Darfur Crisis Research Paper

Past all of the different horrendous things recorded that have happened in Darfur the book The Translator is a first-hand story of a man named Daoud Hari, who is a Zaghawa tribesman. This book is an electrifying, torturous, and touching autobiography. Daoud Hari did a good job on presenting what all happened to the people in Sudan.

‘The war in Darfur” is an armed conflict in the Sudan Darfur region that began in 2003 and is still ongoing, and in 2005 it was later declared as a civil war against Chad and Central African Republic.

Refuge means shelter, “so a refugee is a person that seeks shelter, usually from war, natural disaster, or some other harmful situation.”("Refugee - Dictionary Definition.") Merriam Webster classifies ‘other’ as “different or separate from the person or thing that has already been mentioned.” (Merriam-Webster. Merriam-Webster) Therefore the word ‘othering’ is going to be similar, “the process of perceiving or portraying someone or something as fundamentally different or alien.” ("Wordnik.") The big question is how big of a deal can scarcity come to?

The citizens of Darfur were doing nothing wrong, they were minding their own business. The government begs to differ. The government wanted to use the land for oil exploration. They didn’t ask the Darfuri people to use their land, they just took over. Men, women and children were slaughtered and raped because they didn’t give up the land. The government “undertake to prevent and punish” (Raphael Lemkin pg1) which is the people of Darfur was a where of what was going on. They didn’t move their stuff they just stayed and fought in what they believed in. I believe many people would have just grabbed their valuables and taken their family and went somewhere else, but they didn’t want to do that because their neighbors were not leaving.

The Darfur Genocide is the current mass slaughter and rape of civilians from South Sudan killing women and children in Sudan. The Genocide began in 2003 but the outbreak around the world in early 2004 and still continues today which is known as the first genocide in the 21 Century. There have been many responses toward the genocide such as United Nations and China but the conflict continues to be unresolved. This had caught attention from many countries around the world, including our country, the united Nation and China had different perspectives referring to Sudan conflict, however their initiatives had worsen the situation.

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

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

Do you think its fair, which in 1933-1945; 11 million people lost their lives just because of their race and religion? Do you think its right, for other countries just to stand by and not care for the survival of the people in concentration camps in Germany and Poland? Even before the holocaust, people were killed due to racism and prejudice. As we look back on those days, we know how bad the Holocaust was. People were killed in many brutal ways such as shootings, gas, and being burned alive. It’s terrible to think of the horrors people faced in their final moments in the holocaust. Now let’s fast forward to today, a world where information can get to peoples fingers with in a second. How could this happen today with all the information

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.”

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 world is not a safe place. In our minds we know this, but in our hearts we like to believe we can change it. The world itself is complex, there are many good memories in life; the birth of a child, achieving a goal, and the feeling of victory. The world is also filled with plenty of bad memories; war, terrorism, and death. Most recently, in 2003, there was a genocide in Darfur, killing 300,000 people. Sense then there have been many more genocides and current ones happening today, history keeps repeating itself and innocent people continue to die. One thing that keeps people safe at night is knowing the bad guys, who fill us with these bad memories, are locked away (Holly). The government made the first prison in 1790 (Prison), since then

To begin with, the government of Darfur has drastically changed the country into a dystopian society with its actions, and Darfur’s government was not stopped. Darfur is in the middle of a lot of chaos, and the government is only adding to that by sending out the Janjaweed, a government led group who attacks, murders the Darfurians, and destroys their belongings. The government also bombs villages, kills or enslaves survivors of their attacks, taking or destroying food supplies, and polluting the water supply with the dead bodies. The dystopian concept in this society was the government’s attacks showed that they had full control over Darfur, and Sudan was to busy to help. “The first civil war ended in 1972 but broke out again in 1983. The

Some say it is in our human nature to have sympathy towards others. However does that sympathy extend to other beings beside us? According to the Kristof article, Save the Darfur Puppy, humans respond to the suffering of individuals rather than groups. He even goes to say, “Even the right animal evokes a similar sympathy,” (1, Kristof) and even argues that we have more sympathy for animals than we do humans who are suffering just as much.

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