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Darfur genocide, the Glossary

The Darfur genocide is the systematic killing of ethnic Darfuri people which has occurred during the War in Darfur.^[1]

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Abdallah Banda

Abdallah Banda Abakaer Nourain (عبد الله باندا أباكر نورين), commonly referred to as Abdallah Banda (عبد الله باندا), was the Commander-in-Chief of the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) Collective-Leadership, one of the components of the United Resistance Front.

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Abdel Fattah al-Burhan

Abdel Fattah al-Burhan Abdelrahman al-Burhan (ʿAbd al-Fattāḥ al-Burhān ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Burhān; born 1961) is a Sudanese army general who is the de facto ruler of Sudan.

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Abdel Rahim Mohammed Hussein

Abdel Rahim Mohammed Hussein (عبد الرحيممحمد حسين; born 1949) is a Sudanese politician and the former Governor of Khartoum State.

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Accountability

Accountability, in terms of ethics and governance, is equated with answerability, culpability, liability, and the expectation of account-giving.

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African Union

The African Union (AU) is a continental union of 55 member states located on the continent of Africa.

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Ahmed Haroun

Ahmed Mohammed Haroun (also spelled Ahmad Harun, أحمد هارون; born 1964) is one of five Sudanese men wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur.

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Al-Fashir

Al-Fashir or El Fasher (translit) is the capital city of North Darfur, Sudan.

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Ali Kushayb

Ali Muhammad Ali Abd-Al-Rahman (علي محمد علي عبد الرحمن), commonly known as Ali Kushayb (علي كوشيب) (also: Koship, Kosheib, Kouchib, Kosheb, Koshib), is a senior Janjaweed commander who supported the Sudanese government against Darfur rebel groups during the Omar al-Bashir presidency.

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Amina J. Mohammed

Amina Jane Mohammed (born 27 June 1961) is a British Nigerian diplomat and politician who is serving as the fifth Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations.

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Angelina Jolie

Angelina Jolie (born Angelina Jolie Voight; June 4, 1975) is an American actress, filmmaker, and humanitarian.

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Anti-Black sentiment

Anti-Black sentiment, also called anti-Black racism, anti-Blackness, colourphobia or Negrophobia, is characterised by prejudice, collective hatred, and discrimination or extreme aversion towards people who are racialised as Black people, especially those people from sub-Saharan Africa and its diasporas, as well as a loathing of Black culture worldwide.

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Arab nationalism

Arab nationalism (al-qawmīya al-ʿarabīya) is a political ideology asserting that Arabs constitute a single nation.

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Arabization

Arabization or Arabicization (translit) is a sociological process of cultural change in which a non-Arab society becomes Arab, meaning it either directly adopts or becomes strongly influenced by the Arabic language, culture, literature, art, music, and ethnic identity as well as other socio-cultural factors.

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Brad Pitt

William Bradley Pitt (born December 18, 1963) is an American actor and film producer.

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Chad

Chad, officially the Republic of Chad, is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of North and Central Africa.

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Colin Powell

Colin Luther Powell (April 5, 1937 – October 18, 2021) was an American politician, statesman, diplomat, and United States Army officer who was the 65th United States secretary of state from 2001 to 2005.

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Cornell University Press

The Cornell University Press is the university press of Cornell University; currently housed in Sage House, the former residence of Henry William Sage.

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Crimes against humanity

Crimes against humanity are certain serious crimes committed as part of a large-scale attack against civilians.

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Darfur

Darfur (Fur) is a region of western Sudan.

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Darfur (film)

Darfur (previously called Janjaweed) is a 2009 American film directed by Uwe Boll concerning the War in Darfur, starring David O'Hara, Kristanna Loken, Billy Zane and Edward Furlong.

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Darfur Now

Darfur Now is a 2007 American documentary film examining the genocide in Darfur.

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Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations

The deputy secretary-general of the United Nations is the deputy to the secretary-general of the United Nations.

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Don Cheadle

Donald Frank Cheadle Jr. (born November 29, 1964) is an American actor.

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Ed Daein

El Daein (also spelt Ad Du'ayn, Ad Da'en or Ed Da'ein; الضعين) is a city located in southwestern Sudan.

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Effacer le tableau

Effacer le tableau (literally "erase the board" or "clean the slate") was the operational name given to the genocide of the Bambuti pygmies by rebel forces in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Darfur genocide and Effacer le tableau are genocide of indigenous peoples in Africa.

