Horrific Incidents: The Darfur Genocide

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

Did you know one out of twelve people died as a result of the Darfur genocide? The Darfur genocide was part of the ongoing Sudanese civil war in Darfur. The rebel sides are the Sudan Liberation Movement and the Justice Equality Movement. The Janjaweed, or Sudan’s government-funded military, retaliated against the rebellion by attacking and killing the civilians in Darfur. These practices went on long enough that it was considered a genocide. The Darfur crisis was one of the most tragic events in the last twenty years, and affected families in many ways including the brutal treatment of natives, moving to refugee camps, and the loss of home villages and possessions.

Genocide occurs in several nations and causes millions of lives to be lost. The slaughter of innocent men, women, and children continue daily, and will happen until the world and its people grow tired of the unnecessary loss of life and work to aid those in need. Darfurians are a prime example of what can happen when ones lives are not valued because of the difference in beliefs.

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 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

Ever since 2003 there’s been a mass torturing of Darfur civilians. This is known as the Darfur genocide. It is still going on today. It’s been going on for over 13 years. Many times the Darfur Genocide has been called the first genocide of the 21st century. Many people i’ve been seeing question if it’s truly genocide. I have to say that I think it’s no doubt genocide. I say this because genocide is the deliberate extermination of a people or nation. To say the least it’s very deliberate what the Janjaweed has been doing to the Darfur citizens. It’s terrible the many gruesome acts the Janjaweed has been doing in Darfur. The Janjaweed has been murdering people in Darfur. The Janjaweed has been also raping young women in their own villages. These

The Darfur conflict took the lives of many people. The government didn’t want to deal with what was happening in community so they turned the public against each other as an effort to get the people to blame it on something else, though the government thought that this will have happened anyway and denying all of their effort.

Sudan is a country in which had been affected with a history of civil wars, inhumane acts, and genocide. The Sudan Liberation Army (SLA) and Justice and Equality movement began to attack government targets in early 2003, accusing the president of Sudan, Khartoum of oppressing Non-Arabs. The government reacted with a campaign of ethnic cleansing. This resulted in over 400,000 deaths and hundreds of villages destroyed, wells were poisoned, live stocked was killed and millions of people sent to camps. The Janjaweed were forced by Sudan to attack their villages, the Janjaweed militias raided hundreds of villages throughout Darfur. Over 400 villages and ⅓ of Darfur’s people have fled. More than 100 people die everyday, five thousand people die every month. The Sudanese government denies any connection with the Janjaweed, because they are the ones who are responsible for such inhumane actions.

Lisa Parks discusses the use of satellite to represent conflicts throughout the world. With mass media we now have access to the world in our hands Parks brings awareness to the importance satellites imagery may have by allowing viewers to witness conflicts on a global scale. Parks further explains this by stating “I set out to show that high- resolution satellite images, initially designed for military intelligence purposes, could become useful to world citizens in their efforts to understand the complexities of world conflicts and political violence, and in some cases, to contest the claims of those in power and insist upon alternate interpretation” (245). Using satellites to show viewers around the world destruction that is occurring allows

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 term genocide means the mass murder of a specific race, tribe, or group of people with the intention of eliminating them as a whole. One genocide that is still going on today is the Genocide in Darfur. The murders started in 2003 in Southern Sudan, the largest country in Africa where thousands of Darfuri people have been massacred.

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.

Beginning on October 30th, 2014, over 221 women were raped under the command of the Sudanese government in a 36-hour period. The Human Rights Watch reported 27 first hand accounts of the event, including confessions made by two Sudanese soldiers, who admitted that the government was paying them to commit rape (Dias, Rayman). Events like this one have now become common in Darfur and surrounding regions as government-backed Janjaweed mercenaries systematically degrade, rape, and murder “non-Arabs”. The ongoing genocide in Darfur, Sudan, and the surrounding regions has evolved from the complex combination of environmental, social, and ethnic factors, and has been allowed by modern civilizations through economic benefits and flaws in political

In the words of Raphael Lemkin, the man who first created the word, “Genocide is not war! It is more dangerous than war!” (AZ Quotes). Genocide is “‘the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial, or religious group.’...a genocide need not be accomplished through mass murder to qualify as genocide” (Rieff 65). Not many people know the actual definition of genocide, in fact, most do not even know what a genocide is. They know that genocide is a word and they know that mass killing has happened throughout history, but they do not realize that the two are the same. The most well known genocide was the slaughtering of millions of Jews by Adolf Hitler in Germany, however, a few of the lesser known genocides occurred

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