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On January 16, 2021, a massacre against Masalit civilians in Krinding IDP camp in Geneina, Sudan by Arab Janjaweed militants killed 163 people, mostly men, and injured 217 others. The massacre was the deadliest attack against Masalit in Geneina since attacks in 2019 against the Krinding camp that killed 72.
On 8 November 2023, the Rapid Support Forces and Janjaweed [6] massacred between 800 [7] [8] and 2,000 [9] [4] in Ardamata, Geneina, West Darfur, Sudan, although estimates vary. [10] [11] The attack came after the Sudanese Armed Forces's 15th Infantry Division camp retreated to Chad. [12] About 20,000 fled to Chad following the violence. [4]
The first clashes began at Shorrong mountain right after sunrise, when Janjaweed launched an offensive from the west. Later offensives came from the north and south. [3] The Janjaweed came in waves, according to a veteran of the attacks, and many of the self-defense groups were spread out across and around the town in groups of 7 to 15. [3]
Janjaweed roots The RSF is a successor to the Janjaweed , an Arab militia backed by the Sudanese government that the U.N. accused of perpetrating ethnic cleansing in Darfur between 2003 and 2005.
Sudan plunged into chaos in mid-April 2023, when long-simmering tensions between its military, led by Gen. Abdel Fat Sudan's horrific war is being fueled by weapons from foreign supporters of ...
Sudan's warring parties have committed extensive war crimes in the ongoing conflict, including deliberate killings of civilians and sexual assault, a leading rights group said Thursday. Amnesty ...
A civil war between two major rival factions of the military government of Sudan, the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) under Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and its allies (collectively the Janjaweed coalition) under the Janjaweed leader Hemedti, began during Ramadan on 15 April 2023. [2]
The Janjaweed (Arabic: جَنْجَويد, romanized: Janjawīd, lit. '"Devils on horseback"'; also transliterated Janjaweed [5]) are an Arab nomad militia group operating in the Sahel region [6] that operates in Sudan, particularly in Darfur and eastern Chad. [7] They have also been speculated to be active in Yemen.