African Leaders Established The Organisation Of African Africa

As a response to the crisis in Darfur in 30th July 2004, the United Nations and the Security Council assigned

The analysis of the genocides that took place both in Rwanda and Sudan’s Darfur region exhibit some similarities as well as differences. The character of violence was similar in both cases, but in Rwanda the violence was more intense, participatory, and extraordinary. The violence in these two places took place in an environment that had experienced civil wars. It was a period of political transition which was further aggravated by ethnic nationalism and a conflict of ethnic populations that were living in close proximity. However, in the Rwandan genocide, the state is more centralized, compact, and effective. This is what explains the intensity and variation. The international response to these genocides through observers emphasized on

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

After these two genocides, one may look at the past and ask, how could this death and destruction possibly happen again? The bad part is that it is happening again in the Darfur region of Sudan. This region is “about the size of Texas” (DarfurScores, par. 1) and “five thousand die every month”

This genocide has gone on for too long and too many innocent civilians have been killed or their villages burned. The United States needs to act, stop the Khartoum government, and free the Darfuri people. “The past is future for Darfur, and that is unspeakably cruel”

The Darfur genocide was the first genocide in the twentieth century and it is also the first genocide to be declared genocide. Sadly the Darfur genocide still remains and millions of people are still being affected as of today. Roughly around 400,000 innocent lives were lost. (Society in Darfur, Chiff.com) In the year 2011 more than 500,000 Sudanese civilians were being driven out of their homes by the government’s harsh actions and decisions and this number is still rising. (It’s in my blood, stopgenocide.org.) Many of their homes and villages were burned to nothing bust ashes by the Janjaweed. In the year 2008 the United Nations created a “hybrid” United Nation and African Union mission known as UNAMID. They had planned to send over 26,000 troops to help defend the citizens with force if necessary. But they only sent around 9,000 troops so far and they also lack the proper equipment (Sudan Protest, guardianlv.com). The United Nations have stationed many refugee camps. Many people run away from their village to get to the refugee camps and get the protection they need. Many associations are making an honest effort to help send supplies to Sudan. So far around 6.1 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance as of 2014. And the response by the several of humanitarian groups has been amazing. They have raised 6 million dollars’ worth of donations and was sent to Sudan last year in 2013. The Relief International group stationed many health outposts throughout

The war in Darfur materialized at the wrong time for the United States, Norway, and Britain, two of which are permanent members of the U.N. Security Council. At the time, they were focused on ensuring the success of the Naivasha negotiations in Sudan. The Naivasha agreement, also known as the Comprehensive Peace Agreement was an permanent ceasefire agreement between the Government of Sudan and the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement/ Sudan People’s Liberation Army to end the Second Sudanese Civil War. This was long time coming because the conflict had started all the way back in 1983. The Security Council used the ‘Brahimi principal,’ which states “regional organizations take primary responsibility for the problems in their backyard” to push responsibility on to the A.U. The Brahimi principle The Security Council was glad to give someone else the responsibility of Darfur so they could focus on others tasks at hand.

The video “On our Watch,” provides the viewer with detailed accounts about the first genocide of the 21st century. The images of death and destruction in Darfur, coupled with the startling murder and rape statistics, clearly suggests that the United Nations (UN), an organization designed to maintain international peace and security failed to protect the people of Darfur from the Janjaweed militias or the corrupt Sudanese government. Although, the UN and the world had embraced the slogan “Never Again,” after 800,000 innocent civilians were slaughtered in Rwanda, history would repeat itself in Bosnia, Darfur, and Chad. Sudan’s campaign of genocide, its economic and political ties with China and Russia, combined with failed peace talks, as well

The definition of genocide must of recently changed without many individuals being aware, unless the current ongoing pertinent issue did not want to be addressed in the twenty-first century. In the largest country in Africa, it is unimaginable that a genocide conducted by their government continues while the rest of the world does nothing. The largest country in Africa is Sudan, which is located on the northeastern side of Africa. The western region of Sudan is the primary focus, Darfur. This region of Sudan has experienced for years a consistent war that overtime has become forgotten. In the twenty-first century, it is difficult to realize that an actual genocide is happening. The individuals in this region are experiencing a harsh and difficult life that begin in the year of 2003.

