Janjaweed
/dʒandʒəˈwiːd/
"Janjaweed" in a Sentence (2 examples)
More than 800,000 civilians are sheltering in El Fasher, and a full-scale battle could unleash atrocities similar to those of the genocide carried out by Arab Janjaweed fighters against African Zaghawa, Masalit, Fur and other non-Arab ethnic groups in Darfur in the early 2000s.
Hilal has admitted recruiting local Janjaweed militias for the government, but denies personal involvement in the scorched-earth campaign that has driven more than two million people from their homes and seen more than 200,000 people die.