Kalibah

First off it IS A religius conflict



Backed by Muslim clerics, the National Islamic Front regime in the Arab and Muslim north declared a jihad, or holy war, on the south in 1989. Since 1983, an estimated 2 million people have died from war and related famine. About 4.5 million have become refugees.

Sudan's holy war against the south was reaffirmed in October by First Vice President Ali Osman Taha.

"The jihad is our way, and we will not abandon it and will keep its banner high," he said to a brigade of mujahedin fighters heading for the war front, according to Sudan's official SUNA news agency. "We will never sell out our faith and will never betray the oath to our martyrs.


n 1986, Musba entered the Uduk tribal capital of Chali and declared to its Christians: "You are all going to convert from Christianity to Islam today, because here is what's going to happen to you if you don't."

Musba then killed five church leaders in front of the gathered villagers. When they refused to convert, he began killing unarmed men, women and children. Some were herded at gunpoint into a hut then run over by a 50-ton, Soviet-made tank.

He also herded groups of about a dozen people into a hut, where he asked the first person "Do you renounce Jesus Christ?" Anyone who refused was killed by a three-inch nail driven into the top of the head.


They are making women CONVERT or else they get gang-raped

The North is Islamic, the south is generally not.

Thats A religous war


Forced conversions to Islam is a part of government policy.

http://www.persecution.org/Countries/sudan.html


http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/ar...TICLE_ID=26672









During the civil war- the South viewed itself as being seperate from the north- thus to them the North invaded the confederacy.


It stems from the Suden Liberation army wanting to be Free from tthe north
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For an interim period of six years, Sudan is to remain one country, with Omar al-Bashir, the current president, remaining in office, and with Mr Garang, the rebel leader, as his deputy. Then there is to be a referendum in which southerners will be offered the choice of staying or seceding.
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So yes to them, they are invaded.



Then the janjaweed—an Arab militia that kills for the Sudanese government—rode up to finish the job.



Dont give me that crap about open your mind. Apparently it is YOU that doesn't have a firm grasp on the facts. As for what is there- its NOT a war over land. Its a holy war as I have just pointed out. There is NO reason the Arab militia men are fighting the Rebels in the south other than because of the "jihad" as the president himself put it


http://www.vitrade.com/who_is_who/ba...e_achieved.htm


AGAIN stated by the PResident- this is a HOLY WAR- that is the definiation of a JIHAD


And it is a wasteland- villages burned,

"Human rights groups say that since violence flared in Darfur last year around 30,000 people have been killed, and more than 1 million non-Arabic-speaking locals have fled their villages, turning the sparsely populated province into a true wasteland."



So when villages are being burned, people killed, and everyone is fleeing- it isnt a Wasteland???

Its already a desert- people lived there. When they are gone- yes its a wasteland. That region- was wasnt refering to the country- I was refering to the region


What would you call it? I suppose a warzone might be better fitting- but essentially its the same thing