Chad: As Army Pursues Rebels, Militia Massacres Fill the Vacuum

Djawara — When the light breeze lulls in the trees around Djawara, a village in the far east of Chad, the thick stench of rotting corpses becomes unbearable. Locals say 75 of their brothers, fathers and sons are buried in 50 centimetre deep graves in this glade on the village's outskirts, killed they say by men on horses, and by their own neighbours.

The bodies were hastily buried in mid-May, days after a rag-tag group of men armed with guns, spears, and machetes overran the village in a dawn attack.

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