The Darfur Genocide

Everyday hundreds of men, women, and children are being killed in the Darfur region of Western Sudan.

The Darfur conflict is an ongoing conflict in the Darfur region of western Sudan mainly between the Janjaweed, a militia group recruited from local arab tribes, and the non-Arab peoples of the region. The Sudanese government, while publicly denying that it supports the Janjaweed, is providing arms and assistance and has participated in joint attacks with the group. The conflict began in February 2003.

In September 2004, the (WHO) estimated there have been 50,000 deaths in Darfur since the beginning of the conflict, mostly as a result of malnourishment. That estimate rose in November to 71,000 deaths due to starvation and disease between March and October 2004 alone. Both of these figures were misleading, because they only considered short periods and limited locations. A recent British Parliamentary Report estimates that over 300,000 people have already died, and others have estimated even more. In March 2005, the United Nations estimated that 180,000 had died in the past eighteen months of the conflict. More than 1.8 million people have been displaced from their homes. Two hundred thousand have fled to neighboring Chad.The conflict has been described by mass media as "ethnic cleansing" and "genocide".

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