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El Geteina

El Geteina (also Al Qutaynah, القطنية) is a small town located in the state of the White Nile in Sudan.

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Ethnic cleansing

Ethnic cleansing is the systematic forced removal of ethnic, racial, or religious groups from a given area, with the intent of making the society ethnically homogeneous.

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Fur people

The Fur (Fur: fòòrà, Arabic: فور Fūr) are an ethnic group predominantly inhabiting Darfur, the western part of Sudan, where they are the largest ethnic group.

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Genocidal intent

Genocidal intent is the mens rea (mental element) for the crime of genocide.

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Genocidal rape

Genocidal rape, a form of wartime sexual violence, is the action of a group which has carried out acts of mass rape and gang rapes, against its enemy during wartime as part of a genocidal campaign.

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Genocide

Genocide is the intentional destruction of a people, either in whole or in part.

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George Clooney

George Timothy Clooney (born May 6, 1961) is an American actor and filmmaker.

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George W. Bush

George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is an American politician and businessman who served as the 43rd president of the United States from 2001 to 2009.

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Google Earth

Google Earth is a computer program that renders a 3D representation of Earth based primarily on satellite imagery.

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Government of Sudan

The Government of Sudan is the federal provisional government created by the Constitution of Sudan having executive, parliamentary, and the judicial branches.

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Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Hemedti

Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo (translit, born 1974 or 1975), generally referred to mononymously as Hemedti (translit), Hemetti, Hemeti, or Hemitte ("little Mohamed"), is a Janjaweed leader from the Rizeigat tribe in Darfur, who was the Deputy head of the Transitional Military Council (TMC) following the 2019 Sudanese coup d'état.

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Hotel Rwanda

Hotel Rwanda is a 2004 docudrama film co-written and directed by Terry George.

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Human rights

Human rights are moral principles or normsJames Nickel, with assistance from Thomas Pogge, M.B.E. Smith, and Leif Wenar, 13 December 2013, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy,.

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Human Rights Watch

Human Rights Watch (HRW) is an international non-governmental organization headquartered in New York City that conducts research and advocacy on human rights.

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International Criminal Court

The International Criminal Court (ICC or ICCt) is an intergovernmental organization and international tribunal seated in The Hague, Netherlands.

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International humanitarian law

International humanitarian law (IHL), also referred to as the laws of armed conflict, is the law that regulates the conduct of war (jus in bello).

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Janjaweed

The Janjaweed (Janjawīd; also transliterated Janjawid) are an Arab nomad militia group from the Sahel region that operates in Sudan, particularly in Darfur, and eastern Chad.

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John Prendergast (activist)

John Prendergast is an American human rights and anti-corruption activist as well as an author.

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Justice and Equality Movement

The Justice and Equality Movement (JEM; حركة العدل والمساواة) is an opposition group in Sudan founded by Khalil Ibrahim.

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Kofi Annan

Kofi Atta Annan (8 April 193818 August 2018) was a Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh secretary-general of the United Nations from 1997 to 2006.

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List of people indicted in the International Criminal Court

The list of people who have been indicted in the International Criminal Court includes all individuals who have been indicted on any counts of genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, aggression, or contempt of court in the International Criminal Court (ICC) pursuant to the Rome Statute.

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Luis Moreno Ocampo

Luis Moreno OcampoMoreno Ocampo's surnames are often hyphenated in English-language media to mark Moreno as a surname, not a given name.

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Masalit people

The Masalit (Masalit: masala/masara; ماساليت) are an ethnic group inhabiting western Sudan and eastern Chad.

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Mass murder

Mass murder is the violent crime of killing a number of people, typically simultaneously or over a relatively short period of time and in close geographic proximity.

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Mia Farrow

Maria de Lourdes Villiers "Mia" Farrow (born February 9, 1945) is an American actress and activist.

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Muraheleen

The Muraheleen (can be spelled as Murahilin or Murahleen), also known as al-Maraheel, were tribal militias primarily composed of Rizeigat and Messiria tribes from western Sudan.

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Nicholas Kristof

Nicholas Donabet Kristof (born April 27, 1959) is an American journalist and political commentator.

