Allen&Mason

The Darfur War, By Mason Mcintosh and Allen Velten


WHAT THE PROBLEM IS: The **War in Darfur** (called the **Darfur Genocide** by the United States Government) is a military conflict in the [|Darfur] region of western [|Sudan]. Unlike the [|Second Sudanese Civil War], the current lines of conflict are seen to be native and tribe, rather than religious ways. One side of the armed conflict is composed mainly of the [|Sudanese military] and the [|Janjaweed], a [|militia] group recruited mostly from the [|Arab] [|Baggara] tribes of the northern [|Rizeigat], camel-herding [|nomads]. The combination of decades of [|drought], [|desertification], and [|overpopulation]  are among the causes of the Darfur conflict, because the Baggara [|nomads] searching for water have to take their livestock further south, to land mainly occupied by non-Arab farming communities. HOW MANY ARE PEOPLE DYING:

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum estimates that 100,000 have died each MONTH because of government attacks. But most non-governmental organizations use 200,000 to more than 400,000; the latter is a figure from the Coalition for International Justice. Sudan's government claims that over 9,000 people have been killed, although this figure is seen as a gross underestimate. As many as 2.5 million are thought to have been displaced as of October 2006.

WHEN THE WAR IS HAPPENING:    EVEN THE KIDS ARE FIGHTING:  Around the same time, the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council appointed seven UN human rights special rapporteurs to form a group of experts on Darfur. This group was composed of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Sudan, the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for children and armed conflict, the Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on the situation of human rights defenders, the Representative of the Secretary-General on the human rights of internally displaced persons and the Special Rapporteur on the question of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. 
 * A rebellion started in 2003 against the Arab-dominated Sudanese government, with two local rebel groups - the [|Justice and Equality Movement] (JEM) and the [|Sudanese Liberation Army] (SLA) - accusing the government of oppressing non-Arabs in favor of Arabs. The government was also accused of neglecting the Darfur region of Sudan. In response, the government mounted a campaign of aerial bombardment supporting ground attacks by an Arab militia, the [|Janjaweed] . Literally translated, Janjaweed means 'devils on horseback'. The government-supported Janjaweed were accused of committing major [|human rights] violations, including mass killing, looting, and [|systematic rape] of the non-Arab population of Darfur. They have frequently burned down whole villages, driving the surviving inhabitants to flee to refugee camps, mainly in Darfur and [|Chad]; many of the camps in Darfur are surrounded by Janjaweed forces. By the summer of 2004, 50,000 to 80,000 people had been killed and at least a million had been driven from their homes, causing a major humanitarian crisis in the region. **

 CONCLUSION:  I noticed that a lot of [people die in the war, like when i was little i didn't really think war was bad at all because i didnt really think it happened a lot, but doing this priject i saw SO MANY WAR'S like it's unbelieveble how many poeple are dying ; for the stupidest reasons too. I'll name some reasond of war; religion, climat, colour of the skin etc... If evryone thaught like me that they should stop war then it would pretty much be a perfect world, with no fighting no shooting no hiting, but to end this report im just going to tell you something. NEVER SUPORT WAR, its a very horrible thing i know i've said that before but just never ever support it. thak you for reading from, Mason McIntosh and Allen Velten. STOP THE WAR

 A mother with her sick baby at Abu Shouk IDP camp in [|North Darfur].

Proposal

We plan to get reaserch on the war(s) going on in Africa. Especially the war in the darfur reagion, thtas the one im trying to lurn the most

