ABSTRACT
The first acknowledged genocide of the twenty-first century—the Government of Sudan (GOS) troop's and Janjaweed mass killing of black Africans of Darfur in the Sudan—has involved widespread sexual assault and rape against the females of the victim group. For many years, the black Africans of Darfur decried the hegemony of the North, as well as the fact that they have suffered prejudice, discrimination and disenfranchisement. Beginning in the early- to mid-1990s, Arab herders began carrying out attacks against entire villages of sedentary black African farmers. Arab nomadic attacks against black Africans were becoming more brazen, more frequent, more vicious and more costly in terms of lost lives and destroyed villages, farm land, et al. As the international community dithers, innocent people in Darfur continue to be murdered, die as a result of malnutrition, dehydration and lack of medication attention, and suffer rape at the hands of the GOS troops and Janjaweed.
