News feature: Ethnic cleansing in Sudan
By Cathy Nugent Since February 2003 a brutal ethnic cleansing has taken place against some of the peoples of Darfur in western Sudan. It has been perpetrated by the military-Islamist government and the ferocious militia which it supports. The non-Arab Fur, Masaalit and Zaghawa communities of Darfur have been killed, raped and made homeless. Over a million people have now fled their homes, with 110,000 in Chad. According to UN estimates, 13,000 people have been killed. Military and militia action in Darfur escalated at the beginning of this year when the government vowed to annihilate the armed...