Genocide In Sudan

Darfur is the western region of the African country of Sudan. Currently, the people of Darfur have been continually attacked by the Sudanese army and by proxy-militia controlled by the Sudanese government. Families are being uprooted and starved, children tormented and murdered by the thousands and women raped without punishment. Innocent civilians in Darfur continue to be victims of unthinkable brutality. Many people have become homeless and seek protection in refugee camps in Chad. Yet despite its outward appearance, Darfur has a vast ethnic diversity and a complex, ancient system of resolving conflict. Genocide has occurred in several places around the world, but in Darfur there are certain reasons why it

The Sudan is home to two civil wars taking place dating back hundreds of years. “The older of the two, pitting the Muslim revels from the south, has claimed 2m lives in the past two decades, and spurred 4m people to abandon their homes.”(Economist 11) Although the two sides in this old war are close to a peace resolution, a new insurgence has begun in the region pitting “Arabs” against the “black Africans”, in an effort to attract peace concessions from the Sudanese government just as the older rebels did years before. An uprising by rebel groups against government targets sparked this new war because they felt neglected by the Sudanese government. But the response of the government to the new revolt falls extremely short of peace concessions, and instead perpetuates an environment of violence, torture and depression. The government has given its own militia, the janjaweed, free reign to pillage, rape and kill black civilians in a futile attempt to squelch the revolt. This can be see as an “ethnic cleansing” in which the government feels that the killings of blacks will hopefully rid the country of the rebels given that the Darfur rebels are mostly black Africans. Thus, the Sudanese

In recent times, the media has highlighted the genocide that has been occurring in Darfur, Sudan. Darfur, Sudan is a country roughly the size of the state of Texas (Darfur Scores, n.d.). Genocide is the systematic killing of an entire ethnic group of people from a national, ethnic, or religious group, or an attempt to do away with them all (Darfur Scores, n.d.). Beginning around 2003, according to Darfur Scores (n.d.), “the Sudanese government in Khartoum and the government-sponsored Janjaweed militia have used rape, displacement, organized starvation, threats against aid workers and mass murder. Violence, disease, and displacement continue to kill thousands of innocent Darfurians every month.”

These awful armed men burn down villages of Darfur citizens. These awful men also raped multiple women. “A rape victim who was a teacher told Bashir: "They were shouting and screaming at us.” (Tran, Mark Pg. 2). “According to United to End Genocide, the conflict has claimed 300,000 lives...” (The Crisis in Darfur Pg. 2). The Janjaweed has even been polluting many of their water sources (Darfur Genocide Pg. 2). The Janjaweed has also produced a lengthy amount of people who have been displaced. The number of that many people is 2 million (Darfur Genocide Pg. 2). They have also have with no emotion destroyed the citizens of Darfur’s property. These emotionless men known as the Janjaweed gets supported by the Sudan government because of peace conflicts before the genocide. Which is terrible since Sudan claims they don’t even support the genocide. The definition of genocide is the deliberate extermination of a people or a nation. This is a deliberate mass killing of citizens in Darfur. This is a real

The local farmers formed two rebel groups known as the Justice and Equality Movement, and the Sudan Liberation Army. These two rebel armies were formed because, according to Makki Sala , the government in Khartoum was accused of favoring the Arabs and carrying out a systematic ethnic cleansing in Darfur . But these two rebel groups are not the only groups who are causing problems in Darfur; a group of bandits who rape, kill and steal are known as the Janjaweed this group is claimed as the main cause of the countless massacres that are occurring in the villages of Darfur . The Sudanese government has been accused of working with the Janjaweed to fight against the two rebel army groups. This is very unfortunate to hear because the government should never be involve with a group who massacre innocent people, the government should protect its people not exterminate them because they don’t agree with their policies. Although the horrific events of the holocaust occurred many years ago the after shock of it still remain in today’s society; ethnic groups are attacked, discriminated against, even exterminated in some cases, so the united states needs to step in like they did " in December 1941, the United states entered world war II on the side of the allied forces"(United states). The U.S helped stop the civil war that’s occurring in Darfur and help save the innocent women/men and children from

The “Darfur Genocide” is a mass slaughter and rape of men, women and children in the western portion of Sudan.

Next, the Sudanese government violates article #3 by supplying the Janjaweed military regime with military power and covering up military crimes. The government of Sudan has interfered with anyone who has tried to stop the Janjaweed regime. Along with this they have covered up or attempt to cover up the military investigation against the Janjaweed government. Since these acts of violence have been allowed to go on a total of 400,000 Darfurian innocent civilians have been killed, (“Facts on Darfur” NP).The United Nations along with the ICC are acting out against this, on March 4, 2009 had a warrant for the arrest of Sudan leader Omar al-Bashir.  Finally, the Darfur has violated the right to life of article #3 of the Universal Declaration of Human rights. The people of Darfur of unarmed and are up agianst a government backed military regime. This has caused much unrest for the people, and lives are being infringed upon. People are being slaughtered daily by a ruthless regime, without ever having a chance to live life.

