Darfur

What is going on in Darfur? Darfur is a region of Sudan, Africa where there is non-stop fighting, murder, rape, etc. There was conflict in Darfur before all the fighting because there was tensions between two ethnic groups for resources and stuff. A civil war broke out and the Sudanese government sent troops in response to the civil war. Now, the Sudanese troops, Janjaweed militia, and the Sudanese Liberation army are coming into Darfurian villages and committing murder, rape, torture, etc. Many Darfurian people are seeking refuge in the neighboring country Chad.

Genocide is “Any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group, as such: Killing members of the group; Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; ...Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.” - Genocide intervention network. There is genocide going on in Darfur because the Sudanese government is hiring Arab militias such as the Janjaweed fighters (devils on horseback) to kill, rape, burn, and torture innocent Darfurian citizens.

The Justice and Equality Movement and other Darfurian rebel groups are trying to stop the genocide going on. They are trying to help but it is still really bad. There are 400,000 people who have died, 3 million people affected, 2.5 million displaced, and 200,000 that sought refuge in a neighboring country Chad. The Janjaweed soldiers and other militias do horrible things to the people of Darfur. The Darfurians are harmed because of “Indiscriminate aerial bombardment and destruction of villages, Indiscriminate, disproportional and extra judicial summary executions, rape and other forms of sexual violence, torture, systematic destruction of livelihoods, arbitrary arrests, abductions, use of child soldiers”- Genocide Intervention Network.

The Sudanese government is committing war crimes and genocide and they need to be stopped before more people die. On top of all of the trouble, there are many deadly epidemics that the Darfurians have to deal with like Cholera, Dengue fever, Dysentery, HIV/AIDS, Leishmaniasis, Malaria, Schistosomiasis, Typhoid fever, Trypanosomiasis, and Tuberculosis (TB). The people of Darfur are in dire need of rescue and medical help. There are also people dying because of