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North Darfur

North Darfur State (ولاية شمال دارفور Wilāyat Šamāl Dārfūr; Shamal Darfor) is one of the wilayat or states of Sudan.

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Nyala, South Darfur

Nyala (Daju: "the place of chatting") is the capital of the state of South Darfur in the south-west of Sudan.

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Omar al-Bashir

Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir (born 1 January 1944) is a Sudanese former military officer and politician who served as Sudan's head of state under various titles from 1989 until 2019, when he was deposed in a coup d'état.

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Outline of genocide studies

Below is an outline of articles on the academic field of genocide studies and subjects closely and directly related to the field of genocide studies; this is not an outline of acts or events related to genocide or topics loosely or sometimes related to the field of genocide studies.

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Peter Takirambudde

Peter Takirambudde is the Ugandan born Executive Director of Human Rights Watch for Sub-Saharan Africa.

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Population transfer

Population transfer or resettlement is a type of mass migration that is often imposed by a state policy or international authority.

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Rape during the Darfur genocide

Throughout the ongoing Darfur genocide in the Darfur war there has been a systematic campaign of rape, which has been used as a weapon of war, in the ethnic cleansing of black Africans from the region.

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Refugee

A refugee, conventionally speaking, is a person who has lost the protection of their country of origin and who cannot or is unwilling to return there due to well-founded fear of persecution. Such a person may be called an asylum seeker until granted refugee status by a contracting state or by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) if they formally make a claim for asylum.

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Refugee camp

A refugee camp is a temporary settlement built to receive refugees and people in refugee-like situations.

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Republic of Sudan (1985–2019)

This article covers the period of the history of Sudan between 1985 and 2019 when the Sudanese Defense Minister Abdel Rahman Swar al-Dahab seized power from Sudanese President Gaafar Nimeiry in the 1985 Sudanese coup d'état.

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Richard Branson

Sir Richard Charles Nicholas Branson (born 18 July 1950) is an English business magnate best known for co-founding the Virgin Group in 1970, which today controls more than 400 companies in various fields.

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Rwandan genocide

The Rwandan genocide, also known as the genocide against the Tutsi, occurred between 7 April and 19 July 1994 during the Rwandan Civil War. Darfur genocide and Rwandan genocide are ethnic cleansing in Africa.

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Saleh Jerbo

Saleh Mohammed Jerbo Jamus, commonly referred to as Saleh Jerbo (1 January 1977 – 19 April 2013), was the Chief-of-Staff of the SLA-Unity.

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Samantha Power

Samantha Jane Power (born September 21, 1970) is a British-American journalist, diplomat, and government official who is currently serving as the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development.

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Save Darfur Coalition

The Save Darfur Coalition was an advocacy group that attempted "to raise public awareness and mobilize a massive response to the atrocities in Sudan's western region of Darfur." Headquartered in Washington, D.C., it was a coalition of more than 190 religious, political, and human rights organizations organized to campaign for a response to the atrocities of the War in Darfur, which culminated in a humanitarian crisis.

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Scorched earth

A scorched-earth policy is a military strategy of destroying everything that allows an enemy military force to be able to fight a war, including the deprivation and destruction of water, food, humans, animals, plants and any kind of tools and infrastructure.

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Secretary-General of the United Nations

The secretary-general of the United Nations (UNSG or UNSECGEN) is the chief administrative officer of the United Nations and head of the United Nations Secretariat, one of the six principal organs of the United Nations.

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Sudan

Sudan, officially the Republic of the Sudan, is a country in Northeast Africa.

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Sudan Liberation Movement/Army

The Sudan Liberation Movement/Army (حركة تحرير السودان Ḥarakat Taḥrīr as-Sūdān; abbreviated SLM, SLA, or SLM/A) is a Sudanese rebel group active in Darfur, Sudan.

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Sudanese Armed Forces

The Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF; Al-Quwwat al-Musallaha as-Sudaniyah) are the military forces of the Republic of the Sudan.

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Sudanese civil war (2023–present)

A civil war between two rival factions of the military government of Sudan, the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) under Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) under the Janjaweed leader Hemedti, began during Ramadan on 15 April 2023.

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The Christian Science Monitor

The Christian Science Monitor (CSM), commonly known as The Monitor, is a nonprofit news organization that publishes daily articles both in electronic format and a weekly print edition.

