What sort of music do you listen to?
sinequanone
William suspects that his village was wiped out by the northern government's Islamic army, which has engaged in a brutal 17-year campaign to break the south and bring it under Khartoum's sway. As much as it is a religious war in which light-skinned Arabs oppose dark-skinned Africans, it is also a battle for control over southern Sudan's undeveloped resources -- its oil fields and arable soil. And caught in between are the Dinka and Nuer tribes, who have seen their villages burned, their livestock stolen, their families decimated. Civilians are deliberately targeted, and access to food aid is manipulated as a matter of military strategy, resulting in widespread famine. The systematic violence and destruction in southern Sudan must be counted as one of the last century's most brutal wars.