Students With A View

The first genocide of the twenty-first century is currently going on in Darfur, Sudan, and has caused distress and pain among many innocent civilians of Darfur. Of the 6 million people that live in Darfur, thousands upon thousands have been killed, and 2.5 million Darfurians have been displaced from the villages they live in. In 2007, over 250,000 people were displaced in that year alone. Due to displacement and much violence, refugees have escaped to the bordering country, Chad. International peacekeepers have been trying relentlessly to bring Darfur the appropriate protection and aid Sudan needed.(genocideinterventionnetwork.org)

In 1917, Darfur was a strong monarchy and had economic ties with bordering countries and the Mediterranean. (genocideintervention.net). When Darfur was brought into the region of the Republic of Sudan by the British, in 2003, small ethnic groups gained power. Sudan’s government sent in hired soldiers to destroy the existence of Darfurians by bombing villages, murdering, raping women and children, and ruining all economic activity. This violence has hurt not only Darfur, but also humanitarian convoys trying to stop this mess.

Trying to help, the UN had stepped in and sent in approximately 19,000 troops to protect and 6,000 police to monitor the violence. (protectdarfur.org) Other countries have tried to step in, but have never succeeded in following through.

We, as humans, can send more food to the Darfurians, therefore, lessening the number of starvation deaths, sending food itself and not sending the materials to grow food because Janjaweeds would burn the crops. Hopefully, the food we did send would get to the ones who actually needed it, then who just wanted food. Although we have no control over this, we could try our hardest to get it where we wanted it to go. We could send in more troops to stop the violence, create more organizations and foundations to donate money and support these suffering people, send medical supplies to help health needs, organize the government, and setup tent cities for Darfurians to flee to. (darfurgenocide.org).

–tennisgirl

http://www.genocideintervention.net/educate/darfur

http://www.eyesondarfur.org/takeaction.html

http://www.savedarfur.org/content?splash=yes

http://www.darfurgenocide.org/act.php