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'''Darfur''' is a region of [[Sudan]] where hundreds of thousands of people have been systematically slaughtered through massacre and forced starvation organized by government-supported [[Janjaweed]] militias.  

'''Darfur''' is a region of [[Sudan]] where hundreds of thousands of people have been systematically slaughtered through massacre and forced starvation organized by government-supported [[Janjaweed]] militias.  

This planned mass murder campaign was authored at the highest levels of the Sudanese government and deliberately intended to crush a minor insurgency from the South by exterminating a large percentage of each of the three ethnic groups that disproportionately comprised its supporters.  The regime has used rape, starvation, mass expulsions, terror bombing, random massacres and organized terrorism to carry out this bloodbath.

This planned mass murder campaign was authored at the highest levels of the Sudanese government and deliberately intended to crush a minor insurgency from the east by exterminating a large percentage of each of the three ethnic groups that disproportionately comprised its supporters.  The regime has used rape, starvation, mass expulsions, terror bombing, random massacres and organized terrorism to carry out this bloodbath.

Left-wing deniers have ridiculed the idea of genocide in Darfur,<ref>http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2005/oct/07/usa.sudan/print</ref> calling it a fabrication made up by the imperialist "evil empire" America to steal Sudan's oil.  Wikipedia writes that "some" have "alleged" a death toll in the hundreds of thousands, but this is "controversial."<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darfur_conflict</ref>  The ultra-leftist British demagouge George Galloway has called the genocide "one of the big lies that [[Bush]] and [[Blair]] have invented."<ref>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R77g1o5K428</ref>

Left-wing deniers have ridiculed the idea of genocide in Darfur,<ref>http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2005/oct/07/usa.sudan/print</ref> calling it a fabrication made up by the imperialist "evil empire" America to steal Sudan's oil.  Wikipedia writes that "some" have "alleged" a death toll in the hundreds of thousands, but this is "controversial."<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darfur_conflict</ref>  The ultra-leftist British demagouge [[George Galloway]] has called the genocide "one of the big lies that [[Bush]] and [[Blair]] have invented."<ref>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R77g1o5K428</ref>

Some 450,000 people have been killed.<ref>http://www.sudanreeves.org/Article102.html</ref>     

Some 450,000 people have been killed.<ref>http://www.sudanreeves.org/Article102.html</ref>