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DARFUR, Sudan, March 4 (UPI) -- A former Sudanese soldier says he would have been killed if he had not followed orders to kill, rape and pillage in Darfur.
In an interview with CNN, the soldier said he was conscripted in the summer of 2002, taken from a marketplace and trained to kill his own people.
"They are black. I am black," he said. "This shouldn't be happening. ...
"The order is that the soldiers at the front, and there are some people who are watching you from behind, if you try to escape or do anything you will get shot. The order is that we go to the village, burn it and kill the people. …
"I had no choice but I will say that I didn't kill anybody but the raping of the small children, it was bad."
Among the rape victims were girls as young as 12, said the former soldier, who attempted to desert but was caught and tortured with burning rubber.
The interview was released the same day the International Criminal Court in The Hague in the Netherlands issued an arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir for crimes against humanity and war crimes.
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