A Look into the Genocide, Terrorism and Media in the Sudan

The Sudan is the largest nation in Africa. Located in northeastern Africa it is in size more than one-fourth of America. The land is bordered by Chad 1,360 km, Central African Republic of the Congo 628 km, Kenya 232 km, Ethiopia 1,606 km, Eritrea 605 km, Uganda 435 km and Libya 383 km. The Sudan has one of the most prominent ethnic split, between brown-skinned Muslims in the North and black skinned non-Muslims in the South (Gatlin). The people in Darfur being attacked are from the south of Sudan (Gatlin). "There's a split in Sudan that more or less facilitates what people are calling a genocide," (Gatlin). The current problem in Sudan has been happening since 1956, when Sudan became independent from Britain (Gatlin).

Egypt gave up authority of the Sudan in 1954. Egypt's rule of the Sudan went back to Muhammad Ali's pre-colonialism conquests. This followed with Britain negotiating Sudan's independence constitution in 1956. Unity within the Sudan remained the same. During the colonial period Muslim-dominated north and non-Muslim south was ruled by the British as two different territories. Following independence an Islamisation Campaign was started by northerners to reinforce national unity in the south. The campaign from the northern Sudanese was not acceptable by the non-Muslim southerners who believed the rule is just as bad as the British rule. As a result the country has been turn apart from civil wars for the 1960's as well as in the 80's and 90's. (Shillington 387)