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The World Kept Quiet Silence the Genocide
Darfur Holocaust
“Genocide is underway in Darfur Sudan. Already, 50,000 African
Muslims have been killed and 1.2 million displaced by the Sudanese
Government and by Arab Janjaweed militias armed and encouraged by
Khartoum. The Bush Administration itself warned of the magnitude of the
crisis, if no action is taken. We cannot, in good conscience, stand by
and let this genocide continue.”
Barack Obama (2004)
The United Nations are fighting to make a world in which tyranny and aggression cannot exist; a world
based upon freedom, equality, and justice; a world in which all persons
regardless of race, color, or creed may live in peace, honor, and dignity. In the
meantime in most of Europe and in parts of Asia the systematic torture and murder of civilians by the Nazis
and the Japanese continue unabated. In areas subjugated by the
aggressors, these innocent people are being starved or frozen to death or
murdered in cold blood in a campaign of savagery.
Franklin D Roosevelt (March 24, 1944)
Genocide
the deliberate and systematic destruction of a racial, political, or cultural group
Purpose of this Presentation
Look at common threads among genocidal actions to prevent in the future
See what, if anything the world has learned from the Holocaust
Darfur
1st Sudanese Civil War 1955 -19722nd Sudanese Civil war 1983 -2005
Darfur 2003 - present
Holocaust
November 1938 - May 1945
Analyzing the Years…
What do you think are the differences?
What were the similarities?What were the differences?
Could you tell the two time periods apart?
Why?What about these victim groups caused anger within their perpetrators?
How did the hatred of Jews differ from Sudanese civilians?
Causes Holocaust
These three fallacies are the most likely culprits:
Scapegoat - Jews were easy to single out and blame.
Outsiders - Jews were different. Racial Theory - Jews were
inferior to the ideal Aryan race
Darfur
1984-1985 drought shrunk grazing resources, causing conflicts with
agriculturalists.
Like the South, Darfur suffered from underdevelopment in both colonial
and postcolonial eras.
The Sudanese government is trying to remain in power and the country
under control.While ethnicity remains a key issue because both rebel and janjaweed are Muslim
In both cases, the ruling group/extremists needed the help of who to carry out their genocide?
What differences existed in the manner these genocides were carried out?
Methods Holocaust
Nazi soldiers, officers, civilians
Shooting squads
Lethal injection, poisonous gas, mobile killing units, extermination camps, cremation, forced labor, starvation, exposure, brutality,
disease, execution
Darfur
Janjaweed MilitiasGovernment sponsored terror
Destruction of towns, food and water supplies
Millions threatened bystarvation, rape murder
Firearms, machetes, and a variety of
garden implements
Affected Population
Darfur
Refugees 157,220 (Eritrea)
25,023 (Chad)11,009 (Ethiopia)7,895 (Uganda)
5,023 (Central African Republic)Internally Displaced Persons 5,300,000
Civilian Deaths - 400,000
= 5,906,170 and counting
Holocaust
Jews - 5,900,000Soviet POWs - 2,500,000Ethnic Poles - 1,900,000
Roma - 360,000Disabled - 225,000
Freemasons - 140,000Homosexuals - 15,000
Jehovah's Witnesses - 5,000Displaced Persons
9,500,000
= 11,045,000 killed
20,545,000
Remember, behind each number is a real person with a real family and real hopes and dreams
Are apologies enough for the failure to act on behalf of these victims?Is there anything that the world could say or do to make it right?
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
The World Kept Quiet
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