By the spring of 2004, several thousand people – mostly from the non-Arab population – had been killed and as many as a million more had been driven from their homes, causing a major humanitarian crisis.
2004年の春までに（ほとんど非アラブ人口の）数千人が殺され、100万以上の人々が家を追われ、その結果、地域に大きな人道上の危機が引き起こされた。