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Tashah · 06-09-07, 07:11 AM

Human Rights Watch report (2004) on the Sudanese government assistence to the Janjaweed militia.

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Summary:
Numerous reports from Human Rights Watch and other sources1 have described the “hand-in-glove” manner in which the Government of Sudan and the nomadic ethnic militias known as the Janjaweed have operated together to combat a rebel insurgency in Darfur. Hundreds of eyewitnesses and victims of attacks have testified to the close coordination between government forces and their militia partners in the conflict. Militia leaders and members have been supplied with arms, communications equipment, salaries and uniforms by government officials and have participated in joint ground attacks on civilians with government troops, often with aerial bombing and reconnaissance support from government aircraft.

Full report with citations:
Darfur Documents Confirm Government Policy of Militia Support (Human Rights Watch, 20-7-2004)

Another HRW report (2005) on this subject:

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Janjaweed Chief Says Sudan Government Backed Attacks
(New York, March 2, 2005) — A top Janjaweed leader says the Sudan government backed and directed militia activities in northern Darfur, according to a videotape released by Human Rights Watch today.

Widely regarded as the top Janjaweed leader in Darfur, Musa Hilal was interviewed over the course of several hours by Human Rights Watch researchers in Khartoum in September 2004. Since then, he has largely stopped giving interviews to the media and other foreign visitors.

Hilal states that the government of Sudan directed all military activities of the militia forces he had recruited. “All of the people in the field are led by top army commanders,” he told Human Rights Watch on videotape. “…These people get their orders from the Western command center, and from Khartoum.”

Full report here:
Darfur: Militia Leader Implicates Khartoum (Human Rights Watch, March 2, 2005)