War in Darfur

TO WHAT EXTENT CAN MASS MURDER IN DARFUR BE CALLED A GENOCIDE OR A CIVIL WAR Darfur is a western region of Sudan in Africa and is home to about 6 million people, the majority of which are Muslim. Violence in Sudan broke out in February 2003 when 2 rebel groups -the Sudan liberation Movement/Army (SLA/M) and the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) – began fighting the government of Sudan which they accused of oppressing Darfur’s Non Arab population. The government’s response to this was to begin…

Today, in Darfur, thousands of people are being killed by the Janjaweed, causing millions more to flee to safety. Located in the western part of Sudan, Darfur was once a home to millions of people, who are now being targeted because of they land they live on. In February 2003, the mass murder and displacement of the Darfurians began. However, this conflict has been going on for much longer than just the past thirteen years. It began after Sudan gained independence from Britain in 1956.…

The story of the Darfur genocide is one not told often. It is the story of a war, in a South African country where around half a million people died. This war began in 2003 and continued until 2010. Many people have tried to get the word about the dying country out to other countries and people who can help through the means of poetry, song, photography, and videos. All of these means of communicating have advantages and disadvantages to them, however the video communicated the information the…

started on February 26, 2003 and it is still happening to this day. The “Darfur Genocide” refers the Janjaweed militia in Sudan that, “systematically destroy Darfurians by burning villages, looting economic resources, polluting water sources, and murdering, raping, and torturing civilians”(“Darfur…

In book “A Long Walk to Water” by Linda Sue Park a character named Salva describes, “The soldiers fired their guns into the air and chased the people away from the camp… They are driving us back to Sudan,”(Park 75). This showed a community not accepting someone. In Ethiopia, they were driving out foreign refugees, rejecting them, just like the community did right when Ha, a character in the book “Inside Out and Back Again” by Thanhha Lai, showed up, but in a more forceful way. This relates to Ha…

live? Consistently bombed and nuked everyday? That’s the life of the Darfur men, women, and children. It is still a mystery today to why this is happening. This Genocide is “being carried out by a group of government armed and funded Arab military.” Their motive is unclear, people 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…

opposition might also use evidence such as “In explaining to the Security Council his effort to have Bashir arrested, Moreno-Ocampo said that it takes a lot of planning and organization to commit massive crimes like those that have taken place in Darfur. ‘But mostly," he said, "it requires that the rest of the world look away and do nothing.” from “The Charge: Genocide” By Lydia Polgreen to show how their claim is better fitting. They might also say that the evidence supports their claim…

today’s “barbarians.” Many Muslim states and people have been “othered” by states following the attacks. States, such as the United States, have even gone to the extent of waging war on/in their country. In The Bombardment of Damascus, Quincy Wright asserts that international law does not “require the application of [the] laws of war to people of different civilization” as the law does not explicitly state that there is a distinction between civilized and barbaric peoples (Wright 266). The role…

are dialectical, it is without a doubt that determining the cause of civil war and other violent conflicts issues would be just as complicated. Africa’s history with European Colonialism caused serious implications for the future of the countries both on the mainland and the islands. Politics following the post-colonialism period had also adverse affects on the future of African nations with the rise and fall of the cold war and also the subsequent political powers to come. Emphatically,…

respective conflicts. The civil war in Syria began in March of 2011 due to a growing resentment of the government regime led by Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, creating an eventual armed civil conflict between rebel groups and the government. A direct result of the conflict has been the humanitarian refugee crisis involving refugees fleeing to surrounding states. The ongoing conflict between Sudan and South Sudan has a similar basis to Syria, also starting as a civil war in Sudan as early as…