Janjaweed: Genocide In Sudan

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).

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

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

2003 marked the beginning of the Darfur Genocide. It has consisted of some of the most appalling treatment and murder of the innocent citizens of Darfur. It also quickly became clear why the government never stepped in. A group known as the Janjaweed, which ironically enough translates to ‘devils on horseback,’ has been at the head of the genocide. They are armed and funded by the government. Their disturbing actions consist of destroy the people by burning villages, looting money, polluting water, and worst of all, the murdering, raping, and torturing of men, woman, and children. It continues there today.

Next, the Sudanese government violates article #3 by supplying the Janjaweed military regime with military power and covering up military crimes. The government of Sudan has interfered with anyone who has tried to stop the Janjaweed regime. Along with this they have covered up or attempt to cover up the military investigation against the Janjaweed government. Since these acts of violence have been allowed to go on a total of 400,000 Darfurian innocent civilians have been killed, (“Facts on Darfur” NP).The United Nations along with the ICC are acting out against this, on March 4, 2009 had a warrant for the arrest of Sudan leader Omar al-Bashir.  Finally, the Darfur has violated the right to life of article #3 of the Universal Declaration of Human rights. The people of Darfur of unarmed and are up agianst a government backed military regime. This has caused much unrest for the people, and lives are being infringed upon. People are being slaughtered daily by a ruthless regime, without ever having a chance to live life.

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

This genocide has gone on for too long and too many innocent civilians have been killed or their villages burned. The United States needs to act, stop the Khartoum government, and free the Darfuri people. “The past is future for Darfur, and that is unspeakably cruel”

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 global powers failed to step in quickly and took so long that a mister Eric Reeves had time to write an article called The World’s Abandonment of Darfur in which he writes “The United States, Britain and France need to muscle up politically in the Security Council now or the fate of Darfur will be dictated by the very men who began the genocide 12 years ago. This would be unprecedented in the grim history of genocide” (Reeves). Clearly, the global superpowers need to step up their game in the international community to help stop things like this from happening in the future. If these countries could not even prevent the same tragic events from happening back to back, that is terrible. Granted, the restructuring of a state can be a long and difficult project to undertake, just look at the Middle East and the United States’ involvement, but it is necessary to make sure that the same people, or any people at all, are incriminated and tortured like those living in the Darfur region were. The global heavyweights, at least, need to intervene in any restructuring post-genocide to ensure that the county does not fall back into a state in which mass killings are taking

Darfur is a region in western Sudan with diverse ethnic groups (11 Facts About Darfur). Here is a map of Darfur, http://www.worldatlas.com/img/areamap/0e09591d0cca13e9d33e4250f1a94702.gif. Darfur has a harsh weather environment with temperatures usually over 100 degrees (Geography). Darfur is a poor and undeveloped state. It is known for its genocide because of the mass slaughter and rape of men, women, and children. The genocide is racially based, and executed through The Janjaweed (11 Facts About Darfur). The Janjaweed are armed Arab militias supported through the government, and are to attack non-Arabs (The Basic Facts about Darfur). The killings began in February of 2003, and still happen today (The Basic Facts about Darfur). The Janjaweed

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

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