Duke out of Darfur
(02/21/07 5:00am)
The conflict in the Darfur region of Sudan has killed more than 400,000 people and millions more civilians have been internally displaced or fled into neighboring countries. Since 2003, Sudanese government armed forces and the state-sponsored "Janjaweed" militia have been fighting two rebel groups in Darfur. As part of their campaign to decrease regional support for these rebel groups, the Sudanese government has ordered attacks against specific ethnic groups of civilians who have nothing to do with the rebels. The U.S. government has condemned this violence against innocent civilians as genocide.