UNICEF uses the following four strategic approaches to strengthen the protective environment for boys, girls and young people: 1. Promoting Justice for Children – through the provision of accessible, effective and quality protection services to children who are in contact with the law. UNICEF supports those children particularly vulnerable to abuse, neglect and violence by working with Special Protection Units at police stations and by strengthening social welfare services, and actors within the judiciary.
2. Support to Community-based Programmes for the Protection of Children Affected by Armed Conflict – This includes preventing the recruitment and use of children by armed forces or armed groups; supporting the release and reintegration of children who are still associated with armed forces and groups; preventing and responding to violence against children, including gender-based violence; protecting children from harmful traditional practices; protecting children from abduction, including by the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA); providing psychosocial support services, family tracing and reunification of separated and unaccompanied children; providing family-based care services for children without parental care, including children who live and work on the streets; strengthening community support groups to enhance the protection of children; and supporting the provision of mine risk education to protect children from landmines and explosive remnants of war.
3. Advocacy and support for the implementation of the Child Act; the protection of children associated with armed forces and groups; introduction of social a protection programme as a poverty reduction measure; development of the civil registration system with a focus on birth registration; and the protection and fulfilment of children’s rights.
4. Capacity development of key actors within the social welfare, legal systems and the judiciary, lawmakers and law enforcement agents at national and state level, communitybased child protection workers, children, young people, families and communities. The programme has contributed to the following key achievements: • Enactment and dissemination of the Child Act. More than 200,000 government officials, community members and children have received information on the Act and the use of the framework to enhance the legal protection of children. • Strengthened social welfare system through the training of social workers in the Ministry of Gender, Child and Social Welfare and the State Ministries of Social Development. • In the last five years, UNICEF has supported the release and reintegration of more than 3,500 children who have been associated with armed forces or groups. • In the last two years more than 50,000 children and young people affected by armed conflict have received protection services, including psychosocial support. • In the last two years more than 275,000 key actors in child protection in the national and state government, UN, international and national NGOs, community-based organizations, faith-based organizations and communities have received information and education on how best to protect children from landmines, violence, abuse and exploitation
Primary Source: http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/sudan_34674.html *click "view the video diary"
International Primary Source from RedCross (survivor's story): http://www.redcross.org.uk/What-we-do/Emergency-response/Past-emergency-appeals/Darfur-Crisis-Appeal-2007/Survivors-stories/Halimas-story
“When I first got to the camp the situation was really bad. “Things have got better with help from the Red Cross. We receive distributions of food and things for the home, like blankets. But we really need clothes and some new cooking pots. “When the children get sick I’m able to take them to the Red Cross. I took Fatma to the feeding centre because she was poorly. I received some treatment for her, and some special food to make her well again.”
Primary source: El Fadel Arbab tells of his experience in the genocide as a child "Early one morning, when I was 12 years old, the Janjaweed surrounded my village in the Zalingei area of western Darfur. They started attacking people, killing them in their homes and setting their houses on fire. They slaughtered children. Burnt and soaking wet, I ran into the woods and climbed a tree. I stayed there all day. From my perch, I could see the Janjaweed and the Sudanese military killing people. Young boys, they beheaded immediately. Girls they killed and dumped in the river. Pregnant women had their bellies cut open with machetes and their breasts slashed."
International Response: http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB335/Document4.PDF
Alex Velazquez Period 5 Impact On Children ------------------- Images: http://stopgenocidenow.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/20061125_CHAD_1_190.jpg http://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/media/images/photographs/2004_Darfur_Sudan.jpg http://img4.allvoices.com/thumbs/image/609/480/86467493-sudanese-army.jpg ___________________ Primary Source: http://www.humanitarianstudies.no/2013/04/21/poc-the-politics-of-counting-rape-in-darfur/ ______________________________________ International Response: http://www.docstoc.com/docs/91518105/Investors-Against-Genocide-Draw-the-line-at-investing-in-genocide-FOR-IMMEDIATE-RELEASE-Susan-Morgan---Investors-Against-Genocide-001-617-797-0451
Also More Information at: http://www.InvestorsAgainstGenocide.org/UNGCandPetroChina
Primary Source: "Currently, a peace deal between the government and a major insurgent group is coming unglued. With the advent of the dry season, the Sudanese army and the fractious Darfur rebels are primed for a new military showdown. And, paradoxically, negotiators on the ground worry that a well-intentioned human-rights campaign, launched by Western activists on behalf of Darfur's civilians, may actually be locking in the violence. With Khartoum tarred as the bully, there is scant hope for any last-minute dialogue before the offensives begin." - Paul Salopek
International Response: http://youtu.be/LlIL2gmXGg4
PRIMARY SOURCE::: At the camp, World Vision staff work tirelessly, distributing food rations from the World Food Program (WFP) to those in need. However, getting the food rations to distribute is becoming increasingly difficult. Recently, World Food Program trucks have become a target of violence. Armed assailants have hijacked 60 trucks since January and killed five WFP drivers during March and early April.
Despite the challenges of increased instances of violence, as well as rising food and transportation costs, World Vision staff members continue to provide ongoing food distributions to more than 400,000 displaced Darfurians within this and 20 other camps in the region.
Resources are constantly stretched as the fighting continues and thousands are fleeing their villages in search of safety. According to the United Nations, 2.4 million people in Darfur are displaced. That's one-third of the region's population. (View a U.N. profile [pdf] of the humanitarian crisis.)
Since December 2007, World Vision has registered more than 18,000 new arrivals at the Al Salaam camp. Fatma — who was driven from her village after a militia attack — and thousands like her seek safety in numbers, food aid, and care that camps try to provide.
Fatma's story
Fatma was understandably distraught when she arrived at the Al Salaam camp.
With a tremble in her voice, Fatma recounts how her family was scattered after heavily armed militia attacked their village in June 2007. "We fled from Kadaat village, which is over 300 kilometers [185 miles] away, after armed people attacked us four days ago," she recalls.
"We were attacked very early in the morning, and I saw several people killed, houses burnt, and property being carried away."
In the confusion, she was separated from her husband. "I [also] do not know the whereabouts of my elderly mother, who may have been caught up in the attack," she says, tears welling in her eyes. Thankfully, Fatma was able to gather all seven of her children before embarking on the perilous journey to the camp.
INTERNATIONAL RESPONSE:: Over the course of the 1990s, the Sudanese government's support for Iraq during the first Gulf War and various radical Islamist movements (including its hosting of Osama Bin Laden from 1992-96) resulted in increased isolation from Western governments. In 1993, the United States placed Sudan on its list of state sponsors of terrorism; it began imposing sanctions on the country in 1997. In September 2004, the U.S. government classified the ongoing atrocities in Darfur as genocide; the following March, the U.N. Security Council referred the case to the International Criminal Court (I.C.C.), a permanent court created in 1998 to prosecute war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide . In early 2009, the I.C.C. issued an arrest warrant for Bashir for war crimes and crimes against humanity (but not genocide). It was the first time that the I.C.C., established in 1998, had sought the arrest of a sitting head of state.
Darr Gebreselassie Period 2 Darfur-political motives
Pics Image of omar al basher http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jul/14/sudan.warcrimes1 Pic of bush and leader of SLA http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2006/07/images/20060725_p072506kh-0404-515h.html Pic of JEM Leader http://www.hirondelle.org/page-accueil/radio-miraya-south-sudan-26-12-11-jem-leader-killed-says-saf-spokesperson/
Primary Source: One camp has about 19,000 refugees, but in the entire region, there are 189,000 refugees, and the United Nations is planning for another 100,000 on top of that. One camp is the farthest north, which means it's in the driest part of the Sahara. Walking around it, you are struck by one thing. If this is better than where they came from, imagine what they are fleeing.
Pelley visits one of the villages burning in Sudan. The Sudanese government has unleashed African Arabs, called the Janjaweed, to wipe out tribal blacks. The name "Sudan," ironically, is Arabic, meaning "land of the blacks." But the Janjaweed is rewriting that history in blood. Janjaweed, by the way, has a translation, too. It means "evil on horseback."
John Prendergast, who was director of African Affairs at the National Security Council for the Clinton White House, says that these tribal blacks have "been subjected to one of the most brutal campaigns of ethnic cleansing that Africa has ever seen."
Prendergast is now with the International Crisis Group, a human rights organization documenting the disaster in Sudan and neighboring Chad.
"A government-made hurricane hit Darfur ... using these Janjaweed militias," Prendergast says. "And the human debris has washed up on the shores of Chad."
The refugees are from Sudan's western province, Darfur, which is about the size of Texas. Prendergast says the survivors lucky — many of them were chased across the desert border into Chad by the Janjaweed.
"The Janjaweed are like a grotesque mixture of the mafia and the Ku Klux Klan," says Prendergast. "These guys have a racist ideology that sees the Arab population as the supreme population that would like to see the subjugation of non-Arab peoples. They're criminal racketeers that have been supported very directly by the government to wage the war against the people of Darfur."
Survivors say the attacks usually start at dawn, with bombs falling from planes of the Sudanese Air Force.
"And then here come the Janjaweed on camel or on horseback," Prendergast says. "They come rolling into the town, shooting and torching the village, often bringing women to the side and raping women indiscriminately. And in order to ensure that the destruction is complete, the government either sends ground forces to oversee the operation, or the attack helicopters, which often are the most deadly things."
International Response: http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2004/10/sud-o16.html
Works Cited: Primary Source- http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18560_162-648277.html International Response- http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2004/10/sud-o16.html
Primary Source:"My heart was pounding, pain drilling like a jackhammer inside my skull," she writes in her terrifying new memoir, Tears of the Desert. "I knew they were going to kill me."
