Today we are doing our blog discussion. Also on our semester test what are issues facing Africa and Middle East today, talk about 3 things that are current problems. We have to check the website for the time when we will take our semester test.
Darfur, Sudan: JEM (Justice Equality Movement) SLM-Darfur area rebel group vs Sudanese Gov't (Arabs) Darfur believe that Sudanese Gov't is favoring the Arabs over the Balck Africans. The SLM and JEM attack their Gov't in 2003. Killed an uknown amount of people (200,000 or more) trying to take over the Gov't. The Gov't is hiring the Janjaweed-a group on horseback who come and rape, burn, steal, poison water of African villages. Some callling it a genocide. The Janjaweed get to keep what they want from the villages before killing the people. The Gov't denies this-Pres. Al Bashir. Some believe that they are doing this for payback others say it is because of racism. The Gov't wants the land-the Sahara Desert is growing and there is less and less farmable land. If they are killing them for the land then it is not genocide, just massacre. If it is killing becaus of race than it is genocide. A lot of people fled to other countries- such as Chad (2 million). UN and Red cross is there getting food and rescources to the displaced people, but they don't know what to do to stop the fighting. It is very hard to track the Janjaweed down. We could not go in and help without the permission of the Sudanese Gov't.
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