Sudan and Chad

From this CNN report:

Anarchy in Sudan's Darfur is spilling over into Chad, where rival armed groups supported by the governments of Chad and Sudan are committing serious crimes against civilians, a human rights group said Thursday.

Hundreds of Chadian civilians have been killed in recent weeks in cross-border attacks by Sudanese militias known as janjaweed and allied Chadian fighters, and more than 50,000 have been displaced, New York-based Human Rights Watch said in "Violence Beyond Borders: The Human Rights Crisis in Eastern Chad."

The group added Darfur rebels were forcibly recruiting children and others in camps in Chad for Sudanese who had fled Darfur.

The full report from Human Rights Watch can be read here.

The Sudan Tribune adds this:

Growing numbers of Chadian civilians are joining raids on their black African countrymen by mounted Arab Janjaweed militia from Sudan’s neighbouring Darfur region as violence worsens in eastern Chad, survivors say.

A Chadian refugee hides between relatives after her family fled to Geylu in Sudan’s troubled western Darfur region March 18, 2006.(Reuters).There is a long history of cross-border Janjaweed incursions along the Chad-Sudan border, but observers say in the last three months there has been a marked upsurge in the frequency and violence of attacks, and more involvement of Chadian civilians as an insurgency by Chadian rebels has intensified.
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Local people talk about their countrymen joining an "Arab alliance" although both Arab and some black African tribes from Chad have thrown their lot in with the Janjaweed.

They have attacked villages of other black tribes, mirroring the pattern of three years of Janjaweed raids in Sudan’s Darfur.

Apart from stealing cattle and other goods, attacks appear motivated by opposition to Chad President Idriss Deby.