This is my assigned web log, as the title clearly states. It is over the topic of another genocide, this one taking place in Darfur, which is a city in Sudan. Sudan is a country in Northern Africa. I will be using a very similar format to the Rwanda blog I did last week.What exactly happened, yo?There had been many tensions in Sudan, being a North vs. South civil war just resolving. Many conflicts in Darfur had broken out in the late 1970's between various tribes, which potentially may have led to the future hate. But the true trigger of all this was when the Sudan Liberation Army (SLA) and the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) accused the Sudanese government of favoring the Arabs over the Africans that resided in the country.The city was split into two sides. One consisted of mainly Afro-Arabs with muslim beliefs, which were in the Sudanese military and the Janjaweed militia group. On the other hand, the rebel group was composed of the SLA and the JEM. These groups were composed of non-Arab muslims that were of many ethnicities, but for the most part, they came from the Fur, Zaghawa, and Masalit groups. These were the three races killed most often, which led for some to believe it was genocide.The government of Sudan was even accused of the tampering of evidence. Some examples of these are how they alledgedly harrassed and assaulted journalists to ensure that the exposure of the situation was limited. Also, they supposedly attempted to cover up mass graves, where many corpses were buried together, most of them being unidentified.
This is obviously an explosion, likely from a bomb during the conflict.The two groups on the rebel side launched an uprising on the government, which led to the catastrophe. It was claimed to be a genocide by the U.S., but the UN begged to differ. They stated there wasn't any evidence showing it was genocide, as there wasn't any intent of genocide. There were over 400,000 lives that were claimed, which were taken from multiple factors, a few of them being violence and disease. Another scary fact is that 2.5 million civilians were displaced from their homes during this span. This event had no abrupt end, apparently, as far as my research shows.During all this, the UN thought the situation needed urgent action to prevent any more deaths of this so called genocide. Despite of this, they were slow to it, and many UN representatives claimed the situation was completely unacceptable and our effort was pathetic.
This is a cartoon, which is mocking how the UN's poor reaction time to helping during the crisis.What happened after the genocide, dude?Apparently, the SLM/A came extremely close to signing a peace agreement with the Sudanese government, but one of the "factions" of said SLM/A refused to sign it. In July of 2008, the former president of Sudan, Omar al-Bashir, of many crimes, including three counts of genocide, five crimes against humanity counts, and two of murder. However, later in the year, they dropped the genocide charges due to a lack of proof.What I think about the siz-ituation?Once again, I am stating I think it's awful that people are killed in countries just because of their skin color, and I am unbelievably glad I live in America.
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