Darfur Video Analysis

In the documentary On Our Watch PBS takes us to southern Africa. In the state of Darfur, there were air raids that would start at the brink of dawn and end in the middle of the day, after the air raids there would be troops on foot that would raid the villages and rape the women, they would also kill the men and cut off the young boy's genitals so they can bleed out and their mothers would watch their sons die in their arms. Just from that I think we should intervene and put an end to the rape, murder, and terror. On a viewer's standpoint, this totally changed my personal opinion on affairs overseas. To begin I would like to talk about the Darfur Government and how the wanted help from the UN and declined it when there was an opportunity

‘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.

In the Darfur Genocide over four million people were displaced and over two million people were killed. It may not seem like a lot of people were killed but if you think about how many people of the same race were killed then it might change your mind. People who live in

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 Darfur crisis was a horrific event because of the savage treatment of civilians that led to an immense number of civilian casualties. As of today, over four hundred and eighty thousand people have been killed, and over two point eight million people are displaced. (World Without Genocide, Worldwithoutgenocide.org). Women and children were forced to endure a systematic program of sexual assault, torture, and murder. The central government of Sudan, working largely through nomadic Arab militias, humiliates women, and tears apart families and shreds the social fabric of communities through rape. (Smart Library on Globalization, clg.portalxm.com). It is clear from these sources that the innocent civilian deaths tore apart families. After villages are attacked parents and children have had to run away from the

Furthermore, the region of Darfur is about the size of Texas. Its enormity is one of the sources of the current conflict because most of Darfur is not easily accessible. Traveling in and out of the secluded areas is very tough. There are an unfortunately small amount of all-weather roads. The attackers can travel the terrain much more easily, making it even more difficult for the villagers. The isolated areas make it hard for journalists and humanitarian workers to learn about the activity in the region. This makes it also not easy to gauge the actual number of people affected by the desolation of famine and warfare.

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 Darfur Genocide started on February 26, 2003. This genocide is still continuing till this day. Darfur Genocide is the mass slaughter of Darfuri men, women, and children in Sudan. This is happening because of the oppression of Darfur’s non-Arab population.. The people started to revolt and wanted the government to stop the oppressing of the non–Arab population. The government did not listen and got violent with the people. When the Sudan Liberation Army (SLA) and the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) started to attack the government, the government responded with there own attack. The Sudanese government decided to use the Janjaweed a Sudanese military group to attack the non–Arab population. Now because of the Janjaweed millions of people

The people in the United States (U.S.) think there is nothing wrong in other countries, but we are wrong. Our government help us, but the government in Syria and Darfur turned a blind eye to the violence that is happening to their people. The U.S. have a high level of security to protect us from any attacks from our enemies, but not Syria and Darfur. While Darfur women and girls are being raped by soldiers, the men and boys are beaten and executed. Families also fled their homes to the edge of other countries near Darfur for safety. In Syria, President Bashar al-Assad, have soldiers in helicopters, tanks and on the ground to attack the protesters. They tortured and executed children on spot right in front of their parents. Mass bloodshed,

Second, create an emotional response in the audience towards the people of Darfur; for the most part, they want the audience to sympathize with the people. Next, the filmmaker wants to inspire ways of action, even a common citizen can participate in. These could include writing to political leaders, attending rallies or protests, spreading the word with their social groups, etc.; basically, a way to pressure the government to get involved. Mainly, the goal is to influence governments and their agencies to intervene in the Darfur genocide and to stop further suffering. To accomplish these goals, Sundeburg and her team had to use multiple persuasion techniques throughout the film.

Back in 2012, an online video about crimes most Americans hadn't heard of, committed by a man they didn't know, in a country few could place on a map, became the world's biggest viral sensation.

The song form of communication does not communicate the image of darfur as it should. listening to the song is hard to understand. The song is very high pitched and the singer does not pronounce the words clearly. One has to read the lyrics to understand what the singer is saying. The lyrics also do not make a lot of sense. once again, the listener would have to have a good idea of what is happening in darfur to understand this song. Also this song is a very pretty and calming song. it doesn't show the suffrage and pain that is happening to the people of darfur.

Our news media is as celebrity-obsessed as the rest of the nation. And why shouldn't it be? The articles and television news coverage of celebrities is going to sell a lot more magazines and draw in a lot more viewers than something depressing and/or hard to understand like a genocide. Let's face it, when people come home from a long, hard day at work, they want to be entertained, not forced to think of the bad things happening in the world. Plus, thanks to a sub-par educational system in the United States that "teaches to the test" and lets important subjects such as geography and social sciences fall by the wayside, many people don't even know where these places are that are experiencing humanitarian crises. They can't be expected to be interested in places of which they have never heard. This, at least, is the common perception among the media today.

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