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Bookmark or Share- Terrified Sudanese on the run from Arab militias in Darfur - again - BBCWhen non-Arabs took up arms against the government in 2003, complaining about discrimination, the government retaliated by mobilising and arming mostly Arab militias. Known as the Janjaweed, they...
- ‘Can’t trust the Janjaweed’: Sudan’s capital ravaged by RSF ruleDuring the first Darfur war in 2003, government-backed “Arab” militias – which were more commonly known as the “Janjaweed” and later repackaged as the RSF – displaced “non-Arabs” from their...
- Janjaweed | Sudan’s Ethnic Cleansing Militia | BritannicaJanjaweed, Arab militia active in Sudan, particularly in the Darfur region. The militia’s name is thought by many to be derived from the Arabic jinnī (spirit) and jawad (horse), although its etymological origins are not completely clear.
- Darfur | Holocaust EncyclopediaFor several years in the early 2000s, soldiers of the military-led government in Sudan and their proxy militia, known as Janjaweed, fought rebel groups in Darfur. Between 2003 and 2005, an estimated 200,000 civilians died from violence, disease, and starvation as a result of the conflict.
- Janjaweed - WikipediaThe Janjaweed (Arabic: جَنْجَويد, romanized: Janjawīd; also transliterated Janjaweed [5]) are an Arab nomad militia group operating in the Sahel region [6] that operates in Sudan, particularly in Darfur and eastern Chad. [7]
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