ATROCITIES WATCHLIST

• Document Type: SPECIALCOLLECTION
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 06513503
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• Document Creation Date: March 16, 2022
• Document Release Date: April 1, 2016
• Case Number: F-2016-00334
• Publication Date: June 1, 2004

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The DCI Strategic Warning Committee's
Atrocities Watch list
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The DCI Strategic Warning Committee's Atrocities Watchlista
Sudan. Arab militia along with government forces are being accused of ethnic cleaning and perhaps
genocide: humanitarian disaster looms as the rainy season begins.
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Special Warning Notice
Sudan
Both sides in Darfur almost certainly are still committing atrocities. Government
actions over the past sixteen months reflect characteristics associated with past
genocides. A major humanitarian crisis in which nearly 1.2 million civilians have been
displaced and some 10 to 30 thousand civilians have died is expected to grow worse
during the ongoing rainy season. The security situation also may deteriorate further
despite the cease-fire between Khartoum and the two major rebel factions and the
arrival of 120 international observers.
� Since early 2003 military operations by government forces and militia, including a
systematic scorched-earth campaign, have resulted in damage or destruction of an
estimated 600 ot more villages.
� Hundreds of thousands more could die if fighting flares and massive aid is not
forthcoming. ,Nrith the loss of the last
growing season major humanitarian assistance will be needed for the next 18
months.
Many atrocities can be attributed to the Jenjaweed, a militia numbering between 11,000
to 15,000 fighters from regional Arabs tribes. Khartoum has been using the Jenjaweed
to destroy the rebels' support base within Darfur's ethnic African villages.
the government provided arms to the
Jenjaweed and continues to support their attacks on villages, including air strikes.
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Neither side has the capability to
militarily defeat the other, yet the government seems determine to try to eliminate
the insurgency, and the rebels show no inclination to lay down their arms.
militia members may be joining Sudanese army
units to hide their identity from international observers.
� The rebels continue to engage government forces and last month appear to have
shot down a government helicopter. The government is accusing the rebels of
taking advantage of the ceasefire by seizing territory.
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