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.
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 World of Human Geography Interlaced with the Rwandan Genocide Many times in history, across the globe, innocent people were stripped of their calm lives, battered down, and slaughtered to death all due to the unfair discrimination of another race that claims they are superior. This forced many refugees to seek asylum, but those with a higher chance of surviving were those with connections. You can see all this happening in the Rwandan Genocide. Human Geography is the study of the relationship and distribution of humans and how it affects their culture and development. Human Geography focuses on the aspects of geography that relate to different cultures, with an emphasis on cultural origins, movement and characteristics of regions.
The civil war between the ethnic groups Hutu and Tutsi in Rwanda, like many civil wars in Africa, had colonial roots. However, the civil war took a extreme turn for the worst on a tragic day in April where thousands of Tutsis lost their lives in a relentless genocide that lasted a hundred days carried out by the Hutus. In this essay, I will explain the cause of the civil war, the 1994 genocide and the aftermath of the genocide. According to a articley called “Rwanda: How the Genocide Happeneded” in the BBC NEWS site, the conflict between the Hutus and Tutsi originated with the arrival of the Belgian colonist. Belgian colonial leaders and the Catholic Church deepened the racial divide between the majority Hutu populated country of Rwanda, by awarding Tutsi ethnic group better job and education opportunities.
As a result, a law was put into affect known as the “mandatory reporting” regulations (findlaw). Theses regulations require certain professionals like doctors, teachers and administrators to report to the police any suspicions of child abuse (findlaw). You would think with the creation of these regulations that we would have so many cases of child abuse reported yet still we have five children every die at the hands of their abusers (childhelp). And what is so alarming is that eighty percent of the children that die are under the age of four (childhelp). Although statistics state that five children die everyday from child abuse, there is evidence that more child abuse cases are ruled as natural death.
One, reason why tensions began was because once the Belgians gained control over the Rwanda they gave the authority to the minority Tutsis over the majority Hutus. The face that the Tutsis had received the power made the Hutus extremely mad which led them to start riots in
The U.N. and associated governing bodies knowingly veiled the rest of the world from the truth of Rwanda, portraying its citizens as savages and attributing the bloodshed to ancient hatred, when in fact they purposely stood by and did nothing to stop these vicious crimes against humanity. In my effort to stop genocide, I would become involved in spreading awareness, specifically through the lens of social media and television. With its widespread influence and long-reaching arm, I could open the eyes of the so many, showing them the grave injustices that struck Rwanda, through actual footage and eye-witness testimonies of survivors from both sides of the blood-stained conflict. My goal would be to motivate people with images and stories of the truth, exposing the atrocities and those who contributed for who they are
Like the genocides of the past century, it will be notorious principally for its cost in human life" (Perl 25). The people in Darfur aren't that different from people like us. We have the same body functions/needs, they have faith in a higher diety like we do, etc. But most importantly, something that people seem to forget, they're people just like everyone else in the world. The Darfurians, targeted and attacked by their own neglectful government, entire villages burned and obliterated, men savagely murdered, women visciously raped, and children, unmercifully and sadly, meeting their forced ends as well.
After World War I, Germany was forced to give up Rwanda in the Treaty of Versailles. Belgium became the new owners of Rwanda. The Belgians found Rwanda's political system at the time to be confusing, so they completely reformed it to better fit Belgium's political systems and understandings. The Belgians removed many chiefs from power and got rid of Hutu lords. The Belgians believed that the Tutsi were racially superior to the Hutu and thus granted them the political positions in the colony.
He was responsible for the deaths of thousands of people yet his good deeds cover up his bad deeds, which is idiotic. He should not be remembered for being the owner of the Congo Free State; he should also be remembered for causing the genocide of many Congolese people. After Leopold had relinquished the Congo the Belgium government still governed a substantial amount in the Congo (" Afterward..."). After years of the Belgium government running the Congo they