Throughout the ongoing [[genocide]] in the [[Darfur war]] in [[Sudan]], there has been a systematic campaign of rape,<ref name="spencer24092004">{{cite web|url=http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=11278|title=The Rape Jihad|last=Spencer|first=Robert|authorlink=Robert Spencer (author)|date=24 September 2004|publisher=FrontPageMagazine.com|accessdate=13 December 2014}}</ref> which has been used as a [[war rape|weapon]] of war, in the [[ethnic cleansing]] of black Africans from the region.{{sfn|Ball|2011|p=107}}{{sfn|GOMA|2011}}{{sfn|Hagan|2005|p=531}} The majority of rapes have been carried out by the Sudanese government forces and the [[Janjaweed]] ("evil men on horseback"){{sfn|Straus|2005|p=126}} paramilitary groups.{{sfn|Hirsch|2012}}{{sfn|Hashim|2009|p=226}} The actions of the Janjaweed have been described as [[genocidal rape]], with not just women, but children also being raped, as well as babies being bludgeoned to death and the sexual mutilation of victims being commonplace.{{sfn|Rothe|2009|p=53}}{{sfn|Hagan|2005|pp=525–562}} | Throughout the ongoing [[genocide]] in the [[Darfur war]] in [[Sudan]], there has been a systematic campaign of rape,<ref name="spencer24092004">{{cite web|url=http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=11278|title=The Rape Jihad|last=Spencer|first=Robert|authorlink=Robert Spencer (author)|date=24 September 2004|publisher=FrontPageMagazine.com|accessdate=13 December 2014}}</ref> which has been used as a [[war rape|weapon]] of war, in the [[ethnic cleansing]] of black Africans from the region.{{sfn|Ball|2011|p=107}}{{sfn|GOMA|2011}}{{sfn|Hagan|2005|p=531}} The majority of rapes have been carried out by the Sudanese government forces and the [[Janjaweed]] ("evil men on horseback"){{sfn|Straus|2005|p=126}} paramilitary groups.{{sfn|Hirsch|2012}}{{sfn|Hashim|2009|p=226}} The actions of the Janjaweed have been described as [[genocidal rape]], with not just women, but children also being raped, as well as babies being bludgeoned to death and the sexual mutilation of victims being commonplace.{{sfn|Rothe|2009|p=53}}{{sfn|Hagan|2005|pp=525–562}} |