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===Sudanese Civil War===
The [[Second Sudanese Civil War]] from 1983 to 2005 has been described as an [[ethnoreligious]] conflict where the Muslim central government's pursuits to impose sharia law on non-Muslim southerners led to violence, and eventually to the civil war. The war resulted in the independence of [[South Sudan]] six years after the war ended. Sudan is majority-Muslim and South Sudan is majority-Christian.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://countrystudies.us/sudan/63.htm | work=[[Library of Congress Country Studies|Country Studies]] | title=Sudan | publisher=Library of Congress | quote=The factors that provoked the military coup, primarily the closely intertwined issues of Islamic law and of the civil war in the south, remained unresolved in 1991. The September 1983 implementation of the sharia throughout the country had been controversial and provoked widespread resistance in the predominantly non-Muslim south ... Opposition to the sharia, especially to the application of hudud (sing., hadd), or Islamic penalties, such as the public amputation of hands for theft, was not confined to the south and had been a principal factor leading to the popular uprising of April 1985 that overthrew the government of Jaafar an Nimeiri | access-date=10 January 2016 | archive-date=23 June 2011 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110623125406/http://countrystudies.us/sudan/63.htm | url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/sudan/facts.html |title=PBS Frontline: "Civil war was sparked in 1983 when the military regime tried to impose sharia law as part of its overall policy to "Islamicize" all of Sudan." |publisher=Pbs.org |access-date=4 April 2012 |archive-date=4 March 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120304223804/http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/sudan/facts.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/world/pdf/darfur_040707.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080515104053/http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/world/pdf/darfur_040707.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-date=2008-05-15 |quotation=The war flared again in 1983 after then-President Jaafar Nimeri abrogated the peace accord and announced he would turn Sudan into a Muslim Arab state, where Islamic law, or sharia, would prevail, including in the southern provinces. Sharia can include amputation of limbs for theft, public flogging and stoning. The war, fought between the government and several rebel groups, continued for two decades. |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|title=Sudan at War With Itself}}</ref><ref>[[Bassam Tibi|Tibi, Bassam]] (2008). ''Political Islam, World Politics and Europe''. [[Routledge]]. p. 33. "The shari'a was imposed on non-Muslim Sudanese peoples in September 1983, and since that time Muslims in the north have been fighting a jihad against the non-Muslims in the south."</ref>