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Genocide in Darfur:

History: Local Arab tribes in Darfur are banning together to create a militia known as the Janjaweed. The leader of the Janjaweed is Sheik Musa Hilal. The Janjaweed are attacking, raping, starving, and murdering the black people in Darfur. Their goal is to get rid of all the non-Arabs in the area. This all started in February 2003. The United States declared it as genocide on September 9, 2004. The death toll is about 300,000 people. It has displaced 2,500,000 people. About 100 people die everyday.

Political Impact: The government completely supports Janjaweed militia that is the trying to get rid of blacks in Africa. There is going to be a referendum in 2011 which will split Sudan into a Northern and Southern section. This will end the civil war that is going on. The UN Security Council just passed a resolution to stop the Janjaweed. The Sudanese government is not really doing anything to stop the issue, it is mostly other countries that are trying to stop the genocide. However, the Sudanese government are now allowing a peace keeper force in the region. Politicians in other countries don't say anything about Darfur unless it is beneficial to their political needs. Generally we don't hear a lot about the issue in Darfur.

Economic Impact: Oil is very big in Sudan and the Janjaweed kill off the blacks so they can have the oils for themselves. The genocide problem is negatively affecting the rest of Sudan and other countries in Africa because now all the aid from other countries is going straight into Darfur and the rest of the countries are lacking. The Janjaweed are taking away the natural resources in Darfur.

Social Impact: Stress, lack of food, and dehydration because of the genocide are making it hard for women to produce milk to feed their babies. Malnutrition and starvation are problems in refugee camps. There is also a huge problem of displacement. Which is negatively affecting their neighboring countries who then have to figure out what to do with the thousands of refugees. Other families that have been displaced have been put into IDP camps, which are camps which stay within the borders in the country. (IDP stands for Internally Displaced Person). The Janjaweed violence is spreading into neighboring countries. Villages are being destroyed and there is a lot of disease. Destabilization is making it hard for aid workers to help them. Animals are being killed because of disease. When the europeans left Sudan they left an unstable government and the Sudanese have not been able to change that yet because they lack power.

Future of the Issue: The government needs to accept that there is currently a genocide going on and needs to stop refusing help from other countries. The Sudanese government needs to use military force and political force to stop the genocide. Also, the government needs to become stronger and stop delaying the presidential elections.

Sheik Mussa Hilal - leader of the Janjaweed tribe. He has been recruiting Arab tribes for Sudan's central government to fight the Darfur rebels.He has been known to give orders to kill African Natives.

Omer Hassan Al-Bashir - The president of Sudan. Has an arrest warrant by the International Criminal Court because of war crimes and genocide in Darfur. He has been President since 1989. He was just reelected in 2010 and he took 68% of the vote.

Sudan Liberation movement - Sudanese rebel group fighting to stop the genocide in Darfur and to show that the genocide is a major problem in the country to the sudanese government

Khalil Ibrahim - leader of the JEM (Justice and Equality Movement) rebel group in Darfur. He is trying to stop genocide in Darfur and formed an alliance with the SLM, another rebel group trying to stop genocide.

Works Cited:
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 * "War of the Future: Oil Drives the Genocide in Darfur." Common Dreams | News & Views. Web. 24 Sept. 2010. .
 * "Austria expresses concern over Darfur, calls for peaceful referendum in South." Sudan Tribune [Sudan] 15 July 2010. Global Issues In Context. Web. 27 Sept. 2010.
 * http://world.mediamonitors.net/Headlines/Darfur-politics-aimed-at-break-up-of-Sudan
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