Genocide In Sudan

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

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 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

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

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 .

As of March of 2008, a total of 300,000 people have died in Darfur, Sudan due to genocide. That is equivalent to the entire population of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The Genocide started back in February of 2003 in Darfur, Sudan. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights defines the liberties set for everyone in the World. Established in 1948, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights displays the rights and freedoms to which all humans are entitled to.  The situation in Darfur, Sudan is known as Genocide, Genocide is defined as a systematic extermination or attempt at exterminating a national, political, racial or cultural group. The Darfur Genocide has violated Article #3, Article #5 and Article #9 of the Universal Declaration of Human

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

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

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 killings present a complex situation caused by many factors, and thus, it often defies categorization. However, the Darfur war follows the general pattern of the eight stages of genocide and thus we believe it is genocide. This raises an important issue: what is the significance of calling a human rights violation a

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

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.

It is about fourteen years now since the outbreak of the bloody conflict in Darfur region, western part of the Republic of Sudan. The crisis in Darfur is not an unintentional tragedy, or a human devastation that humanitarian intercession can annul or solve. Darfur conflict is as not straightforward as presented in the media, which casts the clash in requisite ethnic conflicts between Arabs and black Africans. The veracity is far more messed up. It is a human being catastrophe that finally reinvented into a sadistic cycle of brutality in February, 2003.

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