Armed groups are likely committing ethnic cleansings and atrocities in Darfur — again

Varyk , 1 month ago

That never stopped, right? Hasn’t the darfur genocide been continuing this whole time?

jeffw OP , 1 month ago

I am not a historian nor a scholar on Africa but I thought the genocide was a short lived thing (edit: relative to other genocides, like it lasted a handful of years). Conflict is not necessarily the same as genocide.

Maybe I’m an idiot but I thought the South Sudan independence thing was part of a treaty. Unless that’s unrelated to the Darfur violence?

Varyk , 1 month ago

Wikipedia lists the genocide as ongoing since 2003, although most of the killings occurred from 2003 to 2005; I don’t understand the ethnic killings in darfur to have ever completely stopped.

In 2019 a civilian government came to power, but then there was a military coup in 2023 by many of the same people that perpetrated the genocide in 2003, so it’s starting back up in force, as I understand:

encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/darfur

jeffw OP , 1 month ago

Interesting! Ig I was thinking of 2003-2005 when I thought about the genocide. I did know about the 2023 stuff but ig I didn’t realize they had a legit govt since 2019

Varyk , 1 month ago

Yeah. The attacks by the government committing the genocide and rebel groups continued after 2005 and the “treaty”, and while it was still a targeted ethnic genocide, it wasn’t as scaled as those first two years.

Then in 2019, the people revolted got the government back for 2 years, and then in 2021 the military got it back and now the ethnic killing started again in 2023.

The media cycle about the d arfyr genocide was reporting on the genocide for those 2 years, but ethnic killings in darfur never completely stopped for the past 20 years.

Fizz , 1 month ago

Aw not again.