Darfur Conflict
Darfur is the main area of Western Sudan. It mainly has low laying plains and rolling hills. It is separated into three states, West, South, and North Darfur.
Darfur is very popular for the wars that has been happening since 2003. The Janjaweed is a Sudanese militia group that mainly favors the Arab and recruits only Arabian people in their militia. The government of Sudan claims that they do not support the Janjaweed but most people think they do. Sudan mainly uses oil to fund their armies. The Sudanese government has been sending attacks of Darfur's towns and villages just to fund the armies. The estimated number of casualties of Darfur because of the conflict is from twenty thousand to hundreds of thousands. Basically, the main part of the conflict is only for resources and money. Many people claim that this conflict is a genocide. Other countries have tried to help out, but they soon leave because they are not willing to protect the people or any other reasons. Overall, 5 million people have been affected because of the conflict. Many peace agreements have been proposed but the recent one was in June 2011. The Darfur Peace Agreement. The Sudan president signed it. An Equality Movement was also proposed. It was not signed but it is still up for offer as of now.
To me, I think the surrounding countries need to help out. If we don't help each other, we will all lose eventually. This conflict is just like what happened in Rwanda. Governments will attack people or other countries just to get resources or money. They will even attack because of race or religion. Resources are important but not as important as human lives.
(Below is the Janjaweed Militia)
Sources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_in_Darfur
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darfur
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