But she was wrong. They didn't kill her. She was thrown into a cell in a military camp and beaten. She was kicked in the stomach and hit repeatedly on the legs, hips and shoulders. "I fell to the floor and tried to cover my head with my arms. A boot made contact with my face, a searing white light shooting through my eye socket. Another kick to the head, this one smashing into the fingers of my hand with the crunch of breaking bone."
The beating continued, and then she was moved to a detention hut and painfully bound and gagged. That night, government soldiers and members of Sudan's dreaded Janjaweed militia came and raped her repeatedly as she cried to her god for help. The gang rapes continued for the next three days.
Even now, talking to Canwest News Service in the sanctuary of her London publisher's office, Halima Bashir can barely bring herself to talk about those days. She is shy and reserved, speaking so quietly, you sometimes must strain to hear her. But you also sense a steely resolve -- the resolve that compelled her to risk ostracism from her own Zaghawa tribal community by telling the truth about Darfur in her new book, written in collaboration with British journalist Damien Lewis and published in Canada by HarperCollins.
Fellow Zaghawan exiles were shocked when Bashir began speaking out publicly in 2006, a few months after her arrival in Britain.
"Even my closest friends didn't accept it. They said that everyone in the world knows what happened and that I added nothing to speak out about this -- that it was shameful to do so, that it was not our custom."
She is sad about this but unrepentant. Tears of the Desert is the first memoir by a woman caught up in the conflict in Darfur, and it's in bookshops because she refused to be silenced by members of her own community or intimidated by the Sudan's Arab rulers responsible for what she condemns as appalling acts of genocide.
"When I first came to this country [England], I found that people had heard about what is happening in Darfur and what is happening to my people. And I felt a little bit relieved and happy, because so many people did care about the war in Darfur and were going to help us and support us."
International Response: http://www.eyesondarfur.org/response.html
Works cited:"Survivor of Darfur Horrors Rejects Calls for Her Silence." Survivor of Darfur Horrors Rejects Calls for Her Silence. N.p., n.d. Web. 03 June 2013.
Daud Yahya Bolad do have great effect in Darfur destiny, as Yousif Kuwa Makki give SPLM/A the national dimensions, Bolad strip religious hatred from it. Bolad was born near Nyala around 1952, into a Fur family, he joined Muslims Brotherhood at secondary school, during his study at Faculty of Engineering, the University of Khartoum, he Chaired the then strong Student Union in 1975/6, he played a coordinating role between leadership of Muslims Brotherhood including Turabi and Ali Osman Muhammad Taha and its cells, planning protests against Nimeiri regime until the reconciliation of 1978 between Nimeiri and Turabi, dully Bolad was frequently detained by Nimeiri's security forces.
After graduation in 1978, he return to Nyala to start a carpentry firm with finance from an Islamic bank, he remained active in building the Muslim Brotherhood, renamed National Islamic Front in 1985 [6].
When Turabi joined Alsadiq Almahadi in the "Islamic trend cabinet" in 1988, Turabi silenced all NIF criticism of Libyan sponsoring the Arabs in Darfur [7].
Before that, both Faroq Ahmad Adam (Graduates) and Abdulgbar Adam Abdulkharim (Garsilla) resigned from NIF, on January 17, 1989 due to its hostile stands towards people of Darfur, as they mentioned [5], they said what is happening in Darfur is not armed robbery, but it is organized political and armed robbery, that it is:
1- Forcibly re-shaping Darfur, socially and culturally.
2- Arabizing authority in Darfur and Chad in order to support neighbor regime and ruling party in Sudan.
3- Using that to overthrow present Chadian authority and to push the Arabian revolution and opening training camps for that in Sudan.
That move caused crisis, which intensified when it become known that the above Arab tribes alliance against the Fur was tacitly backed by the central government, in which the NIF was a coalition partner. When NIF took power in 1989, Bolad met President Omar Hassan Al-Bashir with delegates of twenty one persons; Bashir told them that "South can separate but Darfur No" [8] this turned Bolad against his former colleagues as he defended his Fur tribesmen [6].
A continued to trail the Janjaweed southwest until they reached another town, where many of his relatives lived. The village had a cache of grenade launchers and automatic weapons, and initially managed to repulse the Janjaweed, killing at least 20 of them. However, the Janjaweed soon returned with military land cruisers, and overwhelmed the resistance. Nine people were killed, including A’s uncle, and the town was destroyed. After witnessing this, A collapsed on the ground, sobbing. Everything he knew was being destroyed, and there was nothing that he could do about it. “This is when we realized that the Janjaweed were working with the government,” he said. Eventually, A got up and began helping to bury the dead. He was too exhausted to continue chasing the Janjaweed, but later learned that they had continued west to the towns of Sulu and Morundu, where they killed 19 more people. “The next time I saw Morundu,” A said, “only one house was left standing.” When he got back to his home town, A finished burying the bodies, and then borrowed a friend’s horse to search for his family. Just outside of town, he encountered a group of people hiding in the bushes. One of them, a sheik, almost shot him, thinking that he was a returning Janjaweed fighter, but then directed him toward the village farms in the nearby mountains.
International response: http://www.eyesondarfur.org/response.html
There is in Darfur no end in sight for conflict, murder, rape, assaults on displaced persons camps, agricultural and village destruction, brutal extortion schemes, and continuing violent human displacement. The primary targets of this mayhem overseen by the National Islamic Front/National Congress Party regime in Khartoum continue to be primarily civilians from African tribal groups surviving tenuously in an increasingly chaotic Darfur; it is the cruelest of counter-insurgency strategies, since the military opponents of the regime are rebel groups that refuse to accept a peace agreement contrived in Doha (Qatar), not ordinary farmers and landholders. Moreover, for several years an increasing number of Arab tribal groups have been drawn into the fighting, often pitting one Arab group against another; this has produced rapidly growing “collateral damage” as Khartoum seeks to subdue Darfur by means of a war of attrition in which impunity, chaos, and inter-ethnic violence serve the regime’s ultimate military and political purposes. The insecurity consequent upon such polices threatens international relief organizations, many of which have already withdrawn or been expelled, and many more are contemplating withdrawal. The “Responsibility to Protect” (unanimously ratified in the UN General Assembly “Outcome Document” of September 2005 and UN Security Council Resolution 1674 [April 2006]) is among the most serious and conspicuous casualties of the Darfur genocide, and for evidence we need look no further than current international failure to halt Khartoum’s ongoing campaigns of civilian annihilation in the Nuba Mountains of South Kordofan and in Blue Nile. The impunity that sustains the Khartoum regime in its serial atrocity crimes in these two southern states grows directly out of the impunity that has prevailed from the beginning of major violence in Darfur. The deliberate destruction of agricultural production in the Nuba and Blue Nile should remind us of the systematic destruction of food-stocks and seed-stocks, the poisoning of water sources, and the looting or killing of livestock during the Darfur genocide. These are all actions that continue to be reported in Darfur, along with relentless aerial bombardment that directly violates the UN Security Council “demand” (Resolution 1591, March 2005) that all aerial military assaults in Darfur be halted. [2]
Work cited: http://www.sudanreeves.org/2013/04/20/the-darfur-genocide-at-ten-years-a-reckoning-19-april-2013/
There are also links to a number of Reeves' formal publications in newspapers, news magazines, academic journals, and human rights publications, as well as the texts of his Congressional testimony. Finally, a complete list of publications, testimony, and academic presentations is also linked, as is a grouping of profiles of his work.
Primary source~ "I have to write to you to get this out of my mind. I have seen these photos from a confidential report. I am not permitted to send them, nor do I wish on you the same dreams that I have as a result. ... Why are we sitting here letting this happen? This is not the doing of humans, this is the work of the devil. We as humans, all races, religions, colors, creeds, etc., have to stand up for what is right." - Brian Steidle Since 2003, when war broke out between the Sudanese government and Darfuri rebels, about 200,000 civilians have died. Another 2.5 million, a third of Darfur's population, have been driven from home. American food has helped stave off famine and U.S. diplomacy has fostered a partial cease-fire, but it has not been enough. --http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/world/2006-09-27-darfur-cover_x.htm?POE=NEWISVA
International response~ In the spring of 2004, the African Union (AU) assumed the leading role in international efforts to broker a resolution to the conflict in Darfur. Shortly afterwards, on May 25, 2004, the UN Security Council made its first statement on the situation in response to a report by the UN High Commissioner on Human Rights. The Council expressed its concern about the humanitarian crisis in Darfur and indiscriminate attacks on civilians, and expressed support for the mediation efforts of the AU. Outside Darfur, an international debate was gathering momentum about how to characterize the violence there. On March 19, 2004, Mukesh Kapila, the UN's Humanitarian Coordinator for Sudan, said attacks against civilians were 'close to ethnic cleansing' and claimed that 'the only difference between Rwanda [1994] and Darfur is the numbers involved of dead, tortured and raped.' Less than one month later, on the tenth anniversary of Rwanda's genocide, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan drew similar parallels when he said: '...the international community cannot stand idle [but] must be prepared to take swift and appropriate action. By 'action' ...I mean a continuum of steps, which may include military action'. --http://www.eyesondarfur.org/response.html
Pictures: 1.http://endgenocide.org/who-we-are/our-history/ Efforts to end genocide in present day. 2. http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2007/04/sudan-rebels-seek-talks-end-conflict-darfur 3. http://69.195.124.66/~artmusin/tag/genocide-prevention/ Picture #6
In August 2004, the African Union sent 150 Rwandan troops in to protect the ceasefire monitors; however, "their mandate did not include the protection of civilians."[63] Rwandan President Paul Kagame declared that "if it was established that the civilians are in danger then our forces will certainly intervene and use force to protect civilians"; however, such an effort would certainly take more than 150 troops. They were joined by 150 Nigerian troops later that month.[64][65] Peace talks, which had previously fallen apart in Addis Ababa on 17 July, were resumed on 23 August in Abuja. The talks reopened amid acrimony, with the SLA accusing the government of breaking promises[66] that it made for the little-respected April ceasefire. The UN's 30 day deadline expired on 29 August, after which the Secretary General reported on the state of the conflict. According to him, the situation "has resulted in some improvements on the ground but remains limited overall". In particular, he notes that the Janjaweed militias remain armed and continue to attack civilians (contrary to Resolution 1556), and militia disarmament has been limited to a "planned" 30% reduction in one particular militia, the Popular Defense Forces. He also notes that the Sudanese government's commitments regarding their own armed forces have been only partially implemented, with refugees reporting several attacks involving government forces.[67] He concludes that: "Stopping attacks against civilians and ensuring their protection is the responsibility of the Government of Sudan. The Government has not met this obligation fully, despite the commitments it has made and its obligations under resolution 1556 (2004). Attacks against civilians are continuing and the vast majority of armed militias has not been disarmed. Similarly, no concrete steps have been taken to bring to justice or even identify any of the militia leaders or the perpetrators of these attacks, allowing the violations of human rights and the basic laws of war to continue in a climate of impunity".and advises "a substantially increased international presence in Darfur" in order to "monitor" the conflict. However, he did not threaten or imply sanctions, which the UN had expressed its "intention to consider" in Resolution 1556.
