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The War in Darfur, also nicknamed the Land Cruiser War, [note 1] was a major armed conflict in the Darfur region of Sudan that began in February 2003 when the Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM) and the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) rebel groups began fighting against the government of Sudan, which they accused of oppressing Darfur's non-Arab population.
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The Darfur conflict had been referred by the UN Security Council in 2005 to the International Criminal Court and the Chief Prosecutor had opened an investigation into crimes related to the conflict. [9] In July 2008, the Chief Prosecutor said he knew who were the perpetrators of the Haskanita raids, and he was committed to prosecuting them. [10]
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Darfur Report Archived 2007-03-24 at the Wayback Machine; Analyzing Darfur's Conflict of Definitions: Interview with Prof. Mahmood Mamdani. Retrieved 2009-03-19. "Khartoum bashing": an article in the TLS by Justin Willis, 7 November 2003; Rule of Law in Armed Conflict – Sudan; Insight on Conflict, SIRC Archived 2011-10-20 at the Wayback Machine
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It was the first time that the War in Darfur, previously confined to western Sudan, reached the country's capital. Overall, the war had claimed the lives of up to 300,000 people, with 2.5 million more made homeless since 2003 (the United States has labeled the conflict in Darfur as genocide, a charge the Sudanese government has rejected). [7]