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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.

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 demagogue [[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>

[[Liberal denial|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>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darfur_conflict</ref>  The ultra-leftist British demagogue [[George Galloway]] has called the genocide "one of the big lies that [[George W. Bush|Bush]] and [[Tony Blair|Blair]] have invented."<ref>https://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>     

The [[Human Rights Commission]] expressed:

The [[Human Rights Commission]] expressed:

:...deep concern over the ongoing violations of human rights and international [[humanitarian law]] in Darfur. [http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/hrcouncil/docs/6session/A.HRC.6.19AEV_en.pdf]

:...deep concern over the ongoing violations of human rights and international humanitarian law in Darfur. [http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/hrcouncil/docs/6session/A.HRC.6.19AEV_en.pdf]

Citing U.N. statistics, Ban Ki Moon claimed that average precipitation has declined some 40 percent since the early 1980s and that it coincided with a rise in temperatures of the Indian Ocean, disrupting seasonal monsoons, suggesting that the drying of sub-Saharan Africa derives, to some degree, from [[global warming]].<ref>[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/15/AR2007061501857.html A Climate Culprit In Darfur], By Ban Ki Moon, ''Washington Post'', June 16, 2007, Page A15</ref>

Citing U.N. statistics, Ban Ki Moon claimed that average precipitation has declined some 40 percent since the early 1980s and that it coincided with a rise in temperatures of the Indian Ocean, disrupting seasonal monsoons, suggesting that the drying of sub-Saharan Africa derives, to some degree, from [[global warming]].<ref>[https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/15/AR2007061501857.html A Climate Culprit In Darfur], By Ban Ki Moon, ''Washington Post'', June 16, 2007, Page A15</ref>

==Further reading==

==Further reading==

*  Amanda F. Grzyb, ed. '' World and Darfur: International Response to Crimes Against Humanity in Western Sudan'' (2nd ed. 2010)

*  Amanda F. Grzyb, ed. ''World and Darfur: International Response to Crimes Against Humanity in Western Sudan'' (2nd ed. 2010)

==References==

==References==