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Darfur Violence: ‘No Escape’

The journey proved to us that confidence was totally absent between the non-Arab tribes and the Janjaweed, a militia group comprising Sudanese Arab tribes, the core of whom are from a Abbala (camel herder) background with significant recruitment from the Baggara (cattle herder) people. Similarly, the region’s Arabs do not trust all other non-Arab tribes, termed as “Tora Bora” which refers to the two Darfuri rebel groups, the Justice and Equality Movement and the Sudan Liberation Movement.

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