400,000 

People  Killed
The conflict in Darfur has been going on for six years now!  Hundreds of thousands of people have been killed! But who knows about it?

“burning of villages, the bombing of schools and the systematic rape of women and girls,” (New York Times)

If the US or UN does not take action Darfur will most likely end up like the tragedy in Rwanda.  Rwanda’s genocide took 800,000 and Darfur is half way there.

Crisis in Abyei

The Unresolved Crisis in Abyei

On 7 February Sudanese president Omar al Bashir announced that South Sudan had overwhelmingly voted for secession from the North. A committee is now negotiating post-referendum arrangements, including the contentious issues of oil revenue, border demarcation, and the future status of Abyei. 

Armed Groups

In one form or another, armed groups have been a feature of the Sudanese landscape since before the nation's independence in 1956. Since the 1990s, however, armed groups—particularly opposition groups but also pro-government militias—have played a central role in the historical development of Sudan. Today, they remain a nexus of armed violence against the state and local communities.

Arms Holdings

Estimating the numbers of weapons held by Sudanese state forces, armed groups, and civilians is extremely challenging. The proliferation of arms throughout Sudanese society is a primary legacy of almost four decades of civil war as part of which all sides received arms from outside parties and redistribution to allied forces and civilians was a widely used tactic. The capture and recapture of arms through theft and military engagements has fed the diffusion of weapons, as has the small-scale private 'ant trade' across Sudan's largely unmonitored borders.

Save Darfur Committee

The Executive Committee of SAVE DARFUR

• American Jewish World Service
• American Society for Muslim Advancement
• Amnesty International USA
• Citizens for Global Solutions
• Darfur Peace and Development
• International Crisis Group
• Jewish Council for Public Affairs
• National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
• National Association of Evangelicals
• National Coalition of Churches of Christ in the USA
• Union for Reform Judaism
• United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Belligerents and Leaders/Commanders

Belligerents

• Chad
• Janjaweed
• Sudanese Armed Forces
• Sudanese Police Foreign Mercenaries
• African Union United Nations

Commanders and Leaders

• Ibrahim Khalil
• Ahmed Diraige
• Minni Minnawi
• Omar al-Bashir
• Musa Hilal
• Hamid Dawai
• Ali Kushayb
• Ahmed Haroun
• Rodolophe Adada
• MArtin Luther Agwai

Videos on Darfur
The Genocide in Darfur
Living in Darfur (Music Video)

Mortality Figures

• Sudanese authorities claim a death toll of roughly 19,500 civilians.
• While certain non-governmental organizations, such as the Coalition for International Justice, claim that over 400,000 people have been killed.
• In September 2004, the World Health Organization estimated there had been 50,000 deaths in Darfur since the beginning of the conflict, an 18-month period, mostly due to starvation.
• In March 2005, the UN's Emergency Relief Coordinator Jan Egeland estimated that 10,000 were dying each month excluding deaths due to ethnic violence.
• the excess number of deaths is between 178,258 and 461,520 (the mean being 298,271), with 80% of these due to diseases.
• Reports of violent deaths compiled by the UN indicate between 6,000 and 7,000 fatalities from 2004 to 2007.
• The UN disclosed on 22 April 2008 that it might have underestimated the Darfur death toll by nearly 50%.
• Most International peacekeepers have been killed in Darfur.

Links about Darfur

Darfur scores
Darfur, thenation.com
Darfur, United human rights