Preventing and addressing violence and atrocities against minorities 2014, para. 7
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Following years of tensions and disputes over land, in 2003 conflict heightened in Darfur, Sudan, between the Government and rebel groups which accused it of oppressing non-Arab black Africans. Government forces and Arab self-defence militias, or Janjaweed, were accused of a systematic campaign to drive non-Arabs out of the region, resulting in up to 300,000 deaths, hundreds of villages destroyed and massive displacement. The United Nations Commission of Inquiry found that the crimes against humanity and war crimes committed in Darfur might be no less serious and heinous than genocide (see S/2005/60).