Jeremi's 'Tomorrow I Will Leave'

After these two genocides, one may look at the past and ask, how could this death and destruction possibly happen again? The bad part is that it is happening again in the Darfur region of Sudan. This region is “about the size of Texas” (DarfurScores, par. 1) and “five thousand die every month”

Ever since the start of the civil war (December 2013) in South Sudan, tensions have been running high between two opposing groups. Those who support the President, Salva Kiir, and those who support his fired deputy, Rick Machar. This conflict has caused food shortages and disease for many people. The one thing the parties have in common is the brutal violence especially towards women. According to the article,

The conflict in Darfur refers to the fighting that is happening in the western region of Sudan known as Darfur. These fights have been taking place since 2003 and have continued to today. Similarities can be made to the Rwandan Genocide; there is a government funded and armed militia that is not officially supported by the government that is killing a local population. The citizens of the region of Darfur that are being killed are not Arabic, like the majority of the rest of Sudan is, however, they are more similar in culture and other aspects to the citizens of South Sudan, Sudan’s neighboring country to the south with which Sudan has had multiple wars with. Despite the fact that there is a militia that is killing citizens, there are also other militias that are fighting for the Darfuri people. These two sides have been fighting each other for close to ten years. Even though citizens of a certain group are being targeted by a militia, the conflict in Darfur is not a genocide. The United States should not get involved militarily in this conflict because it is only a conflict and not a genocide. It is a war between two groups over disputes between these groups. Instead, the United States should use diplomacy to help end the conflict happening in Darfur.

The civil war in Sudan has claimed millionsof lives and forced millions more from their

Well according to Freedom House , a website that accurately rates country’s human rights and freedom on a 1-7 scale, Sudan’s ratings are the worst possible. Their human rights is a 7/7, 1 is the best 7 is the worst, their civil liberties is 7, and their overall freedom is a 7. When your country is overall awful in human rights something needs to change. Freedom, political rights, and civil liberties are the difference between an underdeveloped and a developing country. Sudan, obviously, is underdeveloped. When Britain left Sudan, Sudan was lost. They had so many decisions to make and paths to choose. When a developed country has control of an underdeveloped country the developed country should at least try to help the underdeveloped country to become somewhat developed. Britain, the parent, left Sudan, their kid, on the side of the road and drove

Since the Rockefeller Drug Laws were passed in 1973 under Governor Nelson Rockefeller, New York State has had the harshest sentencing for low-level, non-violent drug offenders of any other state in the nation. Under these laws, those convicted of drug offenses face the same penalties as those convicted of murder, and harsher penalties that those convicted of rape. (Sullum, 1) Though the laws were first enacted to curb the late-1960s-early-1970s psychedelic drug epidemic, New York's drug problem in fact worsened in the 1980s with the use of stimulants, and thus the laws were reformed to be less lenient. These unforgiving laws, which place enormous minimum sentences for drug-sale convictions, prove to be ineffective and expensive and have

The Mexican Revolution was an attempt to overthrow a dictatorial tyrant, Porfirio Diaz that ruled the country of Mexico for decades. His autonomic attitude and self-centered beliefs eventually angered the people, although he successfully tried and failed to bring to life prosperity to the country as well as strengthen the ties with the United States.

If the UN was to interfere with the death of so many people, it would give the rest hope that one day they would not have to live in fear of the killing squads that were sent out to remove every last one of them. China and Russia were there trying to take control of the Sudanese government and give them a stronger foothold in that area. However, the UN was not ok with the Russians and Chinese being there so they sent several hundred troops over there, but the Russian and Chinese troops outnumbered the UN’s troops 100 to 1. The UN pulled its troops back so Russia and China were the two powers fighting for the control of Sudan. In August 2004, The UN sent in over 4,000 troops to try to take control of the capital city but they were met with Russian resistance. In a matters of days, they had taken the capital city and started tending to civilians of Sudan that were injured in all the fighting. In 2006, more than 3.5 million people needed food assistance. The Russians pulled out months later and China soon followed suit. Sudan was soon run by its own government thanks to the UN’s

This paper is an analysis of Langston Hughes’s book of collected poems and his life.  Langston Hughes was a well known, african american poet, novelist and playwright.  Hughes was born in 1902 and died in 1967.  He wrote many poems during his lifetime.  The most famous poem that he wrote is “The Negro Speaks of Rivers.”

Sudan has had internal problems for many years. The country negatively affected itself from within. No outer force caused the issues at hand. Sudan experiences their first civil war in 1956. The issue came from economic, political, and social domination of largely non-Muslim and non-Arab southern Sudanese. The war lasted for about sixteen years and finally concluded in 1972. Unfortunately the violence

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.

If Iraq does not comply with the U.N. and action is taken to disarm them, what will happen next? If force is taken against Saddam, more than likely he will be overthrown. Then Iraq will be leaderless, and the U.S. will have to step in to make sure all hell does not break loose. What might happen is kind of like the

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

These issues will not only affect the countries surrounding them, but they may also affect our nation’s economy and overall safety. Conflicts that were concerning to the United States include nuclear weapons in Iran, North Korea, and Syria, terrorism threat caused by the instability in Pakistan sparked by a "civil-military" crisis. The crisis within Pakistan confronted its issue with the United States because it could potentially draw in militant force. These dangerous movements within the world around us are not the only challenges that they face, their economies are slowly plummeting much like our own. Many countries faced economic deficits in 2008 causing it to be the marked as a global financial crisis. This crisis is considered to be worst than the Great Depression and other recessions because those were followed by an economic boom where goods and services are in high demand, in this case it did not

The U.S. must intervene in South Sudan, as it is an enduring interest within our National Security Strategy to maintain “An international order advanced by U.S. leadership that promotes peace, security, and opportunity.” General Rodriguez, commander of AFRICOM, should employ both diplomatic and economic instruments of power. By doing so, the U.S. risks a potentially long-term engagement in East Africa.