Genocide. Diversity in Darfur resulted in a major armed conflict in the Darfur region of Sudan, beginning in February 2003 when the Sudan Liberation Movement and Justice and Equality Movement rebel groups began fighting the Sudanese government, which they accused of oppressing Darfur's non-Arab population. The government responded to attacks by carrying out ethnic cleansing against Darfur's non-Arabs, resulting in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of civilians and the indictment of Sudan's president Omar al-Bashir for genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Court.