VIOLENCE IN DARFUR

BBC correspondent Hilary Andersson has gathered eyewitness accounts of the violence in Darfur since 2004.

THE STORY NOT BEING TOLD.....

The War in Darfur (called the Darfur Genocide by the United States government[1]) is a military conflict in the Darfur region of western Sudan. Unlike the Second Sudanese Civil War, the current lines of conflict are seen to be ethnic and tribal, rather than religious.[2] One side of the armed conflict is composed mainly of the Sudanese military and the Janjaweed, a militia group recruited mostly from the Arab Abbala tribes of the northern Rizeigat, camel-herding nomads. The other side comprises a variety of rebel groups, notably the Sudan Liberation Movement and the Justice and Equality Movement, recruited primarily from the land-tilling non-Arab Fur, Zaghawa, and Massaleit ethnic groups. The Sudanese government, while publicly denying that it supports the Janjaweed, has provided money and assistance to the militia and has participated in joint attacks targeting the tribes from which the rebels draw support.[3][4] The conflict began in February of 2003.From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia