Sheik Musa Hilal, left, is said to be a key leader of the feared Arab militias that have brought misery to Darfur. Michael Kamber for The New York TimesFrom The New Republic:
Musa Hilal has the blood of hundreds of thousands on his hands, but the Janjaweed leader claims he's just a peacemaker.
In late February 2004, Janjaweed militias and Sudanese government forces waged a three-day, coordinated assault on Tawila, a village in northern Darfur. Government aircrafts destroyed buildings, while the Janjaweed broke into a girls’ boarding school, forced the students to strip naked at gunpoint, and then gang-raped and abducted many of them. Video footage shows fly-covered corpses strewn among the village's smoldering ruins. And giving orders and distributing weapons during the siege, eyewitnesses say, was Sheikh Musa Hilal.
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My Comment: As horrible as this man is, what is even more disgusting is that our own government is willing to negotiate with the regime that has (and still is) actively supporting this monster.
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