The Sudan Civil War

Today at the beginning of class we took our first test.  I knew more things on the test than I thought I knew.  After everyone was finished taking the test, Mr.Schick tried to have us watch a video.  None of us really knew what it was about.  He and no one else could figure out how to get the sound on the video to work.  We all finally gave up trying with the sound.  He explained to us that Sudan was in many civil wars and that they were very tough and rigorous on the citizens.  The Second Sudanese Civil War was started in 1983 and lasted until 2005.  It was a result because of a conflict between the central Sudanese government and the Sudan People's Liberation Army.  Roughly about two million people died as a result of this war.  This is the most amount of people that have died in a war since World War II.  A few factors that led up to this war were natural resources and racial or religious discrimination.  Those people who lived in south Sudan had all of the rich resources and the central people did not.  70% of Sudan's profits demanded on oil which the South had.  Central Sudan is next to the Sudan desert which supplies nothing.  Also, the south of Sudan uses the Nile River as a water source and it helps keep he soil fertile.  As a result, central Sudan got jealous of all of the south's resources and started the civil war in anger.