Darfur is just the latest in military and paramilitary attacks in the name of ethnic cleansing and its terrifying relationship with oil development. The Nuba, Nuer, and Dinka are all minority groups within Sudan that have been terrorized and displaced in the last 20 years of the Sudanese civil war. The Nuba are the most widely known because of German photographer Leni Reifenstahl’s idealized portraits of the historic tribes people. For a complete history, see “Sudan, Oil, and Human Rights” at film at the Human Rights Watch website.
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