In February 2003, the Darfur Liberation Front (DLF) attacked Sudanese military installations in protest of the government’s unequal treatment of and violence toward the region’s non-Arab peoples. This sparked a brutal response in which Sudanese government troops and armed Arab militias committed gross human rights violations against the non-Arab peoples of Darfur. In July 2004 the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum declared a Genocide Emergency for the Darfur region of Sudan.
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