Genocide in Darfur

By Keeghan Pierce and Rikkie Cleeton.

Background•

Since Sudan’s independence in the 1950’s, there have been numerous insurgencies against the central government.

• In southern Sudan, the government and the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement signed a Comprehensive Peace Agreement to end a twenty-year-old civil war on January 9, 2005.

• Periodic tensions between the black African tribes and the Arabs settled in the area can be traced back to the 1930s.

• During the current violence, a United Nations fact-finding mission discovered that many ethnically African villages had been targeted for destruction, while nearby Arabic villages remained unscathed.

• These facts demonstrate that both the victims and the perpetrators subjectively viewed the black African tribes as a distinct group, further affirming their group status under the Genocide Convention.

• Because of all the genocide in Darfur the area as a whole canstantly lives in fear of if they will live or die that day.

What the people are going through!

• Women in Darfur are being rapped and beaten

• Strong Children are being used as laborers.

• Men are also being used as laborers.

Statistics

• Over the past six years, over 400,000 Darfurian civilians have been killed.

• 97% of these killings have been against innocent civilians and executed by militia groups instructed by the government.

Map

• This map shows were the trouble regions are in the country of Sudan.

Video

• http://www.savedarfur.org/pages/voices-for-darfur-video

What you can do!

There are many ways you can help the cause.

• You can do small things like making small donations.

• To bigger things like visiting Darfur and helping the people in the refugee camps.

Were you can find more info.

• How much do you know? http://www.funtrivia.com/playquiz/quiz2560151d4fc10.html Quiz Link

• Were you can go to help! http://www.genocideintervention.net what you can do

• http://www.24hoursfordarfur.org/main.php

• http://www.thewe.cc/contents/more/archive/darfur_sudan.html

Works sited• http://www.genocideintervention.net

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

• http://www.24hoursfordarfur.org/main.php

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_in_Darfur

• http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://darfursf.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/Darfur_map-278x300.png&imgrefurl=http://darfursf.org/content/about/&usg=__oBwWFnAawTOcTLU2QhqJ3sqrFfY=&h=300&w=278&sz=111&hl=en&start=14&um=1&itbs=1&tbnid=FLDs7YzJJytSvM:&tbnh=116&tbnw=107&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dmap%2Bof%2Bdarfur%2Bsudan%2Band%2Bgenocide%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Dstrict%26sa%3DG%26rlz%3D1T4GGLJ_enUS287US295%26tbs%3Disch:1

• http://www.amnestyusa.org/darfur/darfur-history/page.do?id=1351103

• http://www.thewe.cc/contents/more/archive/darfur_sudan.html

• http://www.dosomething.org/tipsandtools/11-facts-about-darfur