By Andrew L. Jaffee

Louise Arbour, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, today “gave a sharp reminder of the scale of Darfur’s problems,” regarding Arab/Muslim atrocities being committed against Sudan’s Black Africans:

On her last visit to Sudan the UN’s top human rights official spoke to women who had been raped by Arab Janjaweed militia.

This time many of those same women had given birth to young babies.

Arbour said that the crisis in Sudan’s western Darfur province had “deteriorated since she last visited in 2004:”

“I was there in the fall of 2004, which was bad enough,” she said.

“We thought then it was at the height of the displaced population’s misery. And frankly now, not only there’s no improvement in their predicament.”

She added that sexual violence, rape of women who collect firewood was showing “virtually the same level of victimisation”.

For a full background of Arab/Muslim war crimes in Sudan, see netwmd’s Sudan Monitor.