The Darfur conflict is an ongoing conflict in the Darfur region of western Sudan, mainly between the Janjaweed, a government-supported militia recruited from local Arab tribes, and the non-Arab peoples of the region. The conflict has been widely described as "ethnic cleansing", and frequently as "genocide". In September 2004, the World Health Organization (WHO) estimated 50,000 deaths in Darfur since the conflict's beginning, mostly by starvation; in October, its head gave an estimate of 71,000 deaths by starvation and disease alone between March and October 2004. A recent study in Parliamentary Brief (http://www.thepolitician.org) estimates that between 200,000 and 300,000 people have already died.(http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/3748732.stm)
More than 1.8 million people had been displaced from their homes. 200,000 have fled to neighboring Chad. The refugees include non-Arab victims of non-Arabs, Arab victims of non-Arabs, and Arab victims of Arabs; however, the large majority are non-Arab black Africans fleeing Janjaweed attacks. (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/3737566.stm)
The UN, prior to the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake, called the Darfur conflict the world's worst current humanitarian crisis.
But the UN won't call it Genocide- that kind of loaded language would demand action.
Wednesday, March 23, 2005
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