Genocide+in+Darfur

This started in february of 2003. Two darfurian rebel groups launched an uprising against the government. The government sponsered Janjaweed militia have used rape, displacement, organized starvation, threats against aid workers and mass murder. Government neglect has left people through out Sudan poor and voiceless and has caused conflict throughout the country. The genocide has claimed 400,000 lives and displaced over 2,500,000 people. More than one hundred continue to die each day; five thousand die every month. Violence, disease, and displacement continue to kill thousands of innocent Darfurians every month.

The Sudanese government and the JEM signed a ceasefire agreement in Feb. 2010 with a tentative agreement to persue furhther peace.

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 * __My Four Articles__**

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** "The genocide in Darfur has claimed 400,000 lives and displaced over 2,500,000 people. More than one hundred people continue to die each day; five thousand die every month." ** ======

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Because the government has neglected the people all over Sudan, they have been left poor and voiceless and as a result, conflict across the entire country has erupted. In February 2003, angered by poverty and neglect, two Darfurian rebel groups launched an uprising against the Khartoum government, the government of Sudan. As a rebuttal, the government led a scorched-earth campaign, enlisting the help of a militia of Arab nomadic tribes in that Sudanese region against the innocent civilians of Darfur. ======

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** "Since February 2003, 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. ======

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A genocide unfolds again while the world watches. According to //The Nation,// a newspaper, "The failure of the United States and the international community to act in Rwanda a decade ago cost 800,000 lives." They go on to say,"Now, up to 1 million people face a similar fate in Darfur, western Sudan, as a result of an ongoing government campaign to destroy a portion of its population. The term invokes clear international obligations."

[] While the genocide is in its sixth year, conditions continue to worsen for civilians. Hundreds of thousands of people have died, even by the most conservative estimates. The United Nations estimates the death toll at roughly 300,000, while the former United Nations undersecretary-general estimates the number to be no less than 400,000. "Up to 2.5 million Darfuris have fled their homes and continue to live in camps throughout Darfur, or in refugee camps in neighboring Chad and the Central African Republic." Humanitarian assistance in Darfur continues to be at risk of failure, one reason being because of sustained harassment by the Sudanese government, and another reason being because of the government’s militia allies and common criminals.


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**The Save Darfur Coalition and Genocide Intervention Network made an announcement that starting Monday November 1, 2010, their organizations have joined together to create a more powerful voice dedicated to preventing and stopping large-scale, deliberate atrocities against civilians.** "The merger creates the largest anti-genocide organization that combined, boasts a membership base of over 800,000 committed activists globally, an unparalleled nationwide student movement, and a network of institutional investors with over $700 billion in assets under management." Although the genocide brought about disease, violence, displacement, and has claimed over millions of lives and still continues to do so today, is the government in any way or form justified in taking action agaisnt an uprising that it feared losing power from?
 * “Joining together the Save Darfur Coalition and Genocide Intervention Network creates one organization that is stronger than the sum of its parts and better positioned to make genocide prevention a priority for the U.S. government and international community,” said Dr. Antonios Kireopoulos, Chair of Save Darfur Coalition and of the merged Board of Directors. “This union combines an impressive network of supporters, activists, and partners that we feel confident will multiply the impact of our work.”**
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Immaculate Mutebi  __Genocide in Darfur__  __The government’s reason for genocide__ __Thesis __: Although the genocide brought about disease, violence, displacement, and has claimed over millions of lives and still continues to do so today, is the government in any way or form justified in taking action agaisnt an uprising that it feared losing power from? []  Main Idea: the reasons for government attack on darfurian civilians include racial tensions, as well as tensions over land from both the Arabs and darfurians. -the Arabs and the darfurians used to live together in peace, until the Khartoum government was involved and caused conflicts between both groups, such as fighting over land, and which group is more superior -race was and still is a big factor. Since the darfurian government consists of Arabs, especially Arabs who dislike the darfurians, race became the motivation behind the attacks based on racial epithets heard during attacks. The Janjaweed, which are Arab militias aiding the darfurian government in attacking the civilians, have a strong hatred for the civilians due to race. - “refugees reported hearing racial epithets 16.5% of the time when the Janjaweed attacked alone. They reported racial epithets 31.9% of the time when they were attacked by government forces alone. But, racial epithets were used 44.3% of the time when government and Janjaweed attacked together.” This provides evidence that the government intensified hostilities by making the conflict racial. __<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">CCQ’s __ <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> The darfurians held an uprising against the government because they were treated unfairly and were denied rights that they deserved. When they did so, the government was appalled and began the genocide, killing millions of civilians. It doesn’t make sense to me that the government was so surprised when the darfurians attacked. Was the government just expecting them to sit back while it mistreated them? __<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Summary __<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">: The government’s reason for attacking the Darfurians was not mainly because the Darfurians held an uprising. It was mainly because the government, composed of Arabs who strongly disliked the darfurians due to race, had for a long time conflicted with them. The Uprising was just the last straw. This relates to the thesis, in that the article shows that even though the government caused so much chaos and destruction and still continues to do so, could the government’s actions be justified because they wanted to establish themselves as a higher and should-be-respected authority, but feared that the uprising from darfurians whom the government viewed inferior due to race would take cause the government to lose power?