History:
- The Arab Islamist Regime was engaged in a drawn out war of conquest against black Christian and animist people in the southern regions of Sudan. This warned that genocide could follow 16 years before it really started.
- Arabs were mainly the makers and creators of the society and culture in Darfur.
- The separate agricultural groups caused conflict over land use, this caused warfare and violence between the tribes.
- In the mid 1980s Arabs were given arms by the Sudanese government
- Civil war in Chad increased the flow of arms in the regions surrounding it
- In Darfur, people were forced to identify themselves as either Arab or black
- The Fur-Arab conflict of the late 1980s took the lives of about 3,000 people and obliterated villages in its wake
- Violence ensued in 1996 when Janjaweed riders attacked the non-Arab Masalit tribe
- Janjaweed fighters burned the Masalit villages and more than 100,000 Masalit fled to surrounding countries