Paige Holehouse Period 2 Methods of Darfur genocide Pictures: https://www.google.com/search?q=methods+of+the+darfur+genocide&biw=1920&bih=971&bav=on.2,or.r_qf.&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=nIetUYbDNIS7igLizIG4Cg#facrc=_&imgrc=XxYeURgQpR79SM%3A%3BeyFqgQZtQrhUdM%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.blackagendareport.com%252Fimages%252Fstories%252F039%252FCongoImpaled.jpg%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.thebellforum.com%252Fshowthread.php%253Ft%253D48138%3B463%3B296
International Response- http://responsibilitytoprotect.org/index.php/component/content/article/129-africa/1558-failure-to-protect-international-response-to-darfur-genocide
Period 5 Lasting Impact http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7luhsbBCMs
“The Arab League wanted us to do something. The minute we did something, the Arab League began criticizing us doing it. I think that, you know, two wars in Iraq and Afghanistan is a lot. I think that the problem we have in Pakistan, Egypt, Yemen — you go around the region. We could get engaged, by this standard, in all sorts of places. Sudan has been killing — the Sudanese government has been killing people in Darfur for years and years, and somehow all the major powers avoided thinking about it. I’m just suggesting to you there’s no standard here.” --Former House speaker Newt Gingrich (http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/post/libya-obama-and-the-tragedy-in-darfur/2011/03/23/ABlu34KB_blog.html)
SADFOC (Sudanese Association for the Defence of Freedom of Opinion and Conscience) Letter to All Member States of the African Union Peace and Security Council:
International Response- The Prosecutor v. Abdallah Banda Abakaer Nourain and Saleh Mohammed Jerbo Jamus On 17 August 2009, PTC I announced that had issued summons to appear for Abdallah Banda Abakaer Nourain (Banda) and Saleg Mohammed Jerbo Jamus (Jerbo). Banda and Jerbo are charged with three counts of war crimes allegedly committed during an attack carried out on 29 September 2007, against the African Union Mission in Sudan (AMIS), a peace-keeping mission stationed at the Haskanita Military Group Site (MGS Haskanita) in the locality of Umm Kadada, North Darfur. On 16 June 2010, the ICC announced the arrival of Banda and Jerbo at The Hague. The confirmation of charges hearing in the case was held on 8 December 2010 in the absence of the two suspects who had waived their right to be present. 89 victims participated in the confirmation hearing through their legal representatives. On 7 March 2011, PTC I confirmed the charges of war crimes against Banda and Jerbo, sending their case to trial. On 26 October, TC IV rejected a defense request for a temporary stay of proceedings.
Letter of victim from Darfur Genocide: El-Fadel Arbab told the auditorium full of students and teachers that he was 12 years old when the Janjaweed, a militia allied with the Sudanese government, attacked his village, killing women and children.
"We were very peaceful people … farmers. We had no schools, electricity, phones. But even if we live that way, we are happy, but they don't want to leave us alone," said Arbab.
Arbab was thrown into a burning building by the soldiers, he said, but managed to escape the flames and flee into the woods, where he hid in trees by day and walked at night until he reached the capital city, Khartoum.
Arbab's speech gave students a personal perspective on the genocide, a systematic effort by government forces to wipe out people in the western region of the country, killing 300,000 and displacing 2.6 million in a conflict that began in 2003, according to Amnesty International. Violence in the region still continues, despite the efforts of U.N. peacekeepers and the international attention.
Fortunately, Arbab was able to escape the violence, eventually reuniting with his mother and getting a visa to settle in Portland, Maine, with his brother. At first, his new life was haunted by the past, troubled by nightmares and memories of the war. "I locked myself in," said Arbab. "It was very difficult for me. But I felt like if I told my story, I would be able to move forward."
Learning English from books and tapes and attending a human rights conference in Washington, D.C., where he heard about the importance of survivors speaking out, encouraged him to begin speaking himself, Arbab said. He now speaks whenever he can — at schools, hospitals and community groups, and he is the vice president of Fur Cultural Revival Group, a community group that assists refugees from Darfur.
Arbab said that he hopes speaking about his experience will encourage the international community to bring the leaders responsible for the genocide to justice, to strengthen the U.N. presence in Darfur, and to help prevent future genocides.
"Hearing how people are suffering, it made me want to do something," said sophomore Nicole Schlask, who joined the high school's Darfur Awareness Committee with her sister Rebecca after hearing Arbab speak last year.
The committee, which started four years ago, meets once a week to discuss the current situation, plan fundraisers and organize events like the Thursday talk. Teachers Sean Crane and Lisa Wanzer, who advise the group and teach classes on genocide and modern world history, said that it formed after several students wanted to do more.
"The more I learned about it, the more I wanted to learn, to spread the word," said senior Mary Megan Hastings.
International Response: http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/60434/scott-straus/darfur-and-the-genocide-debate
Works Cited: http://50401952.blogspot.com/2010/11/sudanese-government-motives-in-darfur.html
Image 1:Sexually abused woman sitting outside of village http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/images/ibc_darfur_rape_girlonsticks.jpg
Image 2 Woman looking at the burned ruins of her former home in Darfur http://www.ushmm.org/genocide/take_action/images/uploads/Darfur_exhibit_woman-in-yellow_med.jpg
Image 3: People displaced by the genocide http://worldwithoutgenocide.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/IDPs-Sudan-300x199.jpg
Diary/ Letter from a displaced person in Darfur: "They are from Muzbat, but they no longer live in the village itself. Their homes are destroyed and they are too afraid to return. They are living in the wadi and under trees, in caves. But the well is the only water source for dozens of kilometers, so they must come to take water."
International Response:Barack Obama on Darfur in 2004
“The United States has a moral obligation anytime you see humanitarian catastrophes. When you see a genocide in Rwanda, Bosnia or in Darfur, that is a stain on all of us, that’s a stain on our souls…We can’t say ‘never again’ and then allow it to happen again, and as a president of the United States I don’t intend to abandon people or turn a blind eye to slaughter.”
"My home village of Korma and the villages surrounding it were burned last year, and 132 people were killed," said Ibrahim, who left Sudan 15 years ago to study economics in India. "All of them were related to me. These are people from my tribe."
International Response: http://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/accommodating-genocide-the-international-response-to-khartoums-new-strategy-for-darfur
International Response: "The on-going conflict in Darfur, Sudan, which started in 2003, was declared a "genocide" by United States Secretary of State Colin Powell on 9 September 2004 in testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.[4] Since that time however, no other permanent member of the United Nations Security Council has followed suit. In fact, in January 2005, an International Commission of Inquiry on Darfur, authorized by UN Security Council Resolution 1564 of 2004, issued a report to the Secretary-General stating that "the Government of the Sudan has not pursued a policy of genocide."[5] Nevertheless, the Commission cautioned that "The conclusion that no genocidal policy has been pursued and implemented in Darfur by the Government authorities, directly or through the militias under their control, should not be taken in any way as detracting from the gravity of the crimes perpetrated in that region. International offences such as the crimes against humanity and war crimes that have been committed in Darfur may be no less serious and heinous than genocide." United Nations
International Response: http://responsibilitytoprotect.org/index.php/component/content/article/129-africa/1558-failure-to-protect-international-response-to-darfur-genocide
Sam Vizvary
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Impact on Children
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https://www.msu.edu/~realfood/Darfur_children_sit_under_tree.jpg
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/46276000/jpg/_46276761_85436565.jpg
Primary Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeOT7wKZRTQ
International Primary Source: Unicef
UNICEF uses the following four strategic approaches to strengthen the protective environment for boys, girls and young people:
1. Promoting Justice for Children – through the provision of accessible, effective and quality protection services to children who are in contact with the law. UNICEF supports those children particularly vulnerable to abuse, neglect and violence by working with Special Protection Units at police stations and by strengthening social welfare services, and actors within the judiciary.
2. Support to Community-based Programmes for the Protection of Children
Affected by Armed Conflict – This includes preventing the recruitment and use of children by armed forces or armed groups; supporting the release and reintegration of children who are still associated with armed forces and groups; preventing and responding to violence against children, including gender-based violence; protecting children from harmful traditional practices; protecting children from abduction, including by the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA); providing psychosocial support services, family tracing and reunification of separated and unaccompanied children; providing family-based care services for children without parental care, including children who live and work on the streets; strengthening community support groups to enhance the protection of children; and supporting the provision of mine risk education to protect children from landmines and explosive remnants of war.
3. Advocacy and support for the implementation of the Child Act; the protection of children associated with armed forces and groups; introduction of social a protection programme as a poverty reduction measure; development of the civil registration system with a focus on birth registration; and the protection and fulfilment of children’s rights.
