MENAWASHEI, Sudan, May 12 — It took three months for Fatouma Moussa to collect enough firewood to justify a trip to sell it in the market town of Shangil Tobayi, half a day's drive by truck from here. It took just a few moments on Thursday for janjaweed militiamen, making a mockery of the new cease-fire, to steal the $40 she had earned on the trip and rape her.
Speaking barely in a whisper, Ms. Moussa, who is 18, gave a spare account of her ordeal.
"We found janjaweed at Amer Jadid," she said, naming a village just a few miles north of her own. "One woman was killed. I was raped."
Officially, the cease-fire in the Darfur region went into effect last Monday.
That was three days after the government and the largest rebel group signed a broad peace agreement, creating hope for an end to the brutal assaults that have left more than 200,000 dead and have driven two million from their homes, a campaign of government-sponsored terror against non-Arab tribes in Darfur that the Bush administration has called genocide.
I was really hoping this peace deal would hold.To stay current on the continuing Genocide in Darfur please drop by the following two blogs
Sudan Watch and The Coalition for Darfur
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