Central African Genocide

What do you think about when you hear the word genocide? Probably the Holocaust and if someone said name another genocide in human history you would draw up blank. . True without the Holocaust we probably wouldn’t have all of the laws preventing genocide or groups monitoring conflicts of signs of genocide, but it still would have happened. Even with all of the precautions we have to prevent it, it still happens. Without the knowledge of all of the horrible things that we do to each other we are ignorant and need to be educated on the topics that truly define human nature. Rwanda which is located in central Africa is first. In the 1800’s Europe's most powerful leaders met to discuss who should get what land in the unsettled Africa, which
After seeing the Sudanese government make peace with an armed rebellion in the south the population of Darfur decided that an armed rebellion was the only way to get the attention they needed to get money for schools and roads to be built in their portion of the country. The government didn’t take this force seriously until they took over an army base on April 25, 2005. After that the government backed local Arab militia forces to target the 3 Darfur tribes responsible for the attack. They gave the militiamen more soldiers, arms, and access to Sudanese warplanes. The most feared group was the Janjaweed which translates to evil on horseback. The International community thought that this was just another ethnic cleansing like what happened in Bosnia with the Serbian Christians taking out the Bosnian Muslims. When the Janjaweed would take over a village they would first surround the village then ride in on their horses and kill all of the males, then they would rape the women in the camp, after all of that has done they would loot and buy the wooden huts to the ground. 2.5 million Sudanese were in relief camps, the largest camp was in Chad housing 150,000 Sudanese refugees. Dr. Jerry Ehrlich is a doctor with Médecins Sans Frontières or as it is known here Doctors without borders. When he arrived in Kalma the population was 45,000. Ehrlich saw over 100 patients a day most of them children that
He presented his law to an international conference in 1933 in Madrid, Spain. His law consisted of 2 main parts, the first making it illegal for one group to murder another based on race religion, nation, or any other social distinction. The second was mainly about preserving culture and not letting it get destroyed. It was not openly rejected, but was referred to a committee and never spoken about again. Lemkin was driven from his home when the Germans invaded Poland, but he escaped to the US and got a teaching job at Duke University. In a speech by Winston Churchill he called Germany’s actions a “crime without a name”, this inspired Lemkin to create a name for the atrocities that they were committing. In the end he settled upon using the Greek genos meaning “Nation, group, tribe” and the Latin word cidium meaning “To kill”. After this Lemkin continued to lobby US politician trying to raise awareness about what was happening the European Jews. President Roosevelt himself wrote a letter to Lemkin asking for patience and assuring him that good things come to those who wait. Which prompted him to respond with a letter of his own asking the president if good things come to those who wait when the noose is already tightening around their neck? Raphael Lemkin died 1959 in New York