4. Capacity development of key actors within the social welfare, legal systems and the judiciary, lawmakers and law enforcement agents at national and state level, communitybased child protection workers, children, young people, families and communities.
The programme has contributed to the following key achievements:
• Enactment and dissemination of the Child Act. More than 200,000 government officials, community members and children have received information on the Act and the use of the framework to enhance the legal protection of children.
• Strengthened social welfare system through the training of social workers in the Ministry of Gender, Child and Social Welfare and the State Ministries of Social Development.
• In the last five years, UNICEF has supported the release and reintegration of more than 3,500 children who have been associated with armed forces or groups.
• In the last two years more than 50,000 children and young people affected by armed conflict have received protection services, including psychosocial support.
• In the last two years more than 275,000 key actors in child protection in the national and state government, UN, international and national NGOs, community-based organizations, faith-based organizations and communities have received information and education on how best to protect children from landmines, violence, abuse and
exploitation
Brooke Levine
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Pictures:
1. http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2007/12/27/world/27darfur-600.jpg
2. http://thewirehead.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/darfur-sudan-child.jpg
3. http://ww4report.com/sites/ww4report.com/files/images//darfur.jpg
Primary Source:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kQSg0z6vEA
International Primary Source:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzXazufqqZE&feature=player_embedded
Noah Perry
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Pictures:
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-5LOzLUsHnO8/TlqmGQJI8BI/AAAAAAAAA2o/VkrSPfTmA_w/s640/children-suffering-in-darfur_50.jpg
http://cdn2-b.examiner.com/sites/default/files/styles/image_content_width/hash/67/48/6748a0062ef146aea4a039012f02a0d9.jpg?itok=pZy1DrHo
http://studyingmystudies.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/child.jpg
Primary Source:
http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/sudan_34674.html
*click "view the video diary"
International Primary Source from RedCross (survivor's story):
http://www.redcross.org.uk/What-we-do/Emergency-response/Past-emergency-appeals/Darfur-Crisis-Appeal-2007/Survivors-stories/Halimas-story
“When I first got to the camp the situation was really bad.
“Things have got better with help from the Red Cross. We receive distributions of food and things for the home, like blankets. But we really need clothes and some new cooking pots.
“When the children get sick I’m able to take them to the Red Cross. I took Fatma to the feeding centre because she was poorly. I received some treatment for her, and some special food to make her well again.”
Jordan Schore
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Pictures:
http://sammi1017.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/206darfur11.jpg
http://www.journal.dnd.ca/vo6/no2/images/Beardsley-1-IMG_0757.jpg
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/P2pwy4ibxQU/Twiw0LHsWI/AAAAAAAAAB8/Oeyhf7AosXU/s1600/darfur3.jpg
Primary Source:
http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=Ml10CnaICk8&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DMl10CnaICk8
International Primary Source:
http://www.uusc.org/darfur
June Assawamahakun
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Pictures:
http://www.zionism-israel.com/darfur.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8b/Darfur_report_-_Page_6_Image_1.jpg
http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2009/3/4/1236165758067/Darfur-atrocities-An-infa-005.jpg
Primary Source: War Wounds (Audio)
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/graphics/darfur/flash.htm
International Response:
https://internationalmedicalcorps.org/sslpage.aspx?pid=1942
Mark Schweitzer
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Pictures -
http://tinyurl.com/pl5o7fv
http://tinyurl.com/p638s9h
http://tinyurl.com/q8lj9lo
Primary Source - UNICEF Journal Entry - Kristen Geary
http://tinyurl.com/5atxm9
International Response - Video -
http://tinyurl.com/o5jwafn
Jordan Eisner
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Pictures:
http://jspivey.wikispaces.com/file/view/darfur_starving_girl.jpg/34256785/darfur_starving_girl.jpg
http://kcoj.edublogs.org/files/2007/10/darfur_idps_children_sitting.jpg
http://www.international.ucla.edu/media/images/darfur-child.jpg
Primary source: El Fadel Arbab tells of his experience in the genocide as a child
"Early one morning, when I was 12 years old, the Janjaweed surrounded my village in the Zalingei area of western Darfur. They started attacking people, killing them in their homes and setting their houses on fire. They slaughtered children.
Burnt and soaking wet, I ran into the woods and climbed a tree. I stayed there all day. From my perch, I could see the Janjaweed and the Sudanese military killing people. Young boys, they beheaded immediately. Girls they killed and dumped in the river. Pregnant women had their bellies cut open with machetes and their breasts slashed."
International Response:
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB335/Document4.PDF
Alex Velazquez
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Images:
http://stopgenocidenow.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/20061125_CHAD_1_190.jpg
http://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/media/images/photographs/2004_Darfur_Sudan.jpg
http://img4.allvoices.com/thumbs/image/609/480/86467493-sudanese-army.jpg
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Primary Source:
http://www.humanitarianstudies.no/2013/04/21/poc-the-politics-of-counting-rape-in-darfur/
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International Response:
http://www.docstoc.com/docs/91518105/Investors-Against-Genocide-Draw-the-line-at-investing-in-genocide-FOR-IMMEDIATE-RELEASE-Susan-Morgan---Investors-Against-Genocide-001-617-797-0451
Also More Information at:
http://www.InvestorsAgainstGenocide.org/UNGCandPetroChina
Jordan Carvel
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Pictures:
http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/46277000/jpg/_46277287_-30.jpg
http://news.ripley.za.net/wp-content/plugins/rss-poster/cache/f25a4_130306173038-darfur-av-oped-bashir-horizontal-gallery.jpg
http://worldwithoutgenocide.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Janjaweed1.jpg
Primary Source:
"Currently, a peace deal between the government and a major insurgent group is coming unglued. With the advent of the dry season, the Sudanese army and the fractious Darfur rebels are primed for a new military showdown. And, paradoxically, negotiators on the ground worry that a well-intentioned human-rights campaign, launched by Western activists on behalf of Darfur's civilians, may actually be locking in the violence. With Khartoum tarred as the bully, there is scant hope for any last-minute dialogue before the offensives begin."
- Paul Salopek
International Response:
http://youtu.be/LlIL2gmXGg4
Shane Fenske
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*Pictures*
-http://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/media/images/photographs/2011_Darfur_momanddaughterintent.jpg
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http://wa1.www.unesco.org/archives/hrgnews/images/subjects/102008-2_darfur.jpg
-http://sites.duke.edu/tlge/files/2011/02/Darfur3cut1.jpeg
*Primary Source*
- http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/Opinion/2010/0301/Genocide-in-Darfur-How-Sudan-covers-it-up
*International Response*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzXazufqqZE&feature=player_embedded
Ilay Soffer
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Pictures:
http://intrepidliberaljournal.blogspot.com/2006_09_01_archive.html
https://www.google.com/search?q=darfur+genocide+impact+on+children&bav=on.2,or.r_qf.&bvm=bv.47244034,d.cGE&biw=1517&bih=714&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=LeinUaz2AqiUigLMhoFg#facrc=_&imgrc=V4xdli2nnmy40M%3A%3B1qbj2YpOLtGQ4M%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fi32.photobucket.com%252Falbums%252Fd9%252FKMartel1311%252Fdarfursudboy.jpg%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.myspace.com%252Fbehumancampaign%3B353%3B253
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/sudan_genocide_2.jpg
Primary Source:
http://news.uchicago.edu/multimedia/drawings-genocide-darfur-through-eyes-its-children
International Response:
http://www.sudanreeves.org/2008/03/21/failure-to-protect-international-response-to-darfur-genocide/
Skyler Blatt
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Images:
http://www.iactivism.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/30nov_adamfamily.jpg
http://www.worldvision.com.au/Libraries/1_1_2_1_0/1_1_2_1_0_1.jpg
http://www.bonfireimpact.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/darfurpic.png
Primary Source:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kjb6psOunuc
Secondary Source:
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines07/0111-01.htm
Kendall Yocum
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Primary Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPv2x-fW_q0
International Response: http://www.eyesondarfur.org/response.html
Pictures:
http://www.google.com/search?q=darfur+genocide+children&client=safari&rls=en&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=eAuoUcGMJKmcjAKPtoGoCw&ved=0CAoQ_AUoAQ&biw=1394&bih=780#facrc=_&imgrc=xBxvko4ad2BT9M%3A%3BKQ2wnWM267sQHM%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fajws.org%252Fassets%252Fimages%252Fpress_photos%252Fdarfur%252Fchildren-south-darfur-m-emry.jpg%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fajws.org%252Femergencies%252Fphotos.html%3B3008%3B2000
http://www.google.com/search?q=darfur+genocide+children&client=safari&rls=en&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=eAuoUcGMJKmcjAKPtoGoCw&ved=0CAoQ_AUoAQ&biw=1394&bih=780#facrc=_&imgrc=mnJP4AW5G9fK_M%3A%3B6vT0A258RZw0FM%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.globaled.uconn.edu%252FGlobalEdI%252FFall06%252FCC-scenario_files%252Fimage003.jpg%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.globaled.uconn.edu%252FGlobalEdI%252FSpring07%252FCC-scenario.htm%3B200%3B262
http://www.google.com/search?q=darfur+genocide+children&client=safari&rls=en&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=eAuoUcGMJKmcjAKPtoGoCw&ved=0CAoQ_AUoAQ&biw=1394&bih=780#facrc=_&imgrc=-nxsGlRuTL2PtM%3A%3B6OlYuoYYFBEjWM%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fvideogum.com%252Fimg%252Fthumbnails%252Fphotos%252Fstarving_children.jpg%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fvideogum.com%252F11303%252Fthe_children_of_darfur_agree_w%252Feveryones-a-critic%252F%3B480%3B329
julietta selivanov
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primary source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdR9SB4yPOo
international response: http://worldwithoutgenocide.org/genocides-and-conflicts/darfur-genocide
pictures: http://www.google.com/search?q=darfur+genocide+children&client=safari&rls=en&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=cA-oUee-K-n6iwKv84HQDQ&ved=0CAoQ_AUoAQ&biw=1394&bih=780#facrc=_&imgrc=E2XA9DS_2bU_mM%3A%3B1yF5LSWjBveMWM%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Flfort.files.wordpress.com%252F2010%252F03%252F1-darfur-girl.jpg%253Fw%253D450%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Flfort.wordpress.com%252Fpage%252F3%252F%3B410%3B273
http://www.google.com/search?q=darfur+genocide+children&client=safari&rls=en&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=cA-oUee-K-n6iwKv84HQDQ&ved=0CAoQ_AUoAQ&biw=1394&bih=780#facrc=_&imgrc=IhH5YnypgZInSM%3A%3BPUoC6wq3RxZzAM%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.stroll4sudan.org%252Fdafur_kids.jpg%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.stroll4sudan.org%252Finfo_on_the_genocide.htm%3B250%3B188
http://www.google.com/search?q=darfur+genocide+children&client=safari&rls=en&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=cA-oUee-K-n6iwKv84HQDQ&ved=0CAoQ_AUoAQ&biw=1394&bih=780#facrc=_&imgrc=APHTEVgy581tHM%3A%3BTpWmg9b-4vLdGM%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fworldwithoutgenocide.org%252Fwp-content%252Fuploads%252F2010%252F01%252FIDPs-Sudan.jpg%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fworldwithoutgenocide.org%252Fgenocides-and-conflicts%252Fdarfur-genocide%3B1600%3B1063
Nica Ramy
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PICTURES::: http://www.danchurchaid.org/var/storage/images/media/billeder2/lande/cambodia/drawing_children_prison/607075-1-eng-GB/drawing_children_prison.jpg
http://www.raptitude.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/child-darfur.jpg
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PRIMARY SOURCE:::
At the camp, World Vision staff work tirelessly, distributing food rations from the World Food Program (WFP) to those in need.
