Darfur’s Still Burning -- John Prendergast and Omer Ismail, Daily Beast
Despite the narrative from diplomats and journalists that Sudan’s civil war is mostly over, Janjaweed gunmen are still terrorizing the region. This time, no one’s paying attention.
The Janjaweed militias are back. The Sudanese government’s notorious paramilitary force and favorite instrument of counterinsurgency—which earned infamy at the height of Darfur’s genocide in the mid-2000s—has unleashed several scorched-earth campaigns in 2013 that have ethnically cleansed entire communities off their land, displacing hundreds of thousands of Darfurians. Fueled by complex economic agendas, Khartoum’s alliance with and support for these militias has led to a comeback of infamous Janjaweed leader Ali Kosheib, already indicted for war crimes by the International Criminal Court. Kosheib’s forces are torching villages and targeting civilians again on the basis of their identity.
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My Comment: The world's media is focused on other conflicts .... Syria, Congo, Mali, Afghanistan, Iraq, etc.. Darfur is simply no longer interesting to much of the world press. This is unfortunate .... because the West is now exploring options on negotiating with the men who are responsible for these atrocities.