Darfur

=__ Darfur __=

-The genocide here started in February 2003.

-It all started when the Sudan Liberation Movement/ Army (SLM/A) and Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) groups in Darfur took up arms, accusing the Sudanese Government of oppressing or committing genocide against black Africans in favor of Arabs.

-The Janjaweed which is a militia guerilla group that is mainly from the Arab Abbala tribes of the Northern Rizeigat region in Sudan

-The other group of people that are fighting the Janjaweed are mostly made up of rebel groups and other army's ran by the government. This group is the group that forces people to leave there homes and they use the healthy men/ boys for there army and the rest of the people get killed or they flee there homes when they see them coming.

-More then 100,000 people have died either because of them getting killed, starvation, and disease engendered by the conflict.

-Close to 2,000 people died in Darfur.

-This is a war fought by two sides, South side of Sudan and the North side of Sudan. These are the muslims and the non-muslims. Muslims are in the North side and the non-Muslims are in the Southern part of Sudan. This war has been going on because of opinion on religion some people don't agree with the rules that Muslim's have. Another reason why is because Muslim's in Sudan have slaves which are mostly made up of southern Sudan's people. People from Southern Sudan don't agree with what Muslim's from Sudan are doing.

-Militia groups that get paid by Muslim Government force people out of there homes to show that they are more powerful then them. There government provides the money for guns, explosives, and other supplies that are needed to force these people out of there homes.

-There are also groups that help the Southern part of Sudan. For example the United Nations help a lot of people by providing food and shelter. But most of the time those people are already dead when these groups of help arrive.

-It is really bad what is going on in the Southern part of Sudan specially because when they capture these people in Southern Sudan the women get raped, children get taught to kill so they are captured and trained to kill for then they can go out with the militia and kill other people.