Darfur, a country about the size of Texas in Sudan, was attacked sometime back in February of 2003. The victims of this act were the black Africans that lived there. Some of these tribes that are and were labeled as black Africans are the Fur, the Massaleit, and the Zaghawa also known as the non-Arab people. These innocent civilians were attacked by the people known as Janjaweed or the Arab people with Arab ethnic backgrounds.
The key scenario that is thought to be the main reason that the Janjaweed people showed violent acts toward the non-Arab civilians was the rivalry between both of the groups for rare resources found in the Darfur-arable land. The Arabians have killed over 400,000 lives within 29 months; it still continues ‘till this day with over 1000 killed each month and over 100 people killed by day.
The Arabian government was and still is accused of hiring the Janjaweed’s to keep things under control and make sure that the black Africans did not try and rebel against them for the land. They were told to kill anyone that got in their way. Well, obviously, things got a little out of hand and they started killing innocent citizens and children. They also began raping women and mass murdering people that were not in their way but strictly innocent and had nothing to do with it. The Arab government denies any involvement with this militia group but it is almost a proven fact that they had an alignment with them.
The odds of the non-Arab ethnic group winning this battle were not in their favor, they were malnourished, and had much less rights and resources then the extremely strong, well-supplied, armed Arab militia army of approximately 20,000 men. As of now, 60 to 65 percent of the deaths are of the non-Arab fighters.
The United States and other international countries have been very hands-on about speaking out about the genocide acts happening in Darfur but they have all failed in acting upon it and take actions to stop this mass murder. In May of 2006 there was a peace agreement made, but this peace agreement caused even more of an uprising and increased the deaths of the black Africans.
My personal thought on this is that this is very wrong. I don’t know why we aren’t doing more to help. I can understand that we are in several wars ourselves but the other countries especially need to step in if they say they’re going too. I can’t imagine being in their position right now, living in a country that is pretty much ungoverned at the time and everywhere you go you have to be scared of what could happen next.
Sources:http://www.darfurscores.org/darfur
http://www.sudantribune.com/Genocide-in-Darfur-How-the-Horror,11445
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