Injustice In Darfur

The attacks affected the civilians living in the region, leaving as many as 300,000 dead and 2.8 million displaced (Darfur Conflict). Aicha el Basri, a former UN spokesperson, stated, “In one instance last September, peacekeepers "watched" the pro-government Janjaweed militia group carry out an assault on civilians travelling in a truck, but did not intervene (Darfur Conflict).” The UN hasn’t acted on the attacks occurring right in front of them. The civilians of Darfur feel the UN has betrayed them, by standing back and not protecting them. The UN organization, the African Union Mission In Darfur (UNAMID), has also failed to bring safety to the civilians. According to Ahmed H. Adam, “...UNAMID neither has a mandate nor the equipment for intervention, so even in the midst of conflict; it is unable to effectively respond (Adam).” The destruction of the population by their own government is the most recent failure of the UN, since the genocide in Darfur still continues

Not everybody believes in genocides, other may have a different opinion or thoughts. Sometimes people don’t realize its genocide because they believe in what they are doing and they think there is no harm done because it’s not affecting them. To be taken away from your family, to go live somewhere else or to be killed can have a huge impact on your life. Genocides play a huge role in the world; it has and will affect many people. In Darfur there is a genocide going on, it has been going on for a few decades now. Genocide is the mass killing of a race. The people of Darfur and the Government of Sudan didn’t really get along. The Government wanted to do oil exploration where the citizens lived. There was and still is a lot of tension between

The UN and the US government are accredited for deploring conflict situations as well as contributing humanitarian aid, and this is what these two organizations did in Rwanda and Darfur. However, the UN did not do anything to punish or prevent the genocides that took place in these two countries. The US government promised to support the peace talk’s agreement in Darfur and hold the perpetrators accountable for their acts. It never kept that promise since nothing has been done. So far, the UN’s Security Council has also failed in its peace keeping mission effeorts, and is instead pressuring Sudan with words only. No solid steps have been made to bring the wrong doers into justice (Shapiro).

Whether or not Darfur should be assisted due to the genocide occurring there is a highly debated subject, as you must know. However, I believe that the United States should stay out, because we need the resources, the assets we send over could be used against those in need, and despite it being horrible, it is not the worst thing going on in Africa. This issue has not caused everyone to go running to save them in the past, so why the sudden change?

Particularly, Darfur, a genocide beginning in 2003 and carrying on into present day. Darfur is a small region located in Western Sudan housing 6 million people and is approximately the size of Spain. This genocide is driven by the major conflict between Arab grazers and non-Arab farmers. Competition for resources is what played a hefty role in these conflicts arising. In Western Sudan, oil was discovered and the land in Darfur became increasingly known. Thousands of refugees have fled into neighboring republics. The Sudanese Air Force and Janjaweed, a government-supported Arab tribesman, raided and bombed non-Arab villages in Darfur bringing them to a burn as well as terrorizing and slaughtering the civilians with the goal of creating a Pan-Arab state. Women and children left in these villages were raped, and men were enslaved. Much like the Bosnian genocide, slaughtered bodies were thrown into wells to drain out their blood in an attempt to contaminate the drinking water. The government has forcefully expelled aid agencies jeopardizing the conditions of displaced civilians. Unlike Cambodia, the United States has not fell quiet about the Darfur genocide. In 2006, President Bush sent for a number of international troops in Darfur to be doubled. As a result, British Prime Minister called the European Union to team up with the United States as a unified response to the crisis at hand. Two years later, the United Nations issued a United Nations-African Union mission to maintain peace. Immediately following, 26,000 troops were ordered to protect civilians. According to the United Nations, 2.7 million people are internally displaced, 600,000 have been killed in 13 years, and more than 350,000 refugees have currently fled to neighboring cities. The Sudanese government trains and provides arms to Arab militias to continuously kill, terrorize, and destroy non-Arabs in Darfur

The Darfur Genocide refers to the endless deaths, rape cases, and abductions that the civilians of a village called “Darfur” have endured for the past 12 years. All of these horrendous cases have been on contempt of a ruthless militia called Janjaweed. This Arab group of soldiers is committing these treacherous crimes based off of the ludicrous ideology that the Arab race is unsurpassable, and supreme to the Darfurian race. The name, “Janjaweed” translates directly to the name “Horseman”, and justly so. This armed group literally invades Darfurian farmland on horseback. They slaughter the men, forcibly molest the women, and steal any possession they come into contact with. Still to this day, this group attacks Darfur. Over two million Darfurians

In 2003 there was a mass slaughter and and rape of the people in Darfur. This happened to so many people like men, women, and children. Many people suffered from the mass torturing. This is known as a genocide. The genocide has been going on for about 13 years and is still going on today. This genocide is the first genocide in the 21st century. The darfur genocide was gruesome. Since the Darfur bloodshed was gruesome and had people attacking, it led the United States and Court to believe it was considered a genocide. Darfur is a horrible time in history for so many people. The Janjaweed and the Sudanese forces attacked hundreds of villages in Darfur. The genocide is what caused so many people to suffer from the United States, court, crimes

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 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,

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

Congress adopted concurrent resolutions July 22 condemning the continuing atrocities in the Darfur region of western Sudan as "genocide" and asking the international community to join with the United States to help bring an end to the humanitarian catastrophe that is under way there.

At this point in the war, the Africans are powerless to stop the killings. They are outnumbered and do not have the resources to fight back by themselves, so they need a stronger power to step in. However, both the American government and the Sudanese government have failed to make any progress on ending the conflict. The Sudanese government are actually to blame for starting the genocide, and they even organized the militia that is responsible for the killings and the burning of villages. Since they created this war, they have failed to try and stop it, and seem to have no active plans to stop it. Any peacekeeping efforts were not followed through with. They have also denied help from other countries around the world, and have even denied that there was a war in Sudan. But the American government has also been ineffective in resolving the war. President Bush has acknowledged the situation in Darfur, but has not sent troops or supplies to Sudan. Showing the inadequacy of both governments is an important point to make to viewers so that they realize it is up to citizens to make a

The reading of Sudan, Darfur Rape as a Weapon of War; Sexual violence and its consequences, was interesting in reading about the stories of rape victims. Is tragedy how this tool is used to humiliate entry population by raping their women and girls. The ethnic cleansing in Sudan is greatest humanitarian crisis, I don’t know why the world isn’t doing anything (Sudan, Darfur Rape reading), The report talked about how they have the evidence of massive Human Rights violations and they know the government is behind this, however, the world is not doing anything about. The report stated they have talked to the victims of rape but the world has turned their blind eye about the problem. Rape as a weapon of war for so long in many countries around the

According to the U.S State Department, by August 2004 at least 400 villages in Darfur had been destroyed, other estimates are much higher as 20,000 refugees had crossed into eastern Chad and some 1.2million internally displaced persons‘‘ (IDP) remained in the western Sudan. In this case women and girls were picked off and raped or murdered by the janjaweed militias (Ibid, 2010:284). By February 2004,as many as 2.5 million people were living in squalid camps in Darfur, without clean water or adequate sanitation, surrounded by janjaweed and Sudanese soldiers. Furthermore, the UNEP report (2007) shows that less than 20 percent of the Darfur population was using improved sanitary facilities. Thus, even though, the existence of dereferences in terms

At the time of writing, the Syrian conflict has raged on for nearly half a decade, while that in Darfur for well over a decade. In both instances, some of the international community’s most experienced mediators attempted to halt the fighting. None, however, were able to bring more than a few days of respite to these violent conflicts.