Article by BBC News
In the last few weeks, media users in Sudan have been horrified by videos of young men's afros being shaved off by the former Janjaweed forces in areas of Khartoum, the capital. The Janjaweed militia, accused of carrying out atrocities in Darfur in the early 2000s, now have a new role. They were accused of riding horses into villages seen as sympathetic to rebels, burning them to the ground, killing the men and raping the women. It is not entirely clear why they have now started shaving off afros, but the hairstyles tend to be associated in conservative religious and social circles with people who are "deviant".
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