambodia, Liberia, Peru, Bosnia, Sierra Leone, Rwanda, Somalia and Uganda, with violence against women being systematically used by warring parties.
The solution is equally simple. Send an effective peacekeeping force to the region, with a mandate to protect the people.

The magazine New Internationalist of June 2007 reads: Darfur, Don’t look away. Well that is exactly what we have done so far.

Darfur civilians have suffering a State sponsored ethnic cleansing. The articles provided by New Internationalist come to shade some light on the issue and reveal why some outside countries profit from Sudan’s instability and civil war; like China very interested in Sudan’s oil reserves.

Check out and read the pieces on Darfur here (also look for the “other articles of this issue”:
http://www.newint.org/features/2007/06/01/keynote/