ABSTRACT
The broad strokes of the ongoing crisis in Darfur are by now well known. Although precise figures are impossible to determine, it is widely agreed that roughly 300,000 civilians have perished as a result of the conflict (estimates range up to and above 400,000) since its current phase began in 2003. Well over 2 million have been uprooted and displaced; the majority of the region’s roughly 6 million people are dependent on humanitarian relief for basic subsistence needs, and ongoing violence has made many inaccessible to the humanitarian agencies responsible for delivering this aid. Rape and other humanitarian atrocities have been extensively perpetrated by the janjawiid militias, which have been armed and abetted by the Government of Sudan (GoS).