However, getting the food rations to distribute is becoming increasingly difficult. Recently, World Food Program trucks have become a target of violence. Armed assailants have hijacked 60 trucks since January and killed five WFP drivers during March and early April.
Despite the challenges of increased instances of violence, as well as rising food and transportation costs, World Vision staff members continue to provide ongoing food distributions to more than 400,000 displaced Darfurians within this and 20 other camps in the region.
Resources are constantly stretched as the fighting continues and thousands are fleeing their villages in search of safety. According to the United Nations, 2.4 million people in Darfur are displaced. That's one-third of the region's population. (View a U.N. profile [pdf] of the humanitarian crisis.)
Since December 2007, World Vision has registered more than 18,000 new arrivals at the Al Salaam camp. Fatma — who was driven from her village after a militia attack — and thousands like her seek safety in numbers, food aid, and care that camps try to provide.
Fatma's story
Fatma was understandably distraught when she arrived at the Al Salaam camp.
With a tremble in her voice, Fatma recounts how her family was scattered after heavily armed militia attacked their village in June 2007. "We fled from Kadaat village, which is over 300 kilometers [185 miles] away, after armed people attacked us four days ago," she recalls.
"We were attacked very early in the morning, and I saw several people killed, houses burnt, and property being carried away."
In the confusion, she was separated from her husband. "I [also] do not know the whereabouts of my elderly mother, who may have been caught up in the attack," she says, tears welling in her eyes. Thankfully, Fatma was able to gather all seven of her children before embarking on the perilous journey to the camp.
INTERNATIONAL RESPONSE::
Over the course of the 1990s, the Sudanese government's support for Iraq during the first Gulf War and various radical Islamist movements (including its hosting of Osama Bin Laden from 1992-96) resulted in increased isolation from Western governments. In 1993, the United States placed Sudan on its list of state sponsors of terrorism; it began imposing sanctions on the country in 1997. In September 2004, the U.S. government classified the ongoing atrocities in Darfur as genocide; the following March, the U.N. Security Council referred the case to the International Criminal Court (I.C.C.), a permanent court created in 1998 to prosecute war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide . In early 2009, the I.C.C. issued an arrest warrant for Bashir for war crimes and crimes against humanity (but not genocide). It was the first time that the I.C.C., established in 1998, had sought the arrest of a sitting head of state.
Darr Gebreselassie
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Darfur-political motives
Pics
Image of omar al basher http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jul/14/sudan.warcrimes1
Pic of bush and leader of SLA http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2006/07/images/20060725_p072506kh-0404-515h.html
Pic of JEM Leader http://www.hirondelle.org/page-accueil/radio-miraya-south-sudan-26-12-11-jem-leader-killed-says-saf-spokesperson/
Primary source http://beta.genocidepreventionnow.org/Portals/0/docs/darfur_interview.pdf
International response http://www.eyesondarfur.org/response.html
Destiny De ALba
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Pictures:
http://www.nyc.com/image/users/blogs/6269.jpg
http://worldwithoutgenocide.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Janjaweed1-300x225.jpg
http://genocide-itsneveragoodthing.wikispaces.com/file/view/darfur-poster.jpg/143335261/darfur-poster.jpg
Primary Source:
One camp has about 19,000 refugees, but in the entire region, there are 189,000 refugees, and the United Nations is planning for another 100,000 on top of that. One camp is the farthest north, which means it's in the driest part of the Sahara. Walking around it, you are struck by one thing. If this is better than where they came from, imagine what they are fleeing.
Pelley visits one of the villages burning in Sudan. The Sudanese government has unleashed African Arabs, called the Janjaweed, to wipe out tribal blacks. The name "Sudan," ironically, is Arabic, meaning "land of the blacks." But the Janjaweed is rewriting that history in blood. Janjaweed, by the way, has a translation, too. It means "evil on horseback."
John Prendergast, who was director of African Affairs at the National Security Council for the Clinton White House, says that these tribal blacks have "been subjected to one of the most brutal campaigns of ethnic cleansing that Africa has ever seen."
Prendergast is now with the International Crisis Group, a human rights organization documenting the disaster in Sudan and neighboring Chad.
"A government-made hurricane hit Darfur ... using these Janjaweed militias," Prendergast says. "And the human debris has washed up on the shores of Chad."
The refugees are from Sudan's western province, Darfur, which is about the size of Texas. Prendergast says the survivors lucky — many of them were chased across the desert border into Chad by the Janjaweed.
"The Janjaweed are like a grotesque mixture of the mafia and the Ku Klux Klan," says Prendergast. "These guys have a racist ideology that sees the Arab population as the supreme population that would like to see the subjugation of non-Arab peoples. They're criminal racketeers that have been supported very directly by the government to wage the war against the people of Darfur."
Survivors say the attacks usually start at dawn, with bombs falling from planes of the Sudanese Air Force.
"And then here come the Janjaweed on camel or on horseback," Prendergast says. "They come rolling into the town, shooting and torching the village, often bringing women to the side and raping women indiscriminately. And in order to ensure that the destruction is complete, the government either sends ground forces to oversee the operation, or the attack helicopters, which often are the most deadly things."
International Response:
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2004/10/sud-o16.html
Works Cited:
Primary Source- http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18560_162-648277.html
International Response- http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2004/10/sud-o16.html
Stephanie Alva
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Pictures:
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/~reinh20j/jaya2/janjaweed.png
http://www.jewishworldwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/620janjaweed.jpg
http://jdasovic.files.wordpress.com/2007/09/darfur_soldier_refugee_camp1.jpg
Primary Source:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5ywKAZLuOw
International Response:
http://youtu.be/LlIL2gmXGg4
Works Cited:
Casey Hynes
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Photos:
http://theird.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/sudanese-girl-and-vulture.jpg
http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2012/4/1/1333286455769/Children-hide-from-Sudan--008.jpg
http://justiceinconflict.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/darfur_genocide.jpg?w=464&h=343
Primary Source:"My heart was pounding, pain drilling like a jackhammer inside my skull," she writes in her terrifying new memoir, Tears of the Desert. "I knew they were going to kill me."
But she was wrong. They didn't kill her. She was thrown into a cell in a military camp and beaten. She was kicked in the stomach and hit repeatedly on the legs, hips and shoulders. "I fell to the floor and tried to cover my head with my arms. A boot made contact with my face, a searing white light shooting through my eye socket. Another kick to the head, this one smashing into the fingers of my hand with the crunch of breaking bone."
The beating continued, and then she was moved to a detention hut and painfully bound and gagged. That night, government soldiers and members of Sudan's dreaded Janjaweed militia came and raped her repeatedly as she cried to her god for help. The gang rapes continued for the next three days.
Even now, talking to Canwest News Service in the sanctuary of her London publisher's office, Halima Bashir can barely bring herself to talk about those days. She is shy and reserved, speaking so quietly, you sometimes must strain to hear her. But you also sense a steely resolve -- the resolve that compelled her to risk ostracism from her own Zaghawa tribal community by telling the truth about Darfur in her new book, written in collaboration with British journalist Damien Lewis and published in Canada by HarperCollins.
Fellow Zaghawan exiles were shocked when Bashir began speaking out publicly in 2006, a few months after her arrival in Britain.
"Even my closest friends didn't accept it. They said that everyone in the world knows what happened and that I added nothing to speak out about this -- that it was shameful to do so, that it was not our custom."
She is sad about this but unrepentant. Tears of the Desert is the first memoir by a woman caught up in the conflict in Darfur, and it's in bookshops because she refused to be silenced by members of her own community or intimidated by the Sudan's Arab rulers responsible for what she condemns as appalling acts of genocide.
"When I first came to this country [England], I found that people had heard about what is happening in Darfur and what is happening to my people. And I felt a little bit relieved and happy, because so many people did care about the war in Darfur and were going to help us and support us."