By definition, genocide is “the deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, racial, political, or cultural group.” According to Eric Reeves, writer for the Sudan Tribune, genocide “encompasses not only the killing of members of a national, ethical, racial, or religious group, as such, but also deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or part.” Whatever genocide may be defined as, it is the most grotesque form of massacre known to man. Millions of people are killed daily by hate groups in league with government organizations much like the Nazis of Adolf Hitler’s Germany in the 1930s and 1940s.

The origin of the war between these two regions goes back to the 1950s when the country, which was previously two separate nations, was made one after World War II by the west. Shortly after this union, Sudan was emancipated from England. 1983 marks the beginning of the violent relations between the North and South Sudan. The initiation of this conflict was brought forth by the Islamic Sudanese of the North, invading with military force the Southern Sudanese Christians . From 1983, it is estimated that at least two million people have been killed in the violent duration of this genocide, most of whom are of the Christian faith and lead non-violent civilian lives. Attention on human trafficking was brought into the international community’s scope with close proximity to the beginning of the violence as two professors from the University of Khartoum shed light on the subject. Ushari Ahmad Mahumud and Suleyman Ali Baldo learned about the genocide and enslavement being practiced on the Dinka people, a tribal group in the southern Sudan, and upon this discovery they dicided to investigate it further. What they found was that raiders from the north were killing the Southern Christian men and kidnapping the women and children to be sold into slavery. The most disturbing part of this discovery was the newfound knowledge that this had been going on for over two years. Professors Mahumud and Baldo

The United Nations has described it as "the world's worst humanitarian crisis". As of 2003, the Darfur genocide is being carried out by the Sudanese armed forces and funded Arab militias known as the Janjaweed. These militias are historic rivals of the rebel groups known as the Sudanese Liberation Movement (SLM), and the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM). Darfur is a region in western Sudan on the border of Chad, Libya, and the Central African Republic. Darfur is estimated to have about 6 million people living there. The conflict started in 2003 and has continued through today. The Janjaweed were accused of oppressing Darfur's non-Arab population. The Janjaweed are destroying Darfurians by burning villages, polluting water, murdering, raping

During World War Two the Jewish people were being “exterminated” by their fellow neighbors, own government and even their own loyal worshipers. They were not even being attacked for a valid reason, this was all set into motion by the beliefs of Adolf Hitler, German Dictator. Hitler held beliefs known as anti-semitism, he was not the first person to hate the Jewish people as a whole, but he was the first person to establish an entire army and country against them. Many of the Jewish people began to flee the country, in hope to escape the genocide. This task became extremely difficult when neighboring countries realized why they were fleeing. The refugees were denied access into the United States and Cuba, but later were taken in by very few countries in Europe and in the surrounding areas .

The genocide is being carried out by a group of Arab militias known as the Janjaweed. Started by Musa Hilal in 1987 and still active today, the group operates mainly in Southern Sudan. They believe that Sudan needs an ethnic cleansing. The Janjaweed group attacks Darfur villages by Air Force bombings and militia raids. They loot, destroy water and food supplies, continue on to slaughter Darfuri people

Extermination, the crux of every genocide, occurs in Darfur with government raiding in the air and government-supported Janjaweed attacking on the ground. These attacks aimed at exterminating African villages have killed an estimated 400,000 people and displaced millions.

The government of Sudan, a country in Northeast Africa, is committing a horrendous crime against humanity. Genocide is raging on in Western Sudan against poor, helpless, innocent people. It is actually the ten year “anniversary” since the beginning of the Darfur conflict and the genocide still continues on. There are over 1.4 million people who still do not have homes to come back to, and the numbers stack higher every day. Bombings have not stopped, as there was one as recent as February 2013. The Darfur conflict in the beginning was just a brewing disaster and it eventually led to the horrendous genocides in the early 2000s due to early settlement disputes, climate change, and radical Islamic

According to Amnesty International (2012), “throughout Sudan, the government routinely represses human rights defenders, political opponents, and ordinary civilians subjecting many to torture and other forms of ill-treatment.” Since the Darfur conflict erupted in February 2003, systematic human rights abuses have occurred. These abuses include killing, torture, rape, looting and destroying property. All parties have been involved, but these abuses have mostly been committed by the Sudanese government and government-backed Janjawid militia. These attacks have led to the death of hundreds of thousands of people in Darfur, with an estimated two million internally displaced people and another 250,000 refugees