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The Devil Came on Horseback

The Devil Came on Horseback is a documentary film by Ricki Stern and Anne Sundberg illustrating the continuing Darfur Conflict in Sudan.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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Torture

Torture is the deliberate infliction of severe pain or suffering on a person for reasons including punishment, extracting a confession, interrogation for information, intimidating third parties, or entertainment.

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United Nations

The United Nations (UN) is a diplomatic and political international organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and serve as a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations.

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United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is a United Nations agency mandated to aid and protect refugees, forcibly displaced communities, and stateless people, and to assist in their voluntary repatriation, local integration or resettlement to a third country.

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United Nations peacekeeping

Peacekeeping by the United Nations is a role of the UN's Department of Peace Operations as an "instrument developed by the organization as a way to help countries torn by conflict to create the conditions for lasting peace".

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United Nations Security Council

The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) is one of the six principal organs of the United Nations (UN) and is charged with ensuring international peace and security, recommending the admission of new UN members to the General Assembly, and approving any changes to the UN Charter.

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United Nations Security Council resolution

A United Nations Security Council resolution (UNSCR) is a United Nations resolution adopted by the Security Council (UNSC), the United Nations (UN) 15-member body charged with "primary responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security".

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United Nations System

The United Nations System consists of the United Nations' six principal bodies (the General Assembly, Security Council, Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), Trusteeship Council, International Court of Justice (ICJ), and the UN Secretariat), the Specialized Agencies and related organizations.

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United Nations–African Union Mission in Darfur

The African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur (known by its acronym UNAMID) was a joint African Union (AU) and United Nations (UN) peacekeeping mission formally approved by United Nations Security Council Resolution 1769 on 31 July 2007, to bring stability to the war-torn Darfur region of Sudan while peace talks on a final settlement continue.

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United States Agency for International Development

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is an independent agency of the United States government that is primarily responsible for administering civilian foreign aid and development assistance.

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United States Department of State

The United States Department of State (DOS), or simply the State Department, is an executive department of the U.S. federal government responsible for the country's foreign policy and relations.

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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) is the United States' official memorial to the Holocaust.

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Uwe Boll

Uwe Boll (born 22 June 1965) is a German filmmaker.

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War in Darfur

The War in Darfur, also nicknamed the Land Cruiser War, was a major armed conflict in the Darfur region of Sudan that began in February 2003 when the Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM) and the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) rebel groups began fighting against the government of Sudan, which they accused of oppressing Darfur's non-Arab population. Darfur genocide and war in Darfur are ethnic cleansing in Africa and human rights abuses in Sudan.

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Zaghawa people

The Zaghawa people, also called Beri or Zakhawa, are an ethnic group primarily residing in southwestern Libya, northeastern Chad, and western Sudan, including Darfur.

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Zalingei

Zalingei or Zalinjay (زالنجي) is a town in Western Sudan, and it is capital of Central Darfur state.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darfur_genocide

Also known as Darfuri genocide, Ethnic cleansing of Darfur, Genocide in Darfur, Genocide in Sudan, Genocide of darfur, International response to the Darfur genocide, Sudan genocide, Sudanese genocide.

, Mia Farrow, Muraheleen, Nicholas Kristof, North Darfur, Nyala, South Darfur, Omar al-Bashir, Outline of genocide studies, Peter Takirambudde, Population transfer, Rape during the Darfur genocide, Refugee, Refugee camp, Republic of Sudan (1985–2019), Richard Branson, Rwandan genocide, Saleh Jerbo, Samantha Power, Save Darfur Coalition, Scorched earth, Secretary-General of the United Nations, Sudan, Sudan Liberation Movement/Army, Sudanese Armed Forces, Sudanese civil war (2023–present), The Christian Science Monitor, The Devil Came on Horseback, The New York Times, Torture, United Nations, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, United Nations peacekeeping, United Nations Security Council, United Nations Security Council resolution, United Nations System, United Nations–African Union Mission in Darfur, United States Agency for International Development, United States Department of State, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Uwe Boll, War in Darfur, Zaghawa people, Zalingei.

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See also

2000s murders in Africa

2000s murders in Sudan

2003 murders in Sudan

2010 murders in Sudan

2010s murders in Africa

2010s murders in Sudan

2020s murders in Sudan

Ethnic cleansing in Africa

Genocide of indigenous peoples in Africa

Human rights abuses in Sudan

Racism in Africa

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