News Media and the Coverage of Darfur

‘The war in Darfur” is an armed conflict in the Sudan Darfur region that began in 2003 and is still ongoing, and in 2005 it was later declared as a civil war against Chad and Central African Republic.

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 Darfur Genocide is considered one of the most gruesome and gory genocides to take place in recent years. Darfur is a western civilization roughly the size of Spain located in the country of Sudan which is situated in Africa. Sudan has had a rough history over the past fifty years. In fact violence has become more of a norm in the area.

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.

When you hear the term “genocide,” the Holocaust or maybe even the Native American Genocide might come to mind. What you probably didn’t know is that there is still a mass murdering going on today. These killings are known as the Darfur Genocide, which is part of the Sudan Civil War. This massacre began in 2003 and still continues to this day. This is carried out by Arab Militias known as the Janjaweed. My goal in this paper is to inform you of the historical significance of this event and explain to you what the Sudan Civil War is all about.

There are many worldwide conflicts that occurred throughout history that made a negative impact on the world, but there’s one of these conflicts that stood out from the rest, and still remains present in today’s society. This conflict is called a genocide; the deliberate and systematic extermination of a nation, racial, political or cultural group ( United States ). According to the united sates holocaust memorial museum the term genocide didn’t really come about until 1944.

Chris: There is strong worldwide consensus that the Darfur killings has been one of the most tragic human rights violations of the decade, but its status as a genocide has been debated. Many worldwide authorities have acknowledged the killings as genocide, the first of the twenty-first century. In a unanimous vote, the United States Congress declared the Darfur war as state-sponsored genocide. Some have suggested that the heinous Darfur killings are even worse than genocide. The United Nations and a number of other international organizations, however, have refrained from calling the killings a genocide, saying that they are unsure of the “genocidal intent” of the perpetrators. To determine whether the Darfur War is truly genocide, we return

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

Genocide in Darfur began in 2003 and is still happening present day. Genocide began because non-Arabs in the western Sudan region believed that the government was ignoring them. In order to get the governments attention non-Arabs started to vandalize government buildings, the government responded by creating an Arab militia. The effects of the militia have been devastating. They have destroyed villages and murdered an extreme amount of people. In total, hundreds of thousands have been killed and two million people have been displaced. All peacekeeping efforts have been shown to be unsuccessful; and every month it is estimated that 5,000 people die as a result of the ongoing genocide.

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.

The term "genocide" did not exist before 1944. It is a very specific term, referring to violent crimes committed against groups with the intent to destroy the existence of the group (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum). In 1944, a Polish-Jewish lawyer named Raphael Lemkin (1900-1959) sought to describe Nazi policies of systematic murder, including the destruction of the European Jews. He formed the word "genocide" by combining geno-, from the Greek word for race or tribe, with -cide, derived from the Latin word for killing (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum). Genocide is killing members of the group, causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group. Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated

Many horrific incidents have happened on this earth that has changed the world forever. These incidents are better reformed as genocides. Genocides can happen usually at any time and can last a couple years or more. The Darfur genocide is one of the most worst and horrific genocides that has happened on this earth. It involved many deaths and destruction to the

Under the topic of Darfur, communicating through poetry, photography, music, and video has some advantages and some disadvantages. Some forms of communication are harder to understand than others, and this can be a problem. Some forms of communication can add music to make it sadder or happier, or change the color of the picture to make it mean something more. But sometimes the meaning of the picture, video, etc. can be misinterpreted. Video gives the best understanding of what is happening. video can show what people are doing and what they think, and make it more dramatic than any other form of communication

Many situations and acts that are unacceptable need a stressor. Stressors are situations and/or events that lead to a catastrophic outcome, such as the Rwanda genocide. The tension between both the Hutu and Tutsi already existed; it only needed something to reach its breaking point – a stressor. On April 6, 1994, the plane that occupied Juvenal Habyarimana, President of Rwanda, and Cyprien Ntaryamina, President of Burundi crashed due to unexplained circumstances. Over the next three months in Rwanda after the crash carrying both Presidents, mass killings began to occur. The kill count escaladed dramatically leaving one million Rwandans dead and two million seeking refugee status among its neighbors: Zaire, Tanzania, and Burundi (Kellow and