Darfur-Oil is dearer than the blood of a brother!!
Iqbal Latif-Paris
UN inaction can lead to another genocide in Darfur!!
Sudan, the latest tragedy that the world has just woken up too, stems from long-standing tensions between nomadic Arab tribes and their African neighbours over water and farmland. There are genuinely long standing famine-based tensions between the largely African settled farmers and nomadic Arab herders, and it is this ethnic divide that has mobilized the armed struggle. The ethnic African farmers (extracted from the Fur, Masalit, and Zaghawa peoples), formed the Sudanese Liberation Army or SLA in Darfur, which launched an attack on positions of the central government, including the city of El Fasher in the early months of 2003. Khartoum’s responded by organizing the Arab tribes among the Baggara people, of Arab ethnicity, in Darfur who were called the Janjaweed, to fight the insurgents.
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