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The Beja people ((アラビア語:البجا)) are an ethnic group inhabiting Sudan, as well as parts of Eritrea, Egypt, and the Sahara desert. They speak the Beja language as a mother tongue, which belongs to the Afro-Asiatic family. SIL Ethnologue cites an estimate of a total population of 1.2 million based on information dating to 1982.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://archive.ethnologue.com/14/show_language.asp?code=BEI )〕 More recent estimates cite a total population close to 2.5 million.〔 ==History== The Beja are a traditionally pastoralist Cushitic people native to the territory in the extreme northeast of Sudan. They were partially Christianised in the 6th century, and the southern Beja were part of the kingdom of Axum in the early medieval period. The Beja were Islamized beginning in the 15th century. The now-Islamic Beja participated in the further Muslim conquest of Sudan, expanding southward. The Hadendowa Beja by the 18th century dominated much of eastern Sudan. In the Mahdist War of the 1880s to 1890s, the Beja fought on either side, the Hadendoa siding with the rebels while the Bisharin and Amarar sided with the British.〔Orville Boyd Jenkins, (Profile of the Beja people ) (1996, 2009).〕 The ''Beja Congress'' was formed in 1952 with the aim of pursuing regional autonomy against the government in Khartoum. Frustrated by the lack of progress, the Beja Congress joined the insurgent National Democratic Alliance in the 1990s. The Beja Congress effectively controlled a part of eastern Sudan centered around Garoura and Hamshkoraib. The Beja Congress sabotaged the oil pipeline to Port Sudan several times during 1999 and 2000. In 2003, they rejected the peace deal arranged between the Sudanese government and the SPLM/A, and allied with the rebel movement of the Darfur region, the Sudan Liberation Army (SLA), in January 2004. A peace agreement was signed with the government of Sudan in October 2006. In general elections in April 2010, the Beja Congress did not win a single seat in the National Assembly in Khartoum. In anger over alleged election fraud and the slow implementation of the peace agreement, the Beja Congress in October 2011 withdrew from the agreement, and later announced an alliance with the Sudan Revolutionary Front (SRF). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Beja people」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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