The Conflict In Darfur

The conflict in Darfur has become infamous worldwide for being a brutal and racially targeted genocide and the largest act of ethnic cleansing in the 21st century with approximately 300,000 deaths recorded by the UN. After more than a decade of fighting, intergovernmental organizations, NGOs, and scholars are still disputing the origins of the conflict. Most genocides like the Darfur conflict are brought on by a buildup of antagonism towards another group slowly surfacing over a period of numerous decades if not centuries. The Holocaust arose through anti-Semitic sentiment shared across the Nazi political party. The Rwandan genocide occurred due to a feeling of political inferiority among the Hutu people. As such, many researchers believe there