International Response: http://www.eyesondarfur.org/response.html
Works cited:"Survivor of Darfur Horrors Rejects Calls for Her Silence." Survivor of Darfur Horrors Rejects Calls for Her Silence. N.p., n.d. Web. 03 June 2013.
Max von Braun
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http://www.seanet.com/~jimxc/Politics/Pictures/Darfur_Google_s.jpg
http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/files/2009/05/lee-darfur-news-conference-5-19-09.jpg
Due to ecological, economical and political reasons Mahrya Arab tribe wage war in 1985 against the Zagawa, skirmishes used to take place till 1989 when 27 Arab tribes lodged a war against Fur tribe with an aim to dislodge them from their fertilized land around Jebel Mara, that war had racial and political roots [5], it continued till the military coup d`état in June 30, 1989 carried by the National Islamic Front (NIF) led by President Omar Hassan Albashir under the guidance of Dr. Hassan Abdalla Alturabi.
Daud Yahya Bolad Factor 1989/90
Daud Yahya Bolad do have great effect in Darfur destiny, as Yousif Kuwa Makki give SPLM/A the national dimensions, Bolad strip religious hatred from it. Bolad was born near Nyala around 1952, into a Fur family, he joined Muslims Brotherhood at secondary school, during his study at Faculty of Engineering, the University of Khartoum, he Chaired the then strong Student Union in 1975/6, he played a coordinating role between leadership of Muslims Brotherhood including Turabi and Ali Osman Muhammad Taha and its cells, planning protests against Nimeiri regime until the reconciliation of 1978 between Nimeiri and Turabi, dully Bolad was frequently detained by Nimeiri's security forces.
After graduation in 1978, he return to Nyala to start a carpentry firm with finance from an Islamic bank, he remained active in building the Muslim Brotherhood, renamed National Islamic Front in 1985 [6].
When Turabi joined Alsadiq Almahadi in the "Islamic trend cabinet" in 1988, Turabi silenced all NIF criticism of Libyan sponsoring the Arabs in Darfur [7].
Before that, both Faroq Ahmad Adam (Graduates) and Abdulgbar Adam Abdulkharim (Garsilla) resigned from NIF, on January 17, 1989 due to its hostile stands towards people of Darfur, as they mentioned [5], they said what is happening in Darfur is not armed robbery, but it is organized political and armed robbery, that it is:
1- Forcibly re-shaping Darfur, socially and culturally.
2- Arabizing authority in Darfur and Chad in order to support neighbor regime and ruling party in Sudan.
3- Using that to overthrow present Chadian authority and to push the Arabian revolution and opening training camps for that in Sudan.
That move caused crisis, which intensified when it become known that the above Arab tribes alliance against the Fur was tacitly backed by the central government, in which the NIF was a coalition partner. When NIF took power in 1989, Bolad met President Omar Hassan Al-Bashir with delegates of twenty one persons; Bashir told them that "South can separate but Darfur No" [8] this turned Bolad against his former colleagues as he defended his Fur tribesmen [6].
http://www.darfurna.com/Darfur/Darfur.htm
Alex Bergman
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Political Motives
Pictures:
1. http://www.ecohustler.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/janjaweed.gif
2.http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/sudan_genocide_2.jpg
3.http://love4thesoul.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/darfur_grarup.jpg
A continued to trail the Janjaweed southwest until they reached another town,
where many of his relatives lived. The village had a cache of grenade launchers
and automatic weapons, and initially managed to repulse the Janjaweed, killing
at least 20 of them. However, the Janjaweed soon returned with military land
cruisers, and overwhelmed the resistance. Nine people were killed, including A’s
uncle, and the town was destroyed.
After witnessing this, A collapsed on the ground, sobbing. Everything he knew
was being destroyed, and there was nothing that he could do about it.
“This is when we realized that the Janjaweed were working with the government,”
he said.
Eventually, A got up and began helping to bury the dead. He was too exhausted
to continue chasing the Janjaweed, but later learned that they had continued
west to the towns of Sulu and Morundu, where they killed 19 more people. “The
next time I saw Morundu,” A said, “only one house was left standing.”
When he got back to his home town, A finished burying the bodies, and then
borrowed a friend’s horse to search for his family.
Just outside of town, he encountered a group of people hiding in the bushes.
One of them, a sheik, almost shot him, thinking that he was a returning
Janjaweed fighter, but then directed him toward the village farms in the nearby
mountains.
International response:
http://www.eyesondarfur.org/response.html
Sources:
http://beta.genocidepreventionnow.org/Portals/0/docs/darfur_interview.pdf
Guyler Levy
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Political Motives
Primary Source:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrFruWLcH74
International Response:
http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2004/sc8160.doc.htm
Pictures: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/picture_gallery/06/africa_janjaweed_in_chad/html/2.stm
Aren Barnes
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Political Motives
Primary Source:
http://unamid.unmissions.org/Portals/UNAMID/DDPD%20English.pdf
International Response:
http://www.diis.dk/sw98980.asp
Pictures:
http://www.e-ir.info/wp-content/uploads/image/Darfur1.jpg
http://www2.pslweb.org/images/content/pagebuilder/52137.jpg
http://cf1.netmegs.com/memestream/somalia.jpg
Brittney Collinson
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6-3-13
Political motives of Darfur Genocide
Photos:
http://www.ushmm.org/genocide/take_action/gallery/video/1
http://www.ushmm.org/genocide/take_action/gallery/photos
http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/BERKELEY-Stunning-photographs-show-the-horror-2522017.php
There is in Darfur no end in sight for conflict, murder, rape, assaults on displaced persons camps, agricultural and village destruction, brutal extortion schemes, and continuing violent human displacement. The primary targets of this mayhem overseen by the National Islamic Front/National Congress Party regime in Khartoum continue to be primarily civilians from African tribal groups surviving tenuously in an increasingly chaotic Darfur; it is the cruelest of counter-insurgency strategies, since the military opponents of the regime are rebel groups that refuse to accept a peace agreement contrived in Doha (Qatar), not ordinary farmers and landholders. Moreover, for several years an increasing number of Arab tribal groups have been drawn into the fighting, often pitting one Arab group against another; this has produced rapidly growing “collateral damage” as Khartoum seeks to subdue Darfur by means of a war of attrition in which impunity, chaos, and inter-ethnic violence serve the regime’s ultimate military and political purposes. The insecurity consequent upon such polices threatens international relief organizations, many of which have already withdrawn or been expelled, and many more are contemplating withdrawal.
The “Responsibility to Protect” (unanimously ratified in the UN General Assembly “Outcome Document” of September 2005 and UN Security Council Resolution 1674 [April 2006]) is among the most serious and conspicuous casualties of the Darfur genocide, and for evidence we need look no further than current international failure to halt Khartoum’s ongoing campaigns of civilian annihilation in the Nuba Mountains of South Kordofan and in Blue Nile. The impunity that sustains the Khartoum regime in its serial atrocity crimes in these two southern states grows directly out of the impunity that has prevailed from the beginning of major violence in Darfur. The deliberate destruction of agricultural production in the Nuba and Blue Nile should remind us of the systematic destruction of food-stocks and seed-stocks, the poisoning of water sources, and the looting or killing of livestock during the Darfur genocide. These are all actions that continue to be reported in Darfur, along with relentless aerial bombardment that directly violates the UN Security Council “demand” (Resolution 1591, March 2005) that all aerial military assaults in Darfur be halted. [2]
Work cited:
http://www.sudanreeves.org/2013/04/20/the-darfur-genocide-at-ten-years-a-reckoning-19-april-2013/
There are also links to a number of Reeves' formal publications in newspapers, news magazines, academic journals, and human rights publications, as well as the texts of his Congressional testimony. Finally, a complete list of publications, testimony, and academic presentations is also linked, as is a grouping of profiles of his work.
Vanessa Manfredi
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IMPACT ON CHILDREN
PICTURES:
http://ww4report.com/sites/ww4report.com/files/images//darfur.jpg
http://e08595.medialib.glogster.com/media/0a/0a6c0ea4bf8258d269b4e92ae80ed909a2650d523c8c78e10111996b2cc58e42/sriimg20070320-7637688-0-1.jpg
http://worldwithoutgenocide.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Darfuri-Children.jpg
PRIMARY SOURCE:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMBZpGRF4tg
INTERNATIONAL RESPONSE:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OIozGm2QPQ
Lily Giedd
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Darfur genocide- Methods
Pictures~
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2012/12/12/13-Dec-12-World-View-Darfur-war-may-explode-again-soon-into-full-scale-genocide
http://www.dosomething.org/blog/chatterbox/the-killing-fields-the-genocide-cambodia
http://worldwithoutgenocide.org/genocides-and-conflicts/darfur-genocide
Primary source~
"I have to write to you to get this out of my mind. I have seen these photos from a confidential report. I am not permitted to send them, nor do I wish on you the same dreams that I have as a result. ... Why are we sitting here letting this happen? This is not the doing of humans, this is the work of the devil. We as humans, all races, religions, colors, creeds, etc., have to stand up for what is right." - Brian Steidle
Since 2003, when war broke out between the Sudanese government and Darfuri rebels, about 200,000 civilians have died. Another 2.5 million, a third of Darfur's population, have been driven from home. American food has helped stave off famine and U.S. diplomacy has fostered a partial cease-fire, but it has not been enough.
--http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/world/2006-09-27-darfur-cover_x.htm?POE=NEWISVA
International response~
In the spring of 2004, the African Union (AU) assumed the leading role in international efforts to broker a resolution to the conflict in Darfur. Shortly afterwards, on May 25, 2004, the UN Security Council made its first statement on the situation in response to a report by the UN High Commissioner on Human Rights. The Council expressed its concern about the humanitarian crisis in Darfur and indiscriminate attacks on civilians, and expressed support for the mediation efforts of the AU. Outside Darfur, an international debate was gathering momentum about how to characterize the violence there. On March 19, 2004, Mukesh Kapila, the UN's Humanitarian Coordinator for Sudan, said attacks against civilians were 'close to ethnic cleansing' and claimed that 'the only difference between Rwanda [1994] and Darfur is the numbers involved of dead, tortured and raped.' Less than one month later, on the tenth anniversary of Rwanda's genocide, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan drew similar parallels when he said: '...the international community cannot stand idle [but] must be prepared to take swift and appropriate action. By 'action' ...I mean a continuum of steps, which may include military action'.
