why did the janjaweed attack darfur
Answer by KELiiKA. Confidence votes 17. The Islamic controlled government, located in East Sudan, started the Genocide as an ethnic cleansing of the Darfur region in West Sudan. They hire militia groups known as the Janjaweed to attack villages, rape, kill and loot.I have hire in quotations because the government is not paying them, their reward is what they are able to steal. The Darfurians are now being forced out of their lands and into neighboring Chad.he Islamic controlled government, located in East Sudan, started the Genocide as an ethnic cleansing of the Darfur region in West Sudan.