Darfur

In one of the more recent cases of genocide, and an example of how we have learned nothing, would be in Darfur (3). This crisis has been ongoing for well over a decade but its relative climax came in 2003 (2). With 3 million people displaced and over 300,00 of the Sudanese civilians dead (4). This death toll was staggering, and continues to rise. The actual genocide taking place in Darfur was for the most part ignored and overlooked, by the rest of the…

Genocide is defined by the united nations as any of the following actions committed with intent to destroy a national, ethnic, racial or religious group: Killing members of the group; Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group, or forcibly transferring children of the group to another…

This position was important but challenging especially because the Battalion was undergoing a UN peacekeeping pre-deployment training and was to be deployed in one of the most insecure place of Darfur. The Battalion Hq was to be established in Kabkabiya locality which was the most insecure area of Darfur because it was also known as the Headquarter of Janjaweed militias, a pro-government militia group that was conducting ethnic cleansing on behalf of the Sudan government. In addition, it was to…

Ms. Joanne Herring was a Texas socialite, the high-flying trophy wife of an oil baron who counted among her friends Princess Grace of Monaco, but she will be forever defined as the woman who charmed a womanizing senator into taking up the cause of the Afghani mujahideen (Charlie Wilson Biography). Charlie Wilson would leverage his position on the Defense Appropriations committee to secretly funnel billions of dollars to the mujahideen to help them fend off the Soviets, dealing a crippling blow…

Throughout the years, social media has had a powerful impact on how the world communicates today. It is a big part of our life these days. The new tools of social media have reinvented social activism. They make it easier for the powerless to give voice to their concerns. The impact of online movements has been substantial since the introduction of the internet. With the ever-growing medium of social media, internet activism has reached the forefront of the internet. The opportunity for…

Dzungar, Circassian, Armenians, Holodomor, Jewish, Cambodians, Rwandan and Darfur. All too many genocides. When will it stop? When will we learn? When will we stop forgetting about the past and when will the history books end the patterns of genocide? When? The survivors share their stories, but do we listen? Elie Wiesel was a fifteen-year-old boy with a life ahead of him, when his religion; following Judaism, made him a target in Adolf Hitler's extermination plans. He had done nothing wrong,…

The United Nations and the Identification and Prevention of Genocides What is genocide? A genocide is a mass killing with intent to destroy whole, or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group. Some examples of genocides may come to mind: the Holocaust, Rwanda and the killings of indigenous people in the early twentieth century. These terrible crimes have haunted humanity’s past, but the United Nations (UN) still allows genocides to occur today. But why? The United Nations need…

“One Murder made a Villain / Millions a Hero.” – Death: A Poetical Essay by Beilby Porteus, 1759 Utilitarianism. Jeremy Bentham first coined the modern interpretation of utilitarianism in 1812, as a “defined utility as the aggregate pleasure after deducting suffering of all involved in any action,” or in simpler terms, the most good for the most amount of people, serving to maximize pleasures and/or minimize suffering. How did a moral based principle created by a social reformer, less than a…

and the cause of Genocide. In that paper, I stated that I know a little bit about Genocide because of the media but I don’t know anything as to how it had happened or the causation. In the media, it mainly focuses on the Holocaust and Genocide in Darfur but there seems to be no discussion on other Genocide that had happened or happening. I was surprised to learn about the Armani Genocide and Cambodian Genocide because it was never been taught in the class. I am interested to know why the schools…

also held a telethon after the horrible earthquake that occurred in Haiti raising about 50 million dollars. This telethon also supported those that were effected by hurricane Katrina. iii. Brought the major corruption occurring in Darfur, Sudan back to attention. Darfur is where a genocide occurred and massive rapes had occurred and the government was trying to cover it up along with the genocide itself. iv. Transition: I would agree that he’s done a lot of giving back during his time. c. Point…