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You have to go off-site and noodle-around on multiple sites to learn that there are at least three planes-of-cleavage.
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| Many of the victims belonged to the Fur Tribe in Darfur | 
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| Many others were members of the Berti tribe | 
- The attackers are primarily Zaghawa who are nominally Sunni Muslims. The victims are primarily Christians and Animists.
- The attackers are ethnically north-Africans/Mediterranean (like Berbers, Egyptians and Moroccans). The victims are Blacks (sub-Saharan Africans). Note that the government of Sudan is dominated by Arabs/north-Africans.
- The attackers belong to a tribe that is historically nomadic/pastoral. The victims belong to tribes that are historically sedentary/agricultural.
Also of interest to those of us in the United States, the attackers played free-agent since 2003, siding with whatever political movement happened to give them the best support (weapons) at any given time. The reason that I think that is important is because whoever controls the purse-strings controls Antifa, whose loyalty is not tied to principles but to expedience. Their flipping allegiance (perhaps not probable in the next five years but it IS possible) would be devastating to U.S. cities.
Another thing to keep an eye on is that the RSF (attackers) changed their name from Janjaweed in 2013 in a sort of rebranding, market-relaunch.
Also like the United States (and Iraq and Afghanistan and the Balkans), the ethnic diversity has a high degree of granularity, something like a Christmas fruit-cake.Many will dismiss the genocide as "Africa being Africa". That is short-sighted. We have African-tribalism (and Iraqi and Afghani and Balkan tribalism) living in our cities. We also have the inexorable drifting apart of Left and Right, much like a canoe that was untied from the dock.
North America is not "Africa", yet.

 
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