DARFUR UPDATE:

Evidence that Sudan’s government is backing Arab militias in Darfur has come from a leader of the forces, US-based Human Rights Watch has said. Musa Hilal, named by the US as a Janjaweed leader, told the group that militia attacks on ethnic Africans were directed by Sudanese army commanders.

“These people get their orders… from Khartoum,” he said in an interview transcript released by the group.

The Sudanese government has strongly denied supporting the militias.

Not surprising, of course, but nice to have it on the record. Now could we bomb them, or something?