have been destroyed in the war, along with most of the country’s main pharmaceutical production plants. The strain on the remaining facilities is intense. Al-Naw hospital currently receives between 500 and 600 patients a day — many patients were being treated as they lay on the floor.
A graph showing who's responsible for the violence makes it clear that it's overwhelmingly down to the Rapid Support Forces [RSF], with 77% of all violent incidents against civilians. Loyd talks about their campaign of ethnic cleansing, but never spells it out. The RSF is primarily composed of the notorious Janjaweed militias which previously fought on behalf of the Sudanese government, killing and raping its way across Darfur. Its actions were deemed crimes against humanity by Human Rights Watch. They are largely Arab, and their targets, the victims of their ethnic cleansing, were and still are black Africans.
As I noted back in May, after a Times report from Jane Flanagan (My dark skin is a death sentence in Darfur), whoever's doing the PR for the Arabs is doing one hell of a job. In Sudan Arab groups slaughter black Africans and have "slave hunts", with women and girls being rounded up…it doesn't make the news apart from the odd largely ignored report on the back pages, and no one cares. In Gaza, though, the Arabs are the biggest victims ever as the Israelis take strong action to counter the Hamas Islamic jihad against Jews, and the world explodes in protest.
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