Is the Darfur Bloodshed Genocide? Opinions Differ - The Los Angeles Times

Reporting from El Fasher, Sudan -- What if the conflict many call the "first genocide of the 21st century" weren't one at all? 

In the United States, many see the six-year war in Darfur as a bloody campaign by a Sudanese Arab-dominated government against rebellious "African" tribes in western Sudan. Two consecutive American presidents and several activist groups have defined it as genocide.

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