11 Facts about Darfur

Over the past five years, over 400,000 Darfurian civilians have been killed.
150,000 people have died directly from acts of violence in Darfur.
90% of the villages of Darfur’s targeted ethnic groups have been destroyed.
97% of these killings have been against innocent civilians and executed by militia groups instructed by the government.
80 infants die each day in Darfur due to a lack of proper nutrition
80% of those displaced are women and young girls who are consistently the victims of sexual violence and abducted into sexual slavery
Humanitarian refugee camps in Chad and Sudan are overcrowded, disease infested, and prone to attacks.
2.8 million people have been displaced within Sudan.
250,000 people have fled Darfur, mainly to Chad where they are facing further violence.
Despite an abundance of oil and other natural resources, the vast majority of Sudan’s people live in poverty, and its Government has been described as ‘the most repressive regime in the world’.
On September 9th 2004, United States Secretary of State Colin Powell said the Darfur conflict was genocide, and called it the worst humanitarian crisis of the 21st century. This is the first time the Untied States has ever declared genocide while the genocide was still happening.

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