Janjaweed militias use technicals on their raids against civilian villages in Darfur, Sudan,Jerome Taylor, "Janjaweed ditches horseback to launch attacks from 4x4s" , The Independent, 8 December 2006. Accessed 14 August 2008. as do the Sudan Liberation Army (SLA) and Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) rebel troops in defense of their areas of operations. Light vehicles such as technicals are often thought to be more mobile than armored vehicles, but on one occasion an African peace-keeper driving a Grizzly AVGP whose guns had jammed, succeeded in catching up with, ramming and rolling over a fleeing Sudanese technical.
