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[|Sudan], a country in the north eastern part of Africa, is broken into two parts based on race and religion. The people in the northern part are mostly white Muslims and Arabs. The people in the southern part of Sudan are mostly black Christians and animists. [|It] is projected that the genocide was the effect of drought, overpopulation and the arrival of the Baggara Nomads into the southern area of Sudan.

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The genocide began in 2003 when the rebel groups Sudan Liberation Movement and the Justice and Equality Mogvement said that the government was not giving equal rights to the citizens who were not Arabs. The government, not wishing to put up with these rebels groups, formed a militia of Arabs called the Janjaweed. The Janjaweed were then told to go exterminate the non-Arabs. The [|Janjaweed] figured, since most of the non-Arabs were black, that this was dehumanizing enough to revoke them of all guilt they might feel.

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[|Although] there were no laws keeping them apart, the two peoples did that so well themselves that the Arabs had no trouble finding the African-Americans. Supplied with the guns the government gave them, the Arabs moved into southern Sudan and began the genocide.

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[|As] with all genocides there was mass murder, but that's not all that has occured; the Janjaweed would loot the African-Americans' houses, burn villages, destroy livestock, and commit mass rape, often in front of the woman's or girl's family. Sometimes people would even be thrown into burning houses. This brutality is the cause of 400,000 deaths and counting.

[|Although] the Sudanese government openly denies that it gives support and supplies to the Janjaweed, the International Criminal Court has filed ten criminal charges against the Sudan President.

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