Genocide does exist today in countries around the world today like Darfur, Sudan. People in Darfur, Sudan are experiencing genocide. Sudan is in the North East side of Africa. Darfur is the South Western part of the country. The genocide in Darfur, Sudan has already caused hundreds of thousands of Darfuris to die and cause more than 2 million people to be homeless.
Genocide is the systematical destruction of a being by another being from the same specie. Most likely, genocide happens to the weak or poor civilization attacked by a most powerful (“Voices In…” n.pag). Is the case of Sudan where the Arabic community, with significant support from the government, kills weak and powerless black Christians (“Voices In…” n.pag). The word genocide was created during the Second World War (“Voices In…” n.pag). Genocide is defined as the massive killing of a civilization by another civilization for different reasons which can include ethnical, religious or political differences (“What Is Genocide” n.pag).
The genocide of Darfur is regarded as the only genocide of the 21st century. The genocide started in 2003 and since then has claimed over 400,000 lives and displaced over two million. The Sudanese government supported an Arab militia group called the Janjaweed who began the process of ethnic cleansing on the civilians of Darfur. This is included starvation, rape, and murder. The intent of this was to eradicate an entire people.
It is an unfortunate incident, only to become even more devastating to the Christian peoples. The Armenians, the Pontic Greeks, and the Assyrians were all forced from their homes by gunpoint and made to march all day. They left their homes in the lush, green lands into the exceedingly hot, dry desert with very little food and water to survive. The combination of intense climate change, malnutrition, dehydration, disease, and violence led to thousands of these people dying during the marches. One of the most moving accounts of this atrocity is Thea Halo’s Not Even My Name.
Darfur Genocide Daniel Willis Intro to the Holocaust Southern Nazarene University 2/17/15 Darfur Genocide This essay covers chapter 17 of the book “Century of Genocide” by Samuel Totten. Darfur has been at war since 2003 with mass killings, rape and pillaging still going on to this day. Darfur is a region located in west Sudan roughly the size of France. The region is comprised of three separate states, Northern Darfur, Western Darfur and Southern Darfur. Most of the inhabitants of Darfur are self-proclaimed Muslims made up of “black African tribes” and Arab tribes.
Genocide is the most violent way to gain power among power holders in Rwanda. According to Umutesi’s article, power was transposed between Hutu-dominated government and Tutsi- dominated government in 1962, 1973, 1990. All the changes were done in violent ways. Besidess, Tutsi people were labeled as enemies by hardliners of Hutu-led government. “The genocide was calculated to exterminate them; the hateful vitriol used against the Tutsi in the press and on radio broadcasts illustrated this thought process” (citation 1).
It is estimated that some 200,000 people participated in the perpetration of the Rwandan genocide. In the weeks after April 6, 1994, 800,000 men, women, and children perished in the Rwandan genocide, perhaps as many as three quarters of the Tutsi population. At the same time, thousands of Hutu were murdered because they opposed the killing campaign and the forces directing it. The Rwandan genocide resulted from the conscious choice of the elite to promote hatred and fear to keep itself in power. This
Any genocide in history is important because a lot of people died in cruel and unusual ways and it’s wrong. Victims of any genocide did not deserve to be discriminated against and did nothing to deserve to be killed from pure hate, and that is exactly what happened in the Ukraine Famine. The Ukraine Famine was headed by Joseph Stalin during 1932-1933. Millions Ukrainian people starved to death and as a result, it oppressed the national pride of the Ukrainian people. In 1929, Stalin arrested over 5,000 educated Ukrainian people and they were either shot without trail or sent to prison camps in remote areas in Russia.
These numbers do not include the 1.3 million displaced Africans and more than 40,000 rapes that are increasing with each passing breath. Ishmael Beah, an African who was once a part of one of the many civil wars inside Africa has a perspective of war that no other, author or producer has ever been able to reproduce in the way Ishmael Beah has done. With the creation of his memoir “A Long Way Gone” Ishmael has told the world about the cruelties and injustices committed upon boy soldiers. The attributes that Ishmael Beah uses in his memoir “A Long Way Gone” are simple. The personal bond that Ishmael creates between himself and the audience makes Ishmael a profound and unique storyteller.
The country had been in a state of segregation for a decade and as a result there had been riots and civil unrest among the blacks and fierce oppression by the whites, this was a place very like a warzone, which leads into the second poem What were they Like? This poem is set in Vietnam soon after the war. The country had been devastated by a bloody conflict with the USA which had resulted in an awful human cost. The USA also devastated the country with horrific weapons of mass destruction. The new weapon napalm was used to burn villages many lives in Vietnam were lost as they were in South Africa.