The Darfurian Genocide

Once General Omar Bashir took over Sudan in 1989, many resistances began to rise up against the government military. This drove, “The National Islamic Front government to inflame regional tensions… conflicts increased between African farmers and many nomadic Arab tribes” (Doc G). This shows the ethnic tensions involved because the government and the resistance were two different groups of people with a different ideals. This can cause genocide because there was already a hateful passion established to each of them, and killing each other would be the best solution. (Add more stuff).

The Bosnian Genocide also known as the Bosnian War or Crisis is a direct result from internal and external neglect. In order for an attack to be considered a genocide a systematic destruction of a group of people because of their ethnicity, nationality, religion, or race must occur. In Bosnia and Herzegovina it did. The overthrow and collapse of governments brought forth new ideas and ideologies that allowed for an extremist goal of power to spread. An international communities miscalculation and oversight, led to disastrous aid that only hurt the country's situation.

In the country of Sudan, there is a region about the size of France called Darfur. In 1989, Omar al Bashir took control of the Sudanese government. When conflict between the African farmers in Darfur and the Arab nomads arose, the African farmers looked to their

This made large divides between the two cultures and later many civil conflicts between the groups. In 1994 when the president 's plane was shot down the government and Hutu militants blamed the Tutsis, radio broadcasts across the country encourages Hutus to take revenge and kill the Tutsis, in the end an estimated 800000 to 1 million people died. The globalization of Belgians colony and the scramble for africa through that part of the world into a blood conflict of cultures and terrorist/militant groups that still rages on

History repeats itself, especially when it comes to the topic of genocide. The word “genocide” was created by a lawyer named Raphael Lemkin who combined the Greek word geno-, meaning race or tribe and the word -cide, Latin for killing. There have been a number of genocides that have occurred including, the murder of Jewish and Gypsy populations in 1944, the Rwanda genocide in 1944, and the genocide in Darfur in 2003. Genocide occurs because of propaganda, cultural expectations, and military strategies.

The idea of genocide has always existed throughout the world, ever since people struggled for power, wealth, and resources, as well as the concept of superiority and inferiority. As a more superior group of people gain power, they form new ideas of making a perfect society for them to live in. They start to terminate everyone else who are considered inferior to them or either those who oppose, which is a typical way of how genocide occurs. In Nazi Germany, soldiers under the leadership of Hitler had attempted to annihilate the entire “inferior” race, which they believed were hindering their nation. While in Darfur, militias under the order of the Sudanese government massacre rebels, as well as terrorize villages where innocent civilians live.

The term genocide was created by Raphael Lemkin as a means of describing the oppression inflected on the Jews during the Holocaust. He used the ancient Greek word genos (race, tribe) and the Latin word cide (killing), together they formed the word genocide. The Bosnian genocide, also known as a gendercide, was the second worst act of heinous crimes after what the Nazis had done to the Jews, which is known as the Holocaust. The Bosnian genocide was a horrific event in history that caused the death of about 100,000 people based on their gender, religion, and ethnicity. The Republic of Yugoslavia was established in 1945 at the end of World War II.

Genocide is one of the most cruel crimes that can be committed towards a mass amount of people. There are many documented genocide historical events, such as the Holocaust, where German Nazi’s belived they were very superior, and so their goal was to eliminate all people that were inferior to them, so they began murdering millions of Jewish people all across Europe along with many others such as gypsies, gay people, and disabled people. All throughout history the main reason that has caused hatred between people is ethnic and religious tensions. A more recent example of a genocide is the Rwandan genocide that occurred in Rwanda, Africa in 1994, where the Hutu majority rebelled against the Tutsi minority because the Belgian colonists gave superiority

In the text, BBC:100 days of genocide, it says, “ Lists of government opponents were handed out to militias who went and killed them, along with all of their families. Neighbors killed neighbors and some husbands, even killed their Tutsi wives, saying they would be killed if they refused.” You may wonder what would cause such a horrid thing? Well it all started way back in 1990 where they fought until a peace deal was agreed in 1993. But on the night of April 6th, 1994, president Juvenal Habyarimana, and his counterpart Cyprien Ntaryamira of Burundi, both Hutus, was shot down, killing everyone on board.

The Genocide in Darfur had called the attention along different nations all over the world. Involving a significant episodes of criminal and civil accountable. The region of Darfur belongs to a part of Sudan.

Children under the age of 18 are learning how to use a rifle before learning how to read and write. Because of this, Sudan’s crops suffer, leading to famine. These are only a couple ways in which how the wars are affecting the countries. If this continues, then their children will know nothing but violence and starvation. From the battles, people are fleeing their homes in fear, but not everyone makes it far enough to escape the wars.

Darfur Darfur is one of many countries on this planet that have a dystopian system, and a dystopia is very common thing. First of all, Darfur became a dystopian country when the Khartoum government neglected the request of help from the civilians of Darfur. A dystopian society is an unbalanced relationship between the government and civilians; Omar al-Bashir and the Khartoum government are the important people of Darfur that are controlling and terrorizing Darfur instilling fear in everyone. One can examine that Omar al- Bashir’s choices were very influencing on Darfur, his impacts had an enormous effect on normal civilians or another nation, and how genres of literature can be used as a tool in educating people about the progression towards

The government responded by using violence on these groups which in turn led to further violence. The issue has grown so large so fast that it is now being considered a civil war. Currently civilians are being targeted and killed for being part of a religious or ethnic minority. 20,000 children and 110,000 civilians have been killed. Children

The Rwandan genocide was a mass murder of thousands of Tutsi people by the Hutu people, they were viciously killed and scared out of their country, partly due to the rumor that a Tutsi man ordered the death of the Rwandan President. To begin, from April to July 1994, members of the Hutu ethnic group in the East-Central African nation murdered 800,000 men, women, and children from the Tutsi ethnic group. During this period Hutu civilians were forced by military soldier and police officers to kill their neighbors, friends, and family (“10 facts About the Rwandan Genocide-Borgen”). Radio stations encouraged ordinary civilians to take part in the killings (“10 facts About the Rwandan Genocide-Borgen”).

Darfur is a small region in western Sudan that underwent tragic events. The non-arab population in Darfur was viciously attacked through the systematic killing of this specific population. The purpose of these attacks was an attempt to racially cleanse the region, killing all citizens that were racially incorrect. These killings went on for a long time due to the lack of help Darfur received from more stable countries. In attempt to receive help, many different forms of media were created to try to communicate the struggles of Darfur to the rest of the world.