For over two decades, civil war has raged in Sudan. The Sudan government, comprised mostly of Muslims, has focused their war on the Africans of Darfur, Sudan. The Africans, for years, have had control over some of the most fertile grazing lands and oil reserves in all of Sudan. Unfortunately, " [o]ver the past two decades, though, persistent drought has forced the Arabs to move to more arable lands, straining relations with the Africans" (Calabresi, Dealey, and Faris p.58). When the Arabs began to co-exist on the same land as the Africans, fights broke out over the land and the Arabs became jealous and violent. Massacres and rebellions broke out from both sides. It wasn't until the Sudan government the "tiff" became ugly. With the Sudan government on the sides of the Arabs, a military and government supported group, Janjaweed ("devils on horseback"), began to fight the insurgents and citizens of Darfur. It wasn't long until the fights turned into a form of genocide known as ethnic cleansing. The cleansing stopped focusing just on the insurgents and citizens and began targeting certain ethnicities, mostly the Africans and Christians.

 

 

 

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