Jacky Sosa 2nd Block Darfur Genocide: Final Draft One million, one million living and breathing people like us, who are a part of this magnificent world, are tragically enduring the most horrendous, heart-breaking, and sadly, too familiar term people, just like us could ever imagine. Genocide, the systematic extermination of a national, ethnical, racial, or religiously group of people. The unfortunate victim this time? Darfur in West Sudan, Africa. "In recent years, the people of Darfur have been systematically attacked by the Sudanese army and by proxy-militia controlled by them as well.
Genocide in Darfur (Region of Sudan) The genocide in Darfur has changed the lives of everyone in Sudan. Discrimination has pushed people out of their homes and put distress on all involved. The United Nations and other groups try to send aid, but certain matters keep interfering. Darfur’s numerous tribes have led to conflicts with in the region, but since 2003 discrimination against the African farmers has occurred; leaving people starving and homeless and the United Nations trying to help. Generally the geography and the background of the people do have an affect on a country.
Sykes argues how the loss of freedom, heterosexual relationships, isolation and boredom leads inmates needing to engage in violence which is a reaction to the hurt they feel. Deindividuation may also account for a display of aggression. Removing an individual’s own clothes and replacing them with uniform plays a major part in depersonalising them. The removal of this individuality is more likely to dehumanise them. An example is in the Rwandan Genocide in which 800,000 Tutis were killed by Rwandan extremists.
2008 (April): The UN predict that 300,000 people have been killed in the five year Darfur conflict. 2008 (May): Sudanese government bombs hit schools and market places in Darfur, killing 13 civilians. UNHCR withdraws its staff from sites on the Chad/Sudan border citing insecurity. 2008 (June): Northern and Southern forces begin intense fighting over the disputed oil-rich town of Abyei. 2008 (July): The ICC calls for the arrest of President Bashir for genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in Darfur.
Anthropology Second Film Paper Assignment God Grew Tired Of Us In 1983 the civil war of North and South Sudan broke out because of years of fighting of the Arab North against the Black Christian and Animus South, religion and oil were the main reasons behind the fighting. In 1987, the Muslim government sent out an announcement to kill all male children in the South regardless of age. In order to survive the bloody war, thousands fled from Sudan to Ethiopia. When the Muslim government reached word of those who fled, the 86,000 men fled from Ethiopia to Kenya. The 12,000 men who were able to survive when they reached their destination were referred to as the “Lost Boys of Sudan”.
The Rwandan Genocide of 1994 witnessed the horrifying genocide of 800,000 (Diep.2007:6) people and left a country devastated by mass famine and atrocious acts of war, such as torture and rape. The ensuing outcry of “never again” (Diep.2007:6) from the international community however, appears to have been nothing but moral lip service as global society has yet again lain as insidious witness to a similar conflict that emerged within Darfur in 2003. Similarity exists between the Rwandan and Darfur conflict in that both sets of conflicts have taken place as struggles over power and resources between ethnic tribes and dominant elites. Though the major similarity of these conflicts is the relatively slow and at times indifferent response of the
People stop trusting each other, and every stranger becomes an enemy.” Written by Ishmael Beah in A Long Way Gone, that quote represents complete devastation that the war in Sierra Leone had on the people. Truthfully, reading about Beah’s experiences in his home country kept me intrigued and excited for more, but at the same time made me think about how my life would have been as a young girl in a similar situation. The Sierra Leone Civil War began when the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) and the National Patriotic Front of Liberia (NPFL) attempted to overthrow President Momoh’s government. In Beah’s story, the military took control of villages and towns with ease using children as soldiers. Beah and his friends chose to run from both the rebels and the army, while both were corrupt and taking part in the same murderous actions.
The effects of this violation of human rights not only affects the children who are abducted, but also following generations. Children of ex-soldiers are not accepted in society, which continues the vicious cycle in Uganda and neighboring regions. While looking at the expulsion in which former child soldiers face from their societies, there are many psychological factors that take place and cause great pain to these members of society. In Uganda, the two most prominent tribes are the Baganda tribe of the south in which focused their work in agriculture, and the Acholi people of the north in which focused their work in hunting and livestock. When the British occupied Uganda, they built a close relationship working side by side with the Baganda people up to the end of their occupancy.
Of the 47 million Sudanese people, over two million have died due to the civil wars raging on in Sudan(Military). This war has caused more than 50,000 people, from twenty different countries, to be resettled in Utah and has displaced more than four million. Of the millions of refugees in Sudan only about 70,000 are permitted into the United States each year. More than 80% of the refugees are single mothers who know little to no English(Cortez). A collection of kingdoms make up the country of Sudan.
The al-Shabaab militant group has become known around the world in the past few months for their infamous acts involving Somalia. The militants Involved with this group are making it increasingly hard to reach the people of Somalia who are still living in drought and famine conditions. Barricades and walls have been built by these such militants causing major problems for the aid groups trying to help stranded refugees. In addition, fighting has begun on the border of Somalia and Kenya due to the al-Shabaab and their plans to regain “several chunks of territory” (Gettleman, “Fighting Erupts on Border”) they had lost in the past month to the Somalian Government. Due to the fighting a majority of the Somalis retained in camps in Kenya were forced to leave and scatter among the devastation, some fleeing as far as the other side of the border, on Somalia’s soil.