Darfur: Assault on Survival

Author:
John Heffernan
Publisher:
Physicians for Human Rights
Publication Date:
11 January 2006
Tags:
Sudan, Human Rights, Refugees and Displacement, Arms and Military Affairs, Conflict, Peace and Security

Just days before Sudanese leaders responsible for orchestrating ongoing acts of violence in Darfur host the African Union summit in Khartoum, a new report from Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) reveals, in unprecedented detail, the underreported catastrophic elimination of traditional livelihoods in Darfur, Sudan. The report, Assault on Survival: A Call for Security, Justice and Restitution, spotlights the obliteration of the means of survival and the way of life in three villages by the Government of Sudan (GOS) and its proxy militia, the Janjaweed. During three trips to the region between May 2004 and July 2005, investigators randomly surveyed dozens of survivors from the villages of Furawiya, Bendisi and Terbeba and documented--with hundreds of photographic images as well as hand-drawn maps--compelling evidence of attacks on lives and livelihoods that PHR has assessed as genocidal.

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