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To: Wuli
the so-called rebel groups they are fighting against in Darfur are largely black African ethnic groups that include both Christians and Muslims.

This is incorrect. There are few if any Christians in Darfur. You are confusing this conflict with that in southern Sudan, which has been underway for 20+ years. In southern Sudan, most of the inhabitants are Christians or animists.

20 posted on 05/03/2006 1:43:44 PM PDT by Restorer
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To: Restorer

Also, in southern Sudan, the conflict has been settled by a peace treaty and power-sharing agreement with provisions for a referendum on independence in the next 5-10 years.


21 posted on 05/03/2006 2:31:49 PM PDT by zimdog
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To: Restorer

No my friend, you are wrong. There are Christians in Darfur, and they are black Africans and just like their black African Muslim neighbors, they are under the gun of the Sudanese Arab militias.

From: http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2004/005/9.17.html
Christianity Today Magazine
Christianity Today, May 2004
Copyright © 2004 Christianity Today.
May 2004, Vol. 48, No. 5, Page 17

Ethnic Cleansing
Christians among hundreds of thousands displaced.
By Richard Nyberg | posted 04/14/2004

Negotiators in Kenya were about to put finishing touches on peace accords ending two decades of civil war in southern Sudan. But in recent months pro-government militias have razed scores of villages, raping and looting in their drive to rout two rebel groups in the western Darfur region.

It is a campaign widely described as ethnic cleansing of mostly black African Muslims and some Christians in Darfur. An armed Arab Muslim militia, on horses and camels, has forced 110,000 people to take up refuge at makeshift camps in neighboring Chad. There are also an estimated 700,000 internally displaced people throughout the region.

Although in the minority, Christians are among the thousands of terrified Sudanese driven from their homes. Church sources in Sudan told Christianity Today that most of these Christians had previously fled to Darfur from the south. Christians and animists there have been engulfed in war with the Muslim-led government since 1983.

The largest communion present in Darfur is the Roman Catholic Church, with 143,000 adherents. People also belong to the Sudan Presbyterian Evangelical Church, the Sudan Pentecostal Church, the Coptic Orthodox Church, and the Episcopal Church of the Sudan.
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34 posted on 05/03/2006 6:52:42 PM PDT by Wuli
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