ALFRED DE MONTESQUIOU / Associated Press
Sudanese Darfur refugees rest after arriving on the outskirts of the Gaga refugee camp in Chad. At least 230,000 ethnic Africans have fled Darfur to take refuge in camps in neighboring Chad. This is an excerpt from the concluding section of a new report by the United Nations High-Level Mission on Darfur. This report on human rights abuses in that region of Sudan was released Monday.
The High-Level Mission concludes that the situation of human rights in Darfur remains grave, and the corresponding needs profound.
The situation is characterized by gross and systematic violations of human rights and grave breaches of international humanitarian law. War crimes and crimes against humanity continue across the region.
The principal pattern is one of a violent counterinsurgency campaign waged by the Government of the Sudan in concert with Janjaweed /militia, and targeting mostly civilians. Rebel forces are also guilty of serious abuses of human rights and violations of humanitarian law. Read more >>>
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