The Darfur conflict began in 2003 after a rebel group began attacking government targets, saying the region was being neglected by Khartoum.I wonder about the above title, if it is the insurgents responsible for creating the myth of Arabs v Africans in Darfur.
The rebels say the government is oppressing black Africans in favour of Arabs.
Arab militias responded to try to put down the uprising. The government denies accusations from the rebels it is backing the militias.
As I recall, some of Eric Reeves' old essays on Southern Sudan's recent war were peppered with the word 'genocide'. My point is, trying to understand whether what the media is telling us - that the aim of Arabs in Sudan is to wipe out Africans in Darfur - and why they aren't all just classed as Sudanese.
I don't know if every Sudanese person is officially registered at birth and death. Sudan is huge, the size of Europe. It's bound to have a national identity problem with so many different tribes, languages, customs, dialects. Around 75% of Sudanese are illiterate. I'm not surprised it continues to be ruled by a stick. When I watch film re-enactments of battles in ancient China and the bloodshed there thousands of years ago, I'm not surprised Sudan understands China. We're told world population growth is too great, that 6 billion people on this planet is two thirds too many. Maybe I'm reaching the conclusion that wars and genocide are a natural course of life and evolution.
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