Omar Torrijos

North and the repressed Christian South. The 1989 coup d’etat resulted in the successful overthrow of democratically elected Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi, head of the Umma Party, and lead to the takeover of political Islam agenda established by Col. Omar al-Bashir’s National Islamic Front. The presidential elections since then have mostly been plagued by irregularities, and…

A girl screams for her mother as she hears the shotgun piercing through her ears. She saw as the men in the uniform, the bad nightmares, break into her house. She saw as her dad collapsed, groaning and shrieking in agony, clutching his body. She saw her mother kicking and screaming, telling her to run. The girls vision was blurry, overflowing with pain, but she knew this day was going to come, so she ran. A genocide in Sudan has been occurring for a while now, it started on February 26, 2003 and…

The movie War Dance, addresses an immensely important problem of violence and bloodshed in Northern Uganda. The war was started in the 19802’s due to an anti-government movement. The Lord’s Resistance Army is led by Joseph Kony, who wants to govern Uganda based on strict biblical laws. The war has a very violent nature and has displaced 2 million individuals, murdered 10,000, and abducted 20,000 children. In order to keep the civilians safe, the government has created a multitude of “protection…

This case occurred in Sudan’s western region known as Darfur. Similar to the Rwanda case, Darfur was violence spurred by ethnic and political difference. According to a Foreign Affairs article, the “roots” of the violence remains unclear however the violence was between an Arab lead government and three African tribes. After the 1980s famine and drought lead to impoverishment for many people of Darfur. Conflict originally arose over the now scare resources of food, water, land and commodities.…

believe it’s of jealousy or just for fun. The Darfur genocide is about a the government against the Darfur people. The military would destroy the Darfur by, looting their towns, murdering or torturing families, and burning down their towns. President Omar al-Basher, the President of Sudan, commanded the Military and…

The International Criminal Court should have an arrest warrant for Omar al-Bashir since he supported Arab militias, indirectly committed genocide and did not wish to help the civilians of Darfur. The Janjaweed, the Arab militias that committed many crimes against humanity, were supported by al-Bashir’s government. In February 2004, “Janjaweed militia wearing government uniforms attack[ed] a boarding school in Tawila, Darfur forcing 110 Zaghawa girls to strip naked at gunpoint before conducting…

In Darfur is where one of the biggest civil wars take place in Africa at the time wiping out around 30,000 people and still is ongoing to this day. In 2003, Africans in Darfur started a revolt against the government of Sudan which lead to the Darfur genocide. The government of Sudan retaliated back by hiring Arab Militia to raid Non Arabic villages. Their purpose was to eliminate all non-Arabic’s from their community. They did this by burning their villages, taking their resources, polluting…

John Perkins was a former member of the international banking community, very well respected. In his new book The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, he describes how he was a highly paid professional, his functions of being an (EHM), he helped the United States cheat poor countries around the globe. He convinced the political and economic leaders to invest in foreign aid by lending them money that could make it difficult for them to repay and allow them to take over their economies. The…

laundering, murder, and selling classified CIA information to Cuban and Eastern European governments, are already surfacing. In 1987, an interview with Colonel Roberto Diaz Herrera revealed the string of Noriega’s wrongdoings including his involvement in Torrijos’ death, the killing of Spadafora, rigging of the 1984 election results, as well as his involvement in other killings and tortures. This led to a public outcry and rallies led by the Civic Crusade, a group which publicly opposed Noriega…

Around 10,000 years ago, several indigenous groups are thought to have lived in Panama. When the Spaniards first arrived in Panama, the Cuevas and Coclé were the major tribes in the area. However, many natives of the area were killed upon Spanish arrival by the spread of European diseases. Columbus claimed the area for Spain in 1502 and Panama was used as a route for shipping Incan goods to Spain. In 1821, Spain was overthrown and Panama became a province of Colombia. In 1903, Panama declared…