The Darfur Crisis
As stated by Dr. Charlie much of the humanitarian work done in Sudan recently has aimed at treating the symptoms of Africa’s longest and most intractable conflict. Medical supplies, feeding schemes, education assistance and refugee housing are the most common sorts. The root causes, often obscure and always complex, remain to be addressed at some future date.
Dr. Baker mentioned that one new factor in the second civil war was the discovery of oil in Southern Sudan after the 1972 Addis Ababa agreements had been signed. Whereby the struggle to control and exploit this resource intensified the violence of the war in the 1980s and 1990s. This then lead to various leadership splits, political conferences and military offences as mentioned by Dr. …show more content…
Farris is that the UN and the US have both considered the crisis in Darfur the worst humanitarian and human rights case in the world currently? Out of the population of 7 million in the Darfur region, 30,000 - 50,000 are estimated to have been killed, and 1.2 million have been displaced. United States Aid for International Development (USAID) has mobilized a Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART), but the Khartoum government (KG) has refused access to affected areas. The KG has been overtly critical of US intentions as being biased in favor of the rebels in Darfur. The US as mentioned by Dr. Farris also in 2004, passed resolutions denouncing the atrocities in Darfur. The resolutions also called on the Bush administration to continue to lead an international effort to prevent genocide in Darfur, Sudan where main civilians were being killed and made to abandon their homes. In the same year also, Secretary of State Collin Powell visited Sudan to assess the conditions in Sudan and reported to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that genocide has been committed in Darfur and that the government of Sudan and the Janjaweed bear responsibility and that genocide may still be occurring. However, nothing more than public denouncements have been accomplished by the US government when actually one takes a close look at how the international
Dr. Baker mentioned that one new factor in the second civil war was the discovery of oil in Southern Sudan after the 1972 Addis Ababa agreements had been signed. Whereby the struggle to control and exploit this resource intensified the violence of the war in the 1980s and 1990s. This then lead to various leadership splits, political conferences and military offences as mentioned by Dr. …show more content…
Farris is that the UN and the US have both considered the crisis in Darfur the worst humanitarian and human rights case in the world currently? Out of the population of 7 million in the Darfur region, 30,000 - 50,000 are estimated to have been killed, and 1.2 million have been displaced. United States Aid for International Development (USAID) has mobilized a Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART), but the Khartoum government (KG) has refused access to affected areas. The KG has been overtly critical of US intentions as being biased in favor of the rebels in Darfur. The US as mentioned by Dr. Farris also in 2004, passed resolutions denouncing the atrocities in Darfur. The resolutions also called on the Bush administration to continue to lead an international effort to prevent genocide in Darfur, Sudan where main civilians were being killed and made to abandon their homes. In the same year also, Secretary of State Collin Powell visited Sudan to assess the conditions in Sudan and reported to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that genocide has been committed in Darfur and that the government of Sudan and the Janjaweed bear responsibility and that genocide may still be occurring. However, nothing more than public denouncements have been accomplished by the US government when actually one takes a close look at how the international