--http://www.eyesondarfur.org/response.html
Alanna Price
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Legacy
Pictures:
1.http://endgenocide.org/who-we-are/our-history/
Efforts to end genocide in present day.
2. http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2007/04/sudan-rebels-seek-talks-end-conflict-darfur
3. http://69.195.124.66/~artmusin/tag/genocide-prevention/
Picture #6
Primary Source:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVxdivfS5jU
International Response:
In August 2004, the African Union sent 150 Rwandan troops in to protect the ceasefire monitors; however, "their mandate did not include the protection of civilians."[63] Rwandan President Paul Kagame declared that "if it was established that the civilians are in danger then our forces will certainly intervene and use force to protect civilians"; however, such an effort would certainly take more than 150 troops. They were joined by 150 Nigerian troops later that month.[64][65]
Peace talks, which had previously fallen apart in Addis Ababa on 17 July, were resumed on 23 August in Abuja. The talks reopened amid acrimony, with the SLA accusing the government of breaking promises[66] that it made for the little-respected April ceasefire.
The UN's 30 day deadline expired on 29 August, after which the Secretary General reported on the state of the conflict. According to him, the situation "has resulted in some improvements on the ground but remains limited overall". In particular, he notes that the Janjaweed militias remain armed and continue to attack civilians (contrary to Resolution 1556), and militia disarmament has been limited to a "planned" 30% reduction in one particular militia, the Popular Defense Forces. He also notes that the Sudanese government's commitments regarding their own armed forces have been only partially implemented, with refugees reporting several attacks involving government forces.[67] He concludes that:
"Stopping attacks against civilians and ensuring their protection is the responsibility of the Government of Sudan. The Government has not met this obligation fully, despite the commitments it has made and its obligations under resolution 1556 (2004). Attacks against civilians are continuing and the vast majority of armed militias has not been disarmed. Similarly, no concrete steps have been taken to bring to justice or even identify any of the militia leaders or the perpetrators of these attacks, allowing the violations of human rights and the basic laws of war to continue in a climate of impunity".and advises "a substantially increased international presence in Darfur" in order to "monitor" the conflict. However, he did not threaten or imply sanctions, which the UN had expressed its "intention to consider" in Resolution 1556.
Chad Patterson
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Methods
Primary Source on Methods:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7luhsbBCMs&noredirect=1
Pictures:
http://www.blackagendareport.com/images/stories/128/Darfur.jpg
http://worldwithoutgenocide.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Janjaweed1.jpg
http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/sk.jpg
International Response:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/apr/20/omar-al-bashir-darfur-responsibility
(video)
Paige Holehouse
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Methods of Darfur genocide
Pictures:
https://www.google.com/search?q=methods+of+the+darfur+genocide&biw=1920&bih=971&bav=on.2,or.r_qf.&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=nIetUYbDNIS7igLizIG4Cg#facrc=_&imgrc=XxYeURgQpR79SM%3A%3BeyFqgQZtQrhUdM%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.blackagendareport.com%252Fimages%252Fstories%252F039%252FCongoImpaled.jpg%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.thebellforum.com%252Fshowthread.php%253Ft%253D48138%3B463%3B296
http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Observer/Pix/pictures/2006/12/09/darfur1.jpg
http://www.justtotheleft.com/uploaded_images/darfur_poster_400-784092.jpg
Primary source on methods:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCeKK8F3gRY
International response:
http://www.eyesondarfur.org/response.html
Cole Bowers
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Darfur- Methods
Pictures- http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/sk.jpg
http://worldwithoutgenocide.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Village-Burning.jpg
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/~reinh20j/jaya2/janjaweed.png
Primary Source- http://worldwithoutgenocide.org/genocides-and-conflicts/darfur-genocide
International Response- http://responsibilitytoprotect.org/index.php/component/content/article/129-africa/1558-failure-to-protect-international-response-to-darfur-genocide
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7luhsbBCMs
“The Arab League wanted us to do something. The minute we did something, the Arab League began criticizing us doing it. I think that, you know, two wars in Iraq and Afghanistan is a lot. I think that the problem we have in Pakistan, Egypt, Yemen — you go around the region. We could get engaged, by this standard, in all sorts of places. Sudan has been killing — the Sudanese government has been killing people in Darfur for years and years, and somehow all the major powers avoided thinking about it. I’m just suggesting to you there’s no standard here.”
--Former House speaker Newt Gingrich
(http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/post/libya-obama-and-the-tragedy-in-darfur/2011/03/23/ABlu34KB_blog.html)
Pictures
http://www.ushmm.org/genocide/take_action/gallery/photo/2
Jonathan Tarazi
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Darfur- Methods of Genocide
Images:
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2008/03/02/world/02darfur-600.jpg
http://thecafephenomenon.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/8f0ca_sudan_darfur_conflict_5571579314_1dd2feb3f9.jpg
http://www.jewishworldwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/620janjaweed.jpg
SADFOC (Sudanese Association for the Defence of Freedom of Opinion and Conscience) Letter to All Member States of the African Union Peace and Security Council:
http://www.jewishworldwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/620janjaweed.jpg
UN Security Council Monthly Darfur Report March 9, 2006:
http://www.un.org/ga/search/view_doc.asp?symbol=S/2006/148
Neil Villadolid
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Darfur- Methods of Genocide
Three Pictures-
1) http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_VvQerJGgSkg/TNs1-Yok1GI/AAAAAAAAAAk/USolpVi7LNI/s320/image001.jpg
2) http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QfVWU-2pVL4/SrPyb6JN8sI/AAAAAAAAIUw/A8o7yGUv6cg/s1600/This%2B2007%2Bphoto%2Bshows%2Bthe%2Baftermath%2Bof%2Ban%2Battack%2Bin%2Bthe%2Btown%2Bof%2BMuhajeria%2Bin%2Bsouthern%2BDarfur.jpg
3) http://i.huffpost.com/gen/1083946/thumbs/r-SUDAN-CHAD-DARFUR-FIGHTING-600x275.jpg
Primary Source-
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/oct/16/sudan-genocide-repeat-activists-claim
International Response-
The Prosecutor v. Abdallah Banda Abakaer Nourain and Saleh Mohammed Jerbo Jamus
On 17 August 2009, PTC I announced that had issued summons to appear for Abdallah Banda Abakaer Nourain (Banda) and Saleg Mohammed Jerbo Jamus (Jerbo). Banda and Jerbo are charged with three counts of war crimes allegedly committed during an attack carried out on 29 September 2007, against the African Union Mission in Sudan (AMIS), a peace-keeping mission stationed at the Haskanita Military Group Site (MGS Haskanita) in the locality of Umm Kadada, North Darfur. On 16 June 2010, the ICC announced the arrival of Banda and Jerbo at The Hague. The confirmation of charges hearing in the case was held on 8 December 2010 in the absence of the two suspects who had waived their right to be present. 89 victims participated in the confirmation hearing through their legal representatives. On 7 March 2011, PTC I confirmed the charges of war crimes against Banda and Jerbo, sending their case to trial. On 26 October, TC IV rejected a defense request for a temporary stay of proceedings.
http://www.iccnow.org/?mod=darfur
Iqbal Qayum
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Darfur Genocide: Methods
Pictures:
http://factfile.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/2.people-have-died-directly-from-acts-of-violence-in-Darfur.jpg
http://darfurgenocideprojectshs13.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/7/0/14705648/844883903.jpg
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_iUpoNBZyaBc/Sa6UdMwKUyI/AAAAAAAADKA/r2LlZX8UcH0/s320/Darfur_genocide_genocide_in_sudan_1.jpg
Letter of victim from Darfur Genocide:
El-Fadel Arbab told the auditorium full of students and teachers that he was 12 years old when the Janjaweed, a militia allied with the Sudanese government, attacked his village, killing women and children.
"We were very peaceful people … farmers. We had no schools, electricity, phones. But even if we live that way, we are happy, but they don't want to leave us alone," said Arbab.
Arbab was thrown into a burning building by the soldiers, he said, but managed to escape the flames and flee into the woods, where he hid in trees by day and walked at night until he reached the capital city, Khartoum.
Arbab's speech gave students a personal perspective on the genocide, a systematic effort by government forces to wipe out people in the western region of the country, killing 300,000 and displacing 2.6 million in a conflict that began in 2003, according to Amnesty International. Violence in the region still continues, despite the efforts of U.N. peacekeepers and the international attention.
Fortunately, Arbab was able to escape the violence, eventually reuniting with his mother and getting a visa to settle in Portland, Maine, with his brother. At first, his new life was haunted by the past, troubled by nightmares and memories of the war. "I locked myself in," said Arbab. "It was very difficult for me. But I felt like if I told my story, I would be able to move forward."
Learning English from books and tapes and attending a human rights conference in Washington, D.C., where he heard about the importance of survivors speaking out, encouraged him to begin speaking himself, Arbab said. He now speaks whenever he can — at schools, hospitals and community groups, and he is the vice president of Fur Cultural Revival Group, a community group that assists refugees from Darfur.
Arbab said that he hopes speaking about his experience will encourage the international community to bring the leaders responsible for the genocide to justice, to strengthen the U.N. presence in Darfur, and to help prevent future genocides.
"Hearing how people are suffering, it made me want to do something," said sophomore Nicole Schlask, who joined the high school's Darfur Awareness Committee with her sister Rebecca after hearing Arbab speak last year.
