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6 PM CJSR FM-88.5 Edmonton www.cjsr.com The crisis in Darfur specifically and Sudan generally is horrifying. According to some sources, “ Since 2003 between two and four hundred thousand people have been killed by the armed militias known as the Janjaweed; as many as two and a half million people, 75 to 85 percent of them women and children, have been displaced.” Yet finding solutions to the problem is made worse by several factors, especially popular misunderstanding of the crisis and ongoing debate over the appropriateness of the term genocide . Worse still is the decision of a number of groups to exploit the crisis for their own political or even financial benefit. The popularity of the “Save Darfur” campaign among groups traditionally indifferent to Afrikan suffering is more easily understood when scanning for anti-Arab and anti-Muslim bias among the organisers. By their own descriptions, Sudan is a struggle of so-called Arabs against what they describe as “Black Africans....