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Cracks are beginning to appear in the ranks of Darfur's feared Janjaweed militia - at least that's according to leaders of the rebel forces fighting against the government-backed Arab supremacists that have rained terror on the region's ethnic African villages. Leaders of Darfur's rebel groups based in eastern Chad tell TIME that they believe several Janjaweed leaders are now close to joining the rebels. Their defection would be spurred by fear that the Sudan government may betray Janjaweed commanders to the International Criminal Court in The Hague, where they would face war crimes charges...
...Janjaweed are part of Darfur," declares Tajeldeen Bashir Niam, general secretary of the Justice and Equality Movement (J.E.M.) - one of Darfur's two main resistance movements. "They have approached us to join us and that's what we're working for: to be united, Arab and African, for the people of Darfur. The Janjaweed are realizing the only solution to Darfur 's problems is to resist the government...
...judges to issue summonses for Ahmed Haroun, a former state interior minister, and militia commander Ali Muhammad Ali Abd-al-Rahman, also known as Ali Kushayb. Rebel leaders say the ICC investigation will potentially drive a wedge between Janjaweed commanders and their backers in Khartoum. At Tine, on the Darfur-Chad border, local commanders from the J.E.M. and Darfur's other rebel group, the Sudanese Liberation Army (S.L.A.), claim that one prominent Janjaweed commander had already changed sides, bringing with him 400 men and 10 trucks mounted with machine guns. The claim could not be verified...
...company. While we agree with student activists that Harvard should drop more of this indirectly-held stock, we do not support the creation of a blanket, preemptive policy that would force Harvard to divest if certain criteria are met.The latest student and faculty petition drive, led by the Harvard Darfur Action Group (HDAG), calls on Harvard to divest from both direct and indirect investments when “reasonable alternatives exist.” HDAG also wants Harvard to adopt a “targeted divestment model” in which it pledges to divest from companies meeting very specific...
That humanitarianism has additionally motivated her to ensure human rights around the world. Fighting to end the genocide in Darfur, she helped win passage of the Darfur Peace and Accountability Act to impose sanctions on culpable individuals and to deny entry of Sudanese oil ships to U.S. ports. A month ago, in response to a young woman’s question about Darfur in Keene, N.H., she passionately talked about her continued efforts to expand NATO’s role in protecting civilians and argued for the creation and enforcement of a no-fly zone over Darfur...