CAUSES OF CIVIL WAR IN SUDAN FROM 1955 - 2005
The British policy of indirect rule facilitated the civil war, the British had used the northern Arabs to govern the southerners and the whole of Sudan and the Arabs were so brutal to the Negros. On granting independence to the Arabs, suspicion and mistrust arose hence a civil war could not be avoided. President Omar El-Bashir The existence of two divergent races in Sudan prepared fertile grounds for the war. The Arabs and Africans differed in cultures, physical appearance and to make matters worse there was the Arab discrimination of Africans on an African soil. By the 1940’s it was very clear that civil strife was inevitable in Sudan. Difference in numbers further created tension in Sudan. The Africans were the minority that is about 11 million. The Africans were convinced that if they don not fight they could easily be evacuated at the same time the numerical strength of the Arabs convinced them that they could not be defeated by the blacks in case of war. It is therefore not ...