Political leaders who might have been able to take charge of the situation and other high profile opponents of the Hutu extremist plans were killed immediately. Tutsi and people suspected of being Tutsi were killed in their homes and as they tried to flee at roadblocks set up across the country during the genocide. Entire families were killed at a time. Women were systematically and brutally raped. It is estimated that some 200,000 people participated in the perpetration of the Rwandan genocide.
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. The genocide began in early 2003 when members of two rebel groups revolted against the Sudanese government in Khartoum alleging systematic neglect of the inhabitants of Darfur. The two rebel groups are the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) and the Sudan Liberation Army (SLA). The government responded by launching an assault against these two rebel groups. Black Arabs were being discriminated against because they were black and they were being told that they weren't in the right religion.
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.
Zulkifli, Justin P.4 10/22/07 The Perspective Of A Boy Soldier Africa is a country torn by civil wars that have long been ignored. Many filmmakers, reporters and other authors have attempted to grasp the intensity of the civil wars but spoil them with frivolous embellishments. Unfortunately, they diminish the bloody massacre for what the war really is presenting the mass populace with a less accurate account of the terrible bloodshed. The Democratic Republic of the Congo makes up less than a quarter of Africa and has 1,200 people die daily with a total of more than 3.9 million dead since 1998. These numbers do not include the 1.3 million displaced Africans and more than 40,000 rapes that are increasing with each passing breath.
If you were wondering what the first settlement of Jamestown was like, try and picture a big swampy area with not a lot of resources to use. On top of that, the settlers weren’t too bright themselves. The inhospitable conditions severely challenged the settlers. Jamestown was a swampy area, and furthermore, it was isolated from most potential hunting game such as deer and bears which like to roam over much larger areas. The settlers quickly hunted and killed off all the large and smaller game that was to be found on the tiny peninsula.
The presidential guards recruited a mass amount of Hutu citizens to join them in the killing spree. The Hutu citizens were given money or food and sometimes were able to take the land of the Tutsis they killed. The next day RPF declared war on the government forces once again. The result of this was an estimated 800,000 deaths in total for both sides (PPU "Genocide Rwanda”). This civil war finally ended in July when the RPF took control of Kigali the capital of Rwanda.
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.
Fighting soon broke out among the Somali National Movement, the party of Mohammed Farah Aidid, rival factions loyal to Ali Mahdi and various lesser groups. Internecine warfare followed, destroying the fragile economy of Somalia. In one year an estimated 300 – 500,000 Somalis died, either directly from fighting or indirectly of starvation. Chaos reigned until 03 March 1992, when the warring parties agreed to a cease-fire to allow humanitarian assistance monitored by the United Nations (UN). On 15 August 1992, United Nations Operations in Somalia (UNOSOM I) began Operation Provide Relief.
For the first case, a massive flood displaced nearly eight-hundred graves in Hardin, Missouri in 1993. Authorities found displaced human remains over twenty-six square miles of land; fifty people were killed; 55,000 homes were damaged or destroyed; 58,000 people were displaced. It was a truly atrocious, upsetting scenario in which the likelihood of finding bodies was very low, and the procedures were costly. The public expected a lot from the anthropologists, hoping that they would work quickly and be able to recover all of the bodies of their missing families and friends. (Shows like “CSI” and “FBI” may give people an unrealistic expectation of these sorts of jobs.)
The Battle of Mogadishu The Battle of Mogadishu went from a normal military kidnapping to a seventeen hour firefight for soldiers lives. Most Americans have the image of American soldiers being dragged lifeless through the streets of Mogadishu, half-naked, but the event itself was much more than that. It was an event filled with miscommunication, bad choices and American heroes fighting for their lives (Alex 1). The Battle of Mogadishu led to the deaths of thousands of Somali militia, which caused the United States to intervene leading to one of the United States Military’s largest aggravating military defeats. There were many events that took place that led up to the battle.