Transcript The Darfur Genocide

The Darfur
Genocide
By: Justin Conkling, Nate Prince,
Greg Kutzin, Fioren Hasanpapaj
What can the U.S Do?
• The U.S. government needs to become involved in the
current genocide happening in
• Darfur, we need to protect innocent civilians and make
right what we didn’t do in Rwanda in 1994.
• If the U.S citizens were the victims of genocide, We
would need help from other nations to stop a tragedy of
that magnitude.
• The citizens of Darfur should be no different and are
humans who need help, the color of their skin shouldn’t
matter, innocent citizens should always be protected.
• In a time of need other countries would come to the
United States rescue, this is no different and should
come to Sudan’s Protection.
• Firstly, Informing yourself about the problem in Sudan is the
most Important thing for you to do. Getting all the facts and
information straight will help you understand the problem and
its history.
• Writing to your local newspaper will be helpful to request
articles relating to Sudan so the attention can be spread
across your town or community and hopefully will become
widespread more and more.
• Raising awareness around your community by speaking about
the situation and have friends view a video pertaining to the
genocide called “Darfur Destroyed” this is a graphic depiction
of what is actually happening.
• Writing to U.N council members, writing to the U.N security
council, the Sudanese government, and contacting a elected
official in your local area, addresses can be founded on the
internet.
• In Darfur the crisis is a very serious matter, an estimated
5,000 civilians die every month.
• This is two and a half years into the crisis and nobody has still
taken action to send troops and take military action to stop
this atrocity. Peacekeeping forces have been sent but need to
take a year to arrive and peacekeepers cannot take military
action, so the action they can take is limited.
• The total mortality rate as of now is between 600,000-800,00
people dead.
• More than 3-4 million citizens needing food and medical
assistance, and the mortality rate is said to increase, so help
in that region is needed right away.
• The conflict is mainly between the two groups the Janjaweed
and the African Sudanese , The Janjaweed is killing the local
Africans as a ethnic cleansing, mostly racial motivated, and a
power struggle.
• The Sudanese government has there own rebel groups, but
the Arab Janjaweed militias have also fought the Local rebel
groups but during this period they have also attacked
civilians.
• The conflict initially began in early 2003 when local African
rebel groups broke out against The Sudanese government
claiming they were oppressed and Arabs were favored
• The government denies the ties to the Janjaweed saying they
have launched rebel groups of their own but they don’t’
acknowledge or try to help the situation of genocide
happening to the natives of the land.
• Janjaweed militias raid the homes, towns and villages
that the locals occupy, and most have fled for there
safety to camps for food and water.
• The Janjaweed patrol the camps looking to kill men and
rape the women If they move too far away from these
camps that try to give relief.
• Workers in the Darfur nation have gave estimates that
thousands upon thousands of locals are at risk for
starvation and diseases, and a million children are
threatened by malnutrition.
• Many civilians have gone to neighboring Chad who has
remained a policy of neutrality and has let the civilians
stay there.
• There is no straight answer to when this genocide in
Sudan will end, political and military action must
be taken in order for it to stop.
• The Sudanese government also needs to get
involved and stop the horrors happening to their
own civilians. Either to make a peace offering, or
stopping the rebel groups from killing.
• Sudan needs to release its own peacekeepers to
help the civilians, and the U.S peacekeepers need to
arrive as soon as possible.
• Everyone needs to do something write a letter to
the U.N, attend peace rallies, one is approaching in
Washington on April 30th.