At the beginning of the 20th century, the world stood by and witnessed the brutal murder of 1 million Armenians by the Turkish government in the Armenian Genocide (1915-18). Nearly half a century later, the Holocaust (1938-45) occurred in which 6 million Jews and other minorities were massacred in Germany by the Nazis. Subsequently, the world's most powerful nations vowed to "never again" allow another genocide and went on to create the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Towards the end of the century, we once again witnessed the Cambodian genocide caused by the Khmer Rouge (1975-79) and the Rwandan genocide (7 April-15 July 1994) between the Hutu and Tutsi ethnic groups. In the 21st century, the world has shown that it will never learn from its mistakes by allowing another genocide to occur in Sudan. In 2003, the United States and the rest of the world learned that they were fighting in an African region the size of France, known as Darfur. Although most people were familiar with the countries of Somalia, Rwanda and South Africa, the Darfur region was unfamiliar to them. The United States, however, was aware of Sudan when it “launched rocket attacks on its capital Khartoum in 1998, due to Sudan's alleged ties to al-Qaeda terrorists” (Hayes 2011: 4). The genocide in Darfur began when black African rebel groups protested against the Arab-dominated central government of Sudan, insisting on ending the social, economic and political downgrading of their area. The Sudanese government responded by supplying weapons to the Janjaweed, nomadic horse-riding Arab outlaws, and they engaged in the mass murder of black African farmers. Many Darfurians died and the genocide continues today. With... middle of paper......ence to overthrow the army. Five years later, in 1969, Colonel Ja'Far Muhammad Nimeiri succeeded in a coup and was elected president in 1983. Before Nimeiri came to power, the 1972 Addis Ababa Accords were established which guaranteed the South Sudanese the right to govern themselves. . After assuming the presidency, Nimeiri makes two crucial decisions that will lead to his death. The first is the issuing of an order to repeal the Addis Abba agreements, the southerners can no longer govern themselves, and this leads to the foundation of the Sudan People's Liberation Movements (SPLM/A). The second is the introduction of Shari law, which many Muslims were against. In 1985 Nimeiri was impeached and Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi assumed power. Four years later, in 1989, a small military force led by Omar al-Bashir once again struck al-Mahdi and in 1993 al-Bashir appointed himself president..