when rebels decided they didn’t like the government. The government responded brutally‚ with government troops invading civilian towns‚ killing men and raping women. The resulting violence caused as many as 300‚000 people dying (Though the president‚ Omar Al-Bashir‚ places the death toll at only 10‚000)‚ and another 1.9 million in displacement camps or fleeing to Chad. President Bashir was charged by the ICC with war crimes in March 2009. Source Two Internet Address: http://imdiversity.com/villages/global/the-conflict-in-darfur/
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U.S. Involvement in the Crisis in Darfur Since the end of the Cold War‚ Africa has been a continent rife with violence mainly in the form of civil war. This can be attributed greatly to the halt of economic and political progress after the two superpowers‚ the United States and the Soviet Union‚ no longer needed to compete in Africa. Now that the rivalry has subsided neither country has any real reasons‚ economic or political‚ to have as large of a presence in the Post-Cold War era. Not only
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1st - Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir is elected as the first female Prime Minister of Iceland‚ becoming the first openly gay Head of State in the modern world. *Mar 4th - The International Criminal Court (ICC) issues an arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur. Al-Bashir is the first sitting head of state to be indicted by the ICC since its establishment in 2002. * Apr 30th - The United Kingdom formally ends combat operations in Iraq
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To start off‚ “Genocide” is categorized as the action of exterminating a certain ethnicity‚ race‚ and or religion. In Sudan‚ the government and the Janjaweed have classified anyone that gets in their way a problem thus‚ making them victims. The 8 Stages of genocide explain the steps taken to classify the problems Darfur as a genocide. It’s known that after a genocide takes place it’s hard for any economy to bounce back. The genocide taking place in Sudan‚ driven by the negligent government and an
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To most people around the world the fact that the conflict in the Darfur region of the Sudan is genocide. A genocide similar to the holocaust of the Jews during WWII. Both the holocaust and the Darfur genocide have many similarities and differences. The holocaust was to exterminate all Jewish people. In Darfur the conflict is not against two different religions but instead against two different races. Like the holocaust many innocent civilians have lost their lives in both genocides. There many similarities
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Using my own knowledge and information‚ who do I think was most to blame for the Darfur Conflict? The Sudan Conflict (Also known as the Darfur Conflict) began in the 1980’s with disputes between the Black Africans and the Arabs over remaining farmland that hadn’t become scarce due to a series of droughts. The Arabs (who bred and grazed cattle) needed land that the Black Africans had. Because their land had become desolate and the remaining land was limited‚ the Black Africans refused for the Arabs
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Movement (SLM)‚ and Minni Minawi’s group of the SLM. Be that as it may‚ numerous arrangements have up to this point been to a great extent unsuccessful. On March 4‚ 2009‚ the International Criminal Court issued a capture warrant for Sudanese President Omar Bashir for wrongdoings against humankind and‚ in July 2010‚ a warrant for capture on charges of genocide. The legislature of Sudan‚ be that as it may‚ has yet to turn him over‚ and since the issuance of the warrants‚ the nation has seen real dissents
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groups come together they can help those involved‚ as with the help of public backlash on this issue‚ they can help the children involved get out of these situations. Accordingly from “The Charge: Genocide” By Lydia Polgreen‚ “...Sudan’s President‚ Omar Hassan al-Bashir‚ could face arrest on charges of genocide—the systematic destruction of a racial or cultural group—as well as war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Darfur: In July‚ the prosecutor at the International Criminal Court (I
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Sudanese President Omar Bashir has had two arrest warrants issued on him by the International Criminal Court (ICC). The first warrant‚ issued on March 4‚ 2009‚ was for crimes against humanity.The Richoux 4 second warrant‚ issued in July‚ 2012‚ was for charges of genocide
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to the Arabs whereas the South was home to the Blacks. Since the British left in 1956‚ Darfur has faced many years of tension over land and grazing rights between the mostly nomadic Arabs‚ and the black African farmers. In 1989 An Arab leader called Omar al-Bashir came to power in a coup and tried to remove the African presence in Darfur. The Sudan Liberation Army
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