Group items tagged Darfur Genocide - Youth Voices

shared by Gavriela C on 08 Apr 10 - Cached

he Darfur genocide has killed more than 400,000 civilians and displaced 2.5 million people from their homes. About the size of Texas, the Darfur region of Sudan is home to racially mixed Muslim tribes. In February 2003, frustrated by poverty and neglect, two Darfurian rebel groups launched an uprising against the Khartoum government. The government responded with a scorched-earth campaign, arming and bankrolling militias against the innocent civilians of Darfur. A small peacekeeping force run by the African Union is in place, but it is largely unsupported by the rest of the world. Civilian protection is desperately needed to stop the violence and end the genocide.
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shared by Kara F on 26 Mar 10 - Cached

In fact, the North-South Civil War is one of the longest wars in Africa and in the world. The forty year war ended in 2005 and the current genocide in Sudan is not part of this civil war. The capital of Sudan is Khartoum, in the Northern part of the country. Even though Sudan is a war-ravaged country, Sudan is rich in natural resources, like oil and is not necessarily a poor country. A closer look at Darfur Darfur is a state in the western part of Sudan. Six million Sudanese people call Darfur home, but at least half of them have been displaced from Darfur because of recent conflict. Darfur is the poorest state in Sudan and all tribal groups in Darfur have suffered from the neglect of the Sudanese government.
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shared by Gavriela C on 08 Apr 10 - Cached

frican farmers and others in Darfur are being systematically displaced and murdered at the hands of the Janjaweed, a government-supported militia recruited from local Arab tribes. The genocide in Darfur has claimed 400,000 lives and displaced over 2,500,000 people. More than one hundred people continue to die each day; five thousand die every month.
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shared by Gavriela C on 26 Mar 10 - Cached

As the conflict in Darfur enters its sixth year, conditions continue to deteriorate for civilians. Hundreds of thousands of people have been killed, even by the most conservative estimates. The United Nations puts the death toll at roughly 300,000, while the former U.N. undersecretary-general puts the number at no less than 400,000.(1) Up to 2.5 million Darfuris have fled their homes and continue to live in camps throughout Darfur, or in refugee camps in neighboring Chad and the Central African Republic. Based on Sudan’s behavior over the past five years, it is clear that unless the international community imposes additional political costs for Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir’s intransigence, his government will continue to buy time by accepting initiatives only to backtrack later or impose new conditions that render them useless.
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Of the eight largest displacements between January and November 2007, seven resulted from government or Janjaweed attacks. Only one was the result of intertribal fighting
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shared by Gavriela C on 08 Apr 10 - Cached

ue to the war in Sudan, there are thousands of orphans in the South with no government infrastructure to help these vulnerable at-risk children. Make Way Partners is making a difference with the help of committed individuals like you through offering complete care by protecting, housing, feeding, medically treating and educating hundreds of children through our indigenous ministries - New Life Ministry & Hope For Sudan.  The death rate of un-housed orphans is very high due to exposure to weather, wildlife, and rape. In 2006, more than 280 orphans died at night in our Nyamlell community directly because of not having housing. By meeting more than the basic survival needs of these children and by ministering to both Darfur Refugees and Southern Sudanese children - we are helping to raise-up a generation of educated Peace Makers, rather than deprived revenge seekers.
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