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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.
The Darfur genocide was the systematic killing of ethnic Darfuri people during the War in Darfur. The genocide, which was carried out against the Fur , Masalit and Zaghawa ethnic groups, led the International Criminal Court (ICC) to indict several people for crimes against humanity , rape , forced transfer and torture .
The Post-Colonial State and Civil War in Sudan: The Origins of Conflict in Darfur (I. B. Tauris, 2013). Daly, M.W., Darfur's Sorrow: A History of Destruction and Genocide, Cambridge 2010. Danielová, Veronika. "Darfur Crisis of 2003: Analysis of the Darfur Conflict from the Times of First Clashes to the Present Day."
Darfur (/ d ɑːr ˈ f ʊər / dar-FOOR; Arabic: دار فور, romanized: Dār Fūr, lit. 'Realm of the Fur') is a region of western Sudan. Dār is an Arabic word meaning "home [of]" – the region was named Dardaju (Arabic: دار داجو, romanized: Dār Dājū) while ruled by the Daju, who migrated from Meroë c. 350 AD, and it was renamed Dartunjur (Arabic: دار تنجر, romanized ...
The 2020 Darfur attacks were three mass shootings that occurred in July 2020 in Darfur, Sudan.Sudan's leadership and the joint United Nations and African Union mission in Darfur have connected the massacres to land conflicts relating to farming rights, typically between non-Arab tribal farmers, such as the Masalit people, and Arab Bedouin tribes, [1] whom the government believes to be the ...
The conflict has brought daily battles to the streets of the capital of Khartoum, a revival of ethnically targeted attacks in West Darfur, and the displacement of more than 4 million people within ...
The sultan of Dar Masalit, the Darfur tribe of Masalit, accused the Sudanese Army of fleeing the clashes after only fighting for three minutes. [9] Many civilians from the neighboring towns fled to Kreinik from the violence, seeing the population go from around 25,000 to 125,000. [1] In an attack on Kreinik the next day, eight people were ...
Laucci says his client was working as a pharmacist at a market in a remote part of the Darfur region of Sudan during the conflict, which began in 2003, leaving some 300,000 people dead and driving ...