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Sudan's
government is guilty of "ethnic cleansing" and crimes against
humanity, charges a new report released Friday by Human Rights Watch that
accuses government-backed Arab militias of systematic attacks on black
Sudanese peasants and government forces of starving black Sudanese to
death in concentration camps.
HRW's 77-page report, 'Darfur Destroyed,' comes as the Security Council
is scheduled to hear a briefing on the situation in Darfur, which some
observers have compared to the genocide in Rwanda ten years ago. It also
comes amid reports of a new UN report that accuses the government and
the militias, known as the 'Janjaweed,' (men on horseback)
of systematically starving refugees under their control. 
More than seven million of the worlds nearly 12 million refugees have been confined to camps, special settlements, or other conditions in which their basic human rights have been denied for ten years or more, according to the 2004 World Refugee Survey released by the U.S. Committee for Refugees (USCR).
History
of genocide
Some say there was only one genocide in the last century - the Holocaust.
Other experts give a long list of what they consider cases of genocide, including the Soviet man-made famine of Ukraine (1932-33), the Indonesian invasion of East Timor (1975), and the Khmer Rouge killings in Cambodia in the 1970s.
Former Yugoslav leader Slobodan Milosevic is on trial in The Hague, charged with genocide in Bosnia from 1992-5.
However, some say there have been at least three genocides under the 1948 UN convention:
The mass killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks between 1915-1920 - an accusation that the Turks deny
The
Holocaust, during which more than six million Jews were killed
Rwanda, where an estimated 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus died in the
1994 genocide
In the case of Bosnia, many believe that massacres occurred as part of
a pattern of genocide, though some doubt that intent can be proved in
the case of Mr Milosevic
We will let thousands die for oil but turn our back on genocide and humanitarian efforts,
Why ? because your government has nothing to gain by preventing these atrocities !