Today is my friend Taylor Leinen's birthday!
In the beginning of class we went over the South American map and discussed what's needed in our presentations. Then we went over our blog assignments of Darfur and Rwanda.
We started with Darfur-
Conflict: It all started with JEM (Justice & Equality Movement) started saying that the Sudanese Government didn't like the non-Arabs. For the reasons of their color, black arabs being discriminated. The government sent out rebels called the Janjaweed. These men killed anyone they didn't like which led to chaos. They raped women, killed children and families, and also went through villages in rage, burning everything in sight, forcing the people to flee all for the reasons of wanting land.
My side of the room talked about Rwanda. Basically it was a mass killing of Tutsis by the Hutus for being favored.
Then we watched Hotel Rwanda.
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