Even though these groups agreed to the ceasefire, there was still violence going on in Darfur. In August 2004, 7,000 Rwandan and Nigerien peacekeeping troops are sent by the African Union Mission in Sudan (AMIS) to work in Darfur. Around 2 million civilians were displaced in Darfur and Chad by the end of 2004, around 100,000 were dead. On September 9, 2004, the conflict in Darfur was declared a Genocide. Some of the other countries involved blame the Sudanese government because they have done nothing to help the citizens of Darfur, but the UN doesn’t agree. On January 9, 2005, the Sudanese government and the SPLM/A sign the Comprehensive Peace Agreement and the Second Sudanese Civil War ends. In March 2005, the people who violated the ceasefire in Darfur have sanctions authorized against them by the UN Security Council. There were also people accused of war crimes. These people are referred to the International Criminal Court (ICC). In June, a formal investigation is begun, but the Sudanese government chose not to

The Janyaweed that took over were armed militia supported by the Sudanese government to carry out the genocide(2). The Janyaweed entered many villages on horses and destroyed many houses and buildings(2). They shoot many men, gang raped the woman and children, and shoot everybody that tried to escape from them(2). The Janyaweed ensured mass destruction and burned building down, and poisoned water wells to kill off some of people. While this genocide has been going on it has forced thousands of people mostly farmers and villagers from Non- Arab groups to flee their homes(2). The people that managed to escape they have to take a long journey to displaced person camps. The people that have been fueling the genocide with armed weapons has been the Chinese and Russians that have broke many human right violations. The government is not agreeing to the Arms Trade Treaty so until they agree they will continue to bring in weapons and millions of people will suffer the consequences(3). This will later affect the countries of China and Russia because they are bringing weapons in. Even though the government will not help with anything there has been people that have escaped.

According to the U.S State Department, by August 2004 at least 400 villages in Darfur had been destroyed, other estimates are much higher as 20,000 refugees had crossed into eastern Chad and some 1.2million internally displaced persons‘‘ (IDP) remained in the western Sudan. In this case women and girls were picked off and raped or murdered by the janjaweed militias (Ibid, 2010:284). By February 2004,as many as 2.5 million people were living in squalid camps in Darfur, without clean water or adequate sanitation, surrounded by janjaweed and Sudanese soldiers. Furthermore, the UNEP report (2007) shows that less than 20 percent of the Darfur population was using improved sanitary facilities. Thus, even though, the existence of dereferences in terms

Africa is the second largest continent in the world in terms of area and population after Asia. Because of European colonialism, the exploitation of its resources, the practice of apartheid and the policy of prejudice, the Organization of the African Union was established and linked to all African countries. The concept of the African Union is a special organization to resolve all African problems, issues and crises. The African Union consists of 30 countries, established in 1936. In 1980, the membership rose to 53. The Organization of African Unity has been named .The headquarters of the Organization of African Unity (OAU) is located in Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia So that the African continent can take international decisions and the elimination of political, economic, technical and cultural problems. New African States have the right to organize for the Organization, but subject to the approval of members, upon the withdrawal of any State from the Organization, the request for

On September 18th, 2004, the U.N. Security Council passed Resolution 1564, which authorized an International Commission of Inquiry of Darfur (ICID). The objective of this inquiry was to “investigate human right violations and determine whether genocide had occurred in Darfur.”

From 1972 onwards, the government “usually ran Darfur through officials brought in from other parts of Sudan, mainly from Khartoum” (Darfur: Origins). What Britain did basically doomed Non-Arab Darfur to “a future as an underdeveloped colony of Sudan’s Arab-speaking Nile Valley heartland” (Darfur: Origins).