After Saying “Never Again,” Will the World Respond to Genocide in Darfur?

DARFUR, SUDAN – 2006:Sudanese rebels with the NRF look for ammunition and weapons and other belongings left behind from defeated GOS soldiers as the rebels walk through a temporary military camp for the GOS near the Darfur Chad border, in Darfur, October 19, 2006. Dozens of GOS bodies riddled the barren landscape, revealing evidence of the rebel’s offensive of late in Darfur. (Photo by Lynsey Addario/Getty Images Reportage)

By Hollie McKay

Hollie McKay is a writer, war crimes investigator, and the author of “Only Cry for the Living: Memos from Inside the ISIS Battlefield.” (Jocko Publishing/Di Angelo Publications 2021). She was an investigative and international affairs/war correspondent for Fox News Digital for over fourteen years, where she focused on war, terrorism, and crimes against humanity.

SUBSCRIBER+ EXCLUSIVE REPORTINGAfraid to show his face and wedged into an overstuffed refugee camp on Sudan’s border with Chad, a middle-aged man named Ridwan recalled the night last November when militant forces – known interchangeably as the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) or the Janjaweed – stormed his village, destroying his home, his car and all his other possessions. Ridwan watched as entire neighborhoods burned, and terrified civilians were slain in the streets before he paid a bribe to flee his homeland of Darfur, in western Sudan, to neighboring Chad.

“This is a purely racial war,” Ridwan told The Cipher Brief. “This is purely based on ethnic identity, on taking our land.”

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