The committee, which started four years ago, meets once a week to discuss the current situation, plan fundraisers and organize events like the Thursday talk. Teachers Sean Crane and Lisa Wanzer, who advise the group and teach classes on genocide and modern world history, said that it formed after several students wanted to do more.
"The more I learned about it, the more I wanted to learn, to spread the word," said senior Mary Megan Hastings.
International Response:
http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/60434/scott-straus/darfur-and-the-genocide-debate
Works Cited:
http://50401952.blogspot.com/2010/11/sudanese-government-motives-in-darfur.html
Jacob Fisher
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Lasting Impact/Legacy
Pictures:
https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/p480x480/17909_507828472585538_1905167951_n.jpg
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0415953294.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg
http://www.keene.edu/ksc/assets/files/1737/img_sidore05.jpg
Primary Source:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmCo4N0AY6k
International Response:
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_z1JyBxIESm8/TRSVBbmELZI/AAAAAAAALOU/RVkFz79zASE/s400/darfur_us_lounger.jpg
Andrew Kahn
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Lasting Impact/Legacy
Image 1:Sexually abused woman sitting outside of village
http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/images/ibc_darfur_rape_girlonsticks.jpg
Image 2 Woman looking at the burned ruins of her former home in Darfur
http://www.ushmm.org/genocide/take_action/images/uploads/Darfur_exhibit_woman-in-yellow_med.jpg
Image 3: People displaced by the genocide
http://worldwithoutgenocide.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/IDPs-Sudan-300x199.jpg
Diary/ Letter from a displaced person in Darfur:
"They are from Muzbat, but they no longer live in the village itself. Their homes are destroyed and they are too afraid to return. They are living in the wadi and under trees, in caves. But the well is the only water source for dozens of kilometers, so they must come to take water."
http://www.alternet.org/story/46918/darfur_diaries%3A_stories_of_survival
International Response:Barack Obama on Darfur in 2004
“The United States has a moral obligation anytime you see humanitarian catastrophes. When you see a genocide in Rwanda, Bosnia or in Darfur, that is a stain on all of us, that’s a stain on our souls…We can’t say ‘never again’ and then allow it to happen again, and as a president of the United States I don’t intend to abandon people or turn a blind eye to slaughter.”
http://frontpagemag.com/2012/stephenbrown/obama%E2%80%99s-disappearance-on-darfur/
Shima Esmaeili
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Lasting Impact/Legacy
IMAGES:
http://leesean.net/wp-content/uploads/2006/12/ad-handcuff-big.jpg
https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/p480x480/17909_507828472585538_1905167951_n.jpg
http://globalgrassroots.org/img/title_darfur_genocide.jpg
PRIMARY SOURCE:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7luhsbBCMs
INTERNATIONAL RESPONSE :
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-458389/Bush-blasts-Darfur-genocide.html
Lewis Goodman
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Methods
Pictures:
http://www.genocidepreventionmonth.org/genocide-in-darfur.html
http://chatterboxchronicles.blogspot.com/2006/05/genocide-in-darfur.html
International Response:
http://www.eyesondarfur.org/response.html
Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8__o6mzsX0
Vince Aranda
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pictures:
http://www.google.com/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&docid=FxHSPTQYAbrxjM&tbnid=gkSW5kxq8_6qNM:&ved=0CAQQjB0&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thebureauinvestigates.com%2F2012%2F04%2F13%2Fterror-in-sudan-bashirs-second-genocide%2F&ei=2OawUav7I-SUiAK3_YDoDw&bvm=bv.47534661,d.cGE&psig=AFQjCNGtQhQYzRxYOJPK14pw9sHWCX5CPw&ust=1370634206600661
www.democracynow.org/2007/5/3/don_cheadle_and_john_prendergast_on
Roberto Stevens
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Pictures:
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=44697#.UbDlqeDRphM
http://www.eyesondarfur.org/crisis.html
http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/778786.shtml#.UbDm9uDRphM
Video interview:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7luhsbBCMs
International response:
https://www.un.org/sg/statements/index.asp?nid=6751
Ally Freed
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Lasting Impact
Primary Source
http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Genocide-survivors-to-spotlight-Darfur-horror-2520636.php
"My home village of Korma and the villages surrounding it were burned last year, and 132 people were killed," said Ibrahim, who left Sudan 15 years ago to study economics in India. "All of them were related to me. These are people from my tribe."
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Genocide-survivors-to-spotlight-Darfur-horror-2520636.php#ixzz2VT3pVP1X
International Response
http://www.oprah.com/oprahshow/Humanitarian-Crisis
Pictures
http://physiciansforhumanrights.org/assets/images/darfur-alt-3.jpg
http://stopgenocidenow.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Screen-Shot-2013-03-15-at-4.12.44-PM-290x290.png
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/~reinh20j/jaya2/janjaweed.png
Brian Hakimfar
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Topic: Darfur Lasting Impact & Legacy
Picture 1:
http://genocidevsholocaust.edublogs.org/files/2012/01/darfur3-1soq7td.jpg
Picture 2:
http://edtech2.boisestate.edu/kanec/502/Virtual%20Tour%20Pages/vtourfiles/Darfur_refugee_camp_in_Chad.jpg
Picture 3:
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/sudan_genocide_2.jpg
Diary Entry/Eye witness account: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCeKK8F3gRY
International Response:
http://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/accommodating-genocide-the-international-response-to-khartoums-new-strategy-for-darfur
Daniel Hirsch
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Darfur lasting impact and legacy
Pictures:
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcR0Iz5wqSqmYVHezYkrOHUGS8ZOUW8wvhj2Qi9BGuj0ZOcYUr_c
https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSuXsA34M4A473lmjgR-zzSE-iUxQiokFrQm9CXka_bYe1bwvWK
https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTvZoEgCbwe3ec0EUd0z3RkaU4VsZxAzz9txaG42oaQ1sQuxNs
Primary source:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CFcvPumKso
International response:
http://www.unis.unvienna.org/pdf/UN-Darfur_fact_sheet.pdf
Julie Selivanov
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Darfur Impact and Legacy
Pictures:
http://www.genocidepreventionmonth.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Genocide-in-Darfur.gif
http://worldwithoutgenocide.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Darfuri-Children.jpg
http://tierrabarrett.edublogs.org/files/2012/01/SP1119147-zsugtj.jpg
Primary source:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7luhsbBCMs
International response:
http://www.eyesondarfur.org/response.html
Brandon Kheradmand
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Darfur Political Motives
Pictures:1.)http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-MW6uA643Fog/TsaU9b-aL7I/AAAAAAAAAYI/O0JvFXSoZ7A/s1600/darfur-genocide+JEM+forces.jpg
2) http://www.mtholyoke.edu/~reinh20j/jaya2/janjaweed.png
3)https://global.unc.edu/files/2013/04/Image-12B.jpg.jpg
Primary source: http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2004/10/sud-o16.html
International Response: "The on-going conflict in Darfur, Sudan, which started in 2003, was declared a "genocide" by United States Secretary of State Colin Powell on 9 September 2004 in testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.[4] Since that time however, no other permanent member of the United Nations Security Council has followed suit. In fact, in January 2005, an International Commission of Inquiry on Darfur, authorized by UN Security Council Resolution 1564 of 2004, issued a report to the Secretary-General stating that "the Government of the Sudan has not pursued a policy of genocide."[5] Nevertheless, the Commission cautioned that "The conclusion that no genocidal policy has been pursued and implemented in Darfur by the Government authorities, directly or through the militias under their control, should not be taken in any way as detracting from the gravity of the crimes perpetrated in that region. International offences such as the crimes against humanity and war crimes that have been committed in Darfur may be no less serious and heinous than genocide." United Nations
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Darfur Lasting Impact/Legacy
Pictures:
1. http://www.motherjones.com/files/imagecache/colorbox-large/photoessays/darfur_05_500x330.jpg
2. http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QfVWU-2pVL4/SrPyb6JN8sI/AAAAAAAAIUw/A8o7yGUv6cg/s1600/This%2B2007%2Bphoto%2Bshows%2Bthe%2Baftermath%2Bof%2Ban%2Battack%2Bin%2Bthe%2Btown%2Bof%2BMuhajeria%2Bin%2Bsouthern%2BDarfur.jpg
3.http://f05cff0b8dde4b14dcbb-39ae6c0e90f9ab066a65187af475ed6d.r73.cf2.rackcdn.com/wp-
content/uploads/2012/11/darfur-genocide.jpg
Primary Source:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5jByP4-KQE
America's International Response:
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/03/17/us.sudan/
Kelly Clark
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Darfur- Lasting impact and legacy
Pictures:
http://crisispictures.blogspot.com/2011/10/darfur-genocide.html
http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/darfur%20genocide
http://www.hyscience.com/archives/2004/11/genocide_out_of.php
Primary Source:
http://www.darfurcentre.ch/
International Response:
http://responsibilitytoprotect.org/index.php/component/content/article/129-africa/1558-failure-to-protect-international-response-to-darfur-genocide
Ryan Nober
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Darfur genocide
Pictures-
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/sudan_genocide_2.jpg
http://c3e308.medialib.glogster.com/media/ff/ff5833fafdcaf4bb995e10920c7fa17e193520e8d7da111caef0cfabb68d30df/darfur13.jpg
http://intlxpatr.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/02darfur-600.jpg
Primary source-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7luhsbBCMs
International Response-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEd583-fA8M
jack korchek
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darfur genocide lasting impact
primary source:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7luhsbBCMs
international response:
http://www.eyesondarfur.org/response.html
pictures:
http://wtt235-cs373-wc.appspot.com/Crises/darfurgenocide
http://infactcollaborative.com/event/darfur-genocide-facts.html
http://worldwithoutgenocide.org/genocides-and-conflicts/darfur-genocide