Sudan Civil War

The Second Sudanese Civil War started in 1983 and ended in 2005. It was fought between the People’s Liberation Army and the Republic of Sudan. The government was made up of several groups that were heavily armed. The war was a combination of conflicts between races with the Arabs being in the central government and the Africans supported by the People’s Army and the countries of Ethiopia, Eritrea, and Uganda. Over a million people were killed and they were mostly civilians. They died because of lack of food and no water due to the drought. The war also was divided by religion. The government was Muslim and the People’s Army was a combination of African religions and Christians. The fall of the national economy, made things worse as prices went up and riots started. Government leaders were forced to move toward a peace plan or be forced out of office. The more the government tried to force things on the people, the more they fought against it. As people protested, the government attacked them. With the two year drought, came a lack of food and water and wide spread illness. Women and children were forced into slavery and villages were attacked. A peace treaty was signed in 2005 where the countries split oil money, the religion became Islamic, jobs were split between the government and the people and the armies were merged.