After a murderous rampage which has left around 50,000 dead and a further 1.4 million homeless, there are growing fears that Sudan's government-sponsored Arab militias are involved in a covert operation to force displaced people back into the homes they have fled, to divert international attention from the crisis. Pressure has been growing on the Sudanese government to end the year-long campaign by the militiamen, or Janjaweed, and government soldiers who have have been burning, raping, looting and killing their way across the Sudanese province of Darfur in a bid to ethnically cleanse the area of black, non-Arab Africans. The terror has forced communities to flee their homes, livelihood and families and has been labelled 'genocide' by the United States.
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