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Why Janjawid commander switched to the other side
 Muhammad Ali Adam comes from one of the most feared tribes in south Darfur, the Arab Falata. As a Janjawid fighter he helped his militia to rape, loot and murder its way through village after village. Yet he is among a growing number of Arab gunmen switching sides as they grow disillusioned with the Khartoum Government.If I remember the actions which we did, I feel very sorry and sometimes I cry, he said, sipping sweet, black tea with half a dozen of his new comrades from the Sudan Liberation Army (SLA), deep inside Jebel Mara, the mountainous stronghold of the anti-Khartoum rebels. Once they would have tried to kill each other. Commander Adam, with his dark tan and Khartoum-issued, Chinese-made Kalashnikov, cuts an unlikely figure as a rebel commander. Yet he now ventures regularly into the hillside town of Gorolang Baje home to the Fur people that gave Darfur its name to take orders from his new superiors, who used to be his foes. Posted by: Steve White 2007-05-11 |
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