Modern Genocides.

      As far as crimes against humanity, their is nothing quiet compares to genocide. Just the idea of slaughterer your own people for nothing more than personal gain goes against everything that makes us human in the first place. Reason, compassion, and selflessness. When we learn about the holocaust in our history classes, we are only getting the part of the story. We are almost lead to believe we all learned our lesson from that horrible attrocite, but that is not true. Unfortunately, modern day genocides are a harsh and present reality.

    February 2003, the fire or war was ignited in  of Sudan when the SLMA and the JEM took arms against their Arab government, accusing them of oppressing them because of their race and beliefs.  They were met by the oil funded military of Sudan and the Janjaweed. As the war raged all around Sudan, the people of  the Darfur region of Sudan were targeted. They were targeted because of their resistance to Khartoum's authoritarian rule. Hundreds of their villages were attacked in the war by the Janjaweed, destroying over 400 villages in total and killing thousands of people. In total, over 400,000 people have been killed in the Darfur Genocide and 2,500,000 have been displaced from their homes.


     Unfortunately, not all of these deaths have been due to the war. Thousands of people have died of disease in Darfur, because these people haven't been getting the international attention they deserve. The international community have been hesitant to intervene, because of the fragile peace talks that have been going on in Sudan. While a treaty has been signed, their has been a horrifying lack of international intervention, which the people of Darfur despairingly need as they continue to die. We can only hope this changes, because no political grandstanting of loss of face is worth the death of anyone. 





Work Cited
Genocide in Darfur The Nation Web March 2 2012
http://www.thenation.com/article/genocide-darfur

Genocide in Darfur United Human Rights March 2 2012
http://www.unitedhumanrights.org/genocide/genocide-in-sudan.htm