Editing Sudan (section)

==== Darfur ====
{{Main|War in Darfur|International Criminal Court investigation in Darfur}}
[[File:Darfur refugee camp in Chad.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.3|Darfur refugee camp in [[Chad]], 2005]]
A 14 August 2006 letter from the executive director of [[Human Rights Watch]] found that the Sudanese government is both incapable of protecting its own citizens in [[Darfur]] and unwilling to do so, and that its [[militia]]s are guilty of [[crimes against humanity]]. The letter added that these human-rights abuses have existed since 2004.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://hrw.org/english/docs/2006/08/14/sudan13973.htm |date=15 August 2006 |title=Letter to the U.N. Security Council on Sudan Sanctions and Civilian Protection in Darfur |publisher=[[Human Rights Watch]] |access-date=4 June 2013 |archive-date=15 October 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081015142144/http://hrw.org/english/docs/2006/08/14/sudan13973.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref> Some reports attribute part of the violations to the rebels as well as the government and the [[Janjaweed]]. The U.S. State Department's human-rights report issued in March 2007 claims that "''[a]''ll parties to the conflagration committed serious abuses, including widespread killing of civilians, rape as a tool of war, systematic torture, robbery and recruitment of child soldiers."<ref>{{Cite news |url= https://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2007-03-06-human-rights_N.htm |agency=Associated Press |newspaper=USA Today |location =Washington DC |title=Darfur Tops U.S. List of Worst Human Rights Abuses |date=6 March 2007 |access-date=8 January 2011}}</ref>

Over 2.8&nbsp;million civilians have been displaced and the death toll is estimated at 300,000 killed.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/3496731.stm |title=Q&A: Sudan's Darfur conflict |work=BBC News |date=8 February 2010}}</ref> Both government forces and militias allied with the government are known to attack not only civilians in Darfur, but also humanitarian workers. Sympathisers of rebel groups are arbitrarily detained, as are foreign journalists, [[human rights defender|human-rights defender]]s, student activists and displaced people in and around Khartoum, some of whom face torture. The rebel groups have also been accused in a report issued by the U.S. government of attacking humanitarian workers and of killing innocent civilians.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://web.amnesty.org/report2006/sdn-summary-eng |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061103081151/http://web.amnesty.org/report2006/sdn-summary-eng|archive-date=3 November 2006|title=Sudan – Report 2006 |publisher=[[Amnesty International]] }}</ref> According to UNICEF, in 2008, there were as many as 6,000 [[child soldiers]] in Darfur.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7796507.stm|title=Africa – Sudan 'has 6,000 child soldiers'|access-date=15 February 2015}}</ref>