(New York Times) Nicholas D. Kristof - The most vicious ethnic cleansing you've never heard of is unfolding - a campaign of murder, rape, and pillage by Sudan's Arab rulers that has forced 700,000 black African Sudanese to flee their villages. Western and African countries need to intervene urgently. Sudan's leaders should not be able to get away with mass murder. Arab raiders, the Janjaweed, are killing or driving out blacks in the Darfur region near Chad. "They came at 4 a.m. on horseback, on camels, in vehicles, with two helicopters overhead," recalled Idris Abu Moussa, a 26-year-old Sudanese farmer. "They killed 50 people in my village." "They took the cattle and horses, killed the men, raped the women, and then they burned the village," said Abubakr Ahmed Abdallah, a 60-year-old refugee who escaped to Chad.
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