Genocide In Darfur

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

People have ignored the cries of the weak, innocent, and forgotten for too long. We have a civil and moral duty to not let these cries go unheard. Who are we, if not the peacekeepers of the world? What are we, if not a body of nations, working

Cambodia, my small country bordering Thailand, has recently descended into a grisly crisis of outright genocide of innocent citizens, my innocent neighbors. This genocide is very different from any other genocide because it isn't driven by racial or religious reasons, but by poisonous ideology, the ideology of my own neighbors. As of today a little less than a million Cambodians have died either from starvation, torture, disease, execution, and even exhaustion from hard labor carried out by their own families, by my own neighbors.

In today’s world, it is of the utmost importance to learn from mistakes of the past. Certain events, especially tragedies that could have been avoided, hold within them the lessons and wisdom that should be used to prevent similar disasters. The 1994 Rwandan genocide resulted in over 800, 000 deaths of the Tutsi people, at the hands of the Hutu; the genocide, and the international response to it, is a lesson about the humanitarian responsibilities, successes, and shortcomings of the United Nations.

References’ to the United Nations and the “international Year of Tolerance” give added authority to what is being said. It provides an international context for the issues being raised and greater sense of urgency for what is being advocated, Aung San also effectively uses her “own experience” in campaigning for human rights and power sharing in Burma, to “emphasize the positive aspect of tolerance.” The speaker establishes her purpose in the opening paragraph, “ I want to try and vice some of the common hopes which firmly unite us in all our splendid diversity.” This is reference to “common

INTRODUCTION After the atrocities suffered by the Jewish people at the hand of the Nazi regime, the United Nations formed the U.N. Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (UNCG), dedicated to the understanding and prevention of future genocides. The UNCG defines genocide as acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group. Genocides have occurred on almost every continent and the UNCG has had little impact on prevention. Indeed, 2since its creation in 1951 the world has seen a rise in genocides beginning in 1975 in Cambodia, followed by the horrors in Yugoslavia in 1992, then Rwanda in 1994, and the on-again-off-again atrocities in Darfur since 2003 (Maddox). The causes of each of these genocides are as unique as the topography of the land they occur on and as varied as the languages and cultures of the people involved. The genocide occurred in Rwanda in Central Africa between April 6, 1994 and July 1994. The decades of unjust treatment by Belgium favored the Tutsi tribe and the assassinations of the Rwandan president and Burundi president led to the genocide in Rwanda. CAUSES

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We have seen that the key question to understand the conflict in Rwanda is to remember that both Hutus and Tutsis are political identities imposed by the state. During 1994 some were killed because they 'looked like Tutsis' and others killed because 'they thought they would probably be Hutus'. Conflicts such as those in Rwanda, which result from the weakening of state power, which is responsible for preserving laws and guaranteeing justice, occur in the midst of failed states. This situation is the perfect incubator of generalized internal violence, both prior to conflicts and during and after them. It is in events like these where international humanitarian law plays a preponderant role. However, there are no safe ways to

More than 620,000 Rohingya fled the Rakhine state and took refuge in Bangladesh after numerous atrocities. Arson, rape, war crimes, and genocide are among notable accusations being thrown at Myanmar’s military. According to Pramila Patten, a United Nations convoy, sexual violence was used to remove the Rohingya people from Myanmar.

The leaders include the president of Burma, Thein Sein, and a famous politician of the country, Aung San Suu Kyi. The two groups comprise of the Sangha, which is a community of Buddhist monks, and the Rakhine Nationalities Development Group (RNDG), which is a political party in Myanmar. In 1991, Aung San Suu Kyi won the Nobel Peace Prize for forming the National League for Democracy and coincidently disapproved of violence and hoped that all ethnic groups could “cooperate in harmony.” Since then, she has denied any evidence of an ethnic cleansing, when asked about it in an interview and she has talked about the Rohingya Muslims, stating that “They are not our citizens.” The president, Thein Sein, has done many things to contribute to the ethnic cleansing. He has come up with ideas to end the ethnic cleansing, such as “expelling” the muslims from the country or getting the United Nations to “resettle” them somewhere else.

The United Nations High Commission on Refugees (UNHCR) estimates that 250,000 IDP’s are displaced because of the conflict in South Sudan. Lizabeth Paulat, a member of Truthout, a think tank, writes that the violence is directly causing a potentially massive famine within the region. “This threat of starvation is not occurring because of a natural scarcity, or even a political attempt to starve out opponents,” says Paulat, “rather, this is an issue of South Sudan’s internal refugees, forced to flee their homes to escape violence.” With such a high volume of IDP’s and a projected record breaking famine, the international community must intervene to assist President Kiir and the South Sudanese Government.

The tarnished status of the Rohingya — a cause of their dehumanization — has allowed for military troops to carry out unbridled, vicious acts against the stateless ethnic group. Because the Rohingya are viewed as a disgraced people, they have been left without an

Myanmar, better known to the rest of the world as Burma, is a basic country arranged in Southeast Asia. It was at one time a prosperous country and now is one of the poorest countries on the planet today. As showed by Thadithil, this is an ordered history of the events: "In 1886, Burma transformed into a district of English India. 1936, Burma separates from India. 1942, Japan invaded Burma. 1945, the Anti-Fascist Freedom League, drove by Aung San, deceives Japan, and helps allies reoccupy Burma. 1947, the Burmese won their freedom, Aung San wins the fundamental race yet was murdered during a meeting of the Executive Council (Maung). 1948, U Nu ends up being the Prime Minister. 1976, Ethnic freedom groups continue to revolt and finally

Nevertheless, the Burmese act like that nothing evil had never happened. They do awful acts that are against humanity to the Rohingya minority but they would be swallowed up by the passage of time. They would not need a permanent note to remind themselves what has happened at all. Above all, the Rohingya are facing genocide and it is the most pressing issue that deserves attention from the international community. The reason being it is ethnic cleansing that result the Rohingya to be stateless, and beings with no worth. What could be done to address the issue is first to provide humanitarian assistance to the Rohingya minority, secondly the United Nations to make a reconciliation committee for Myanmar to help deal with what happens in the

Burma’s pre-colonial period was similarly afflicted with complex ethnic and religious barriers to peace; marking Buddhists a significant massacre in 1942 where the actions of genocide against Muslims, recorded up to 50,000 deaths. Until January 1948 Myanmar was governed by British colonial rule and declared its independence, thus sparking major internal debates to the political future for Burma as the British rule embedded a deep distrust of foreigners to uphold Burman