Some history on Darfur

Does it matter what we call it? Genocide or Erasure of a ‘country of the blacks’ 

Imagine the Gods of history looking down on us all after our failure of protecting millions of innocent human lives from their own governments, and imagine them saying to us “well give you another chance, but this time so as to be sure you get it right we’ll do it in slow motion and we’ll call it Darfur.”

More than 2,000,000 lives hanging by a thread, abandoned by their government, attacked by brutal militias. My interest took me through a lot of research and here I am along with all those others raising awareness to save those before their is nothing left to save. I believe that if people knew what was happening that they would do something about it. But because of the geography of the region and the resistance of the Sudanese government it makes it difficult to report on the violence in Darfur, but the occasional story does get out.

Make no mistake, this isn’t the first Genocide, but it is the first Genocide of the 21st century and if it continues unchecked it will not be the last. April 1994 the world thought they had learned a lesson in Rwanda when 800,000 people were killed in 100 days. But when it happened again, the world just sat back and watched as 400,000 people got killed, 2,500,000 people lost their homes, 1,000,000 close to death from lack of food and from disease in Darfur. 500 people continue to die each day. Most killed by the Sudanese governments militia the Janjaweed.

In early 2003 the Sudanese had completed the settlement of a large civil war between the North and the South, dividing in the settlement was the oil wealth and positions in a new government and for a Darfur neglected region they were left out, they said “we weren’t even at the table,” and they began a rebellion to gain access to both power and wealth.

It’s genocide when little children cry because belligerent armed men intimidate them, intimidate their family and ultimately run them off; they scare the people away, poison their wells, rape their women and make them leave.

The Darfur villages have become caught in the cross fire of a struggle between the Sudanese government and rebel forces. Hundreds of thousands have been forced off their lands reduced only to the basics of existence in refugee camps. 

These people only have a fragment of the human rights of a normal human being. When one ask five years in “why is Darfur being left to it’s own devices?, 

 

Why are all of those people simply being fed and not protected and not being returned to their home?” The answer is everyone wants them to be safe, but nobody wants to make them safe. (The dots on the map represent the villages that were destroyed)