While there is a consensus in the international community that ethnic groups have been targeted in Darfur and that crimes against humanity have therefore occurred, there has been debate in some quarte
Dead animals lie in the middle of a burned and looted village in Darfur
UN Security Council chamber
![Destroyed villages as of August 2004[update] (Source: DigitalGlobe, Inc. and Department of State via USAID)](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/54/Villages_destroyed_in_the_Darfur_Sudan_2AUG2004.jpg/500px-Villages_destroyed_in_the_Darfur_Sudan_2AUG2004.jpg)
Destroyed villages as of August 2004[update] (Source: DigitalGlobe, Inc. and Department of State via USAID)
IDP camp near Nyala, South Darfur
War in Darfur
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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 and the Justice and Equa
International response to the War in Darfur
…charge Omar al-Bashir for genocide, but affirmed the indictment for five counts of crimes against humanity and two counts of war crimes relating to the Darfur counter-insurgency conflict. The warrant alleges violations such as murder, rape, extermination, forcible transfer, torture, pillaging, and attacks against civilian populations…
The Janjaweed have been a major player in the conflict.
Darfur refugee camp in Chad, 2005
AMIS soldiers from Rwanda preparing to depart to Darfur in 2005
Minni Minnawi with U.S. President George W. Bush after he signed the May agreement