Situation worsening in Chad after more janjaweed attacks

Sudanese Arab Muslim janjaweed and their allies have raided yet more villages in Chad, reports the Independent. 

They came on camels and horses; some came in cars. Armed with bazookas and rocket launchers, M14 and AK-47 rifles, up to 500 Arab men, most wearing Sudanese army uniform, surrounded Djorlo, a village of 1,000 people in eastern Chad.

 
Many of the attackers were Sudanese, part of the Janjaweed militia who attacked black Africans in neighbouring Darfur. Now they had crossed the border and, along with Chadian Arabs, were bringing their scorched earth policy to Chad.

 
Within moments, thatch-roofed homes were ablaze as artillery normally used to fight armies was turned on defenceless villagers. In the mayhem and murder that followed, men and women, young and old, ran for their lives. Seven babies, caught in a simple mud hut with a roof made of straw, were burnt to death.

 
As the villagers, members of the black African Dadjo tribe, fled, their attackers shouted: "This is our land now. This will become the second republic of Sudan."

Mr Kofi Annan: all the parties to Thursday's 'agreement' that will bring peace to the region share "the same hope, the same spirit": all parties except those, Sudanese Arab Muslims, who want to kill their black and non-Muslim enemies, kill their children and destroy their homes and their livelihoods.