Darfur
Solutions in Darfur
Lush natural surroundings, a flourishing community, and a humbled people, all burned to ashes in an instant. To know Darfur, Sudan before the rebel Janjaweed clan took over, was to know the heart of Africa. Her 6 million people were harmonious with nature and all the gifts she provided for them. Then the bullets came. Villages were rent asunder, her land and women raped, the children taken as forced fighters, and the men murdered in cold blood.
400,000 people wiped off the face of the Earth all because of their ethnic background, and no one has stepped forward to actively help the people of Darfur. What then must done in order to help the refugees? The United Nations must actively become involved by means of direct military action or sanctioning upon the Sudanese government, in order to protect the basic human rights of the innocent men, women, and especially children, of Darfur, from the vile torture of the Janjaweed.
Darfur, a region approximately the size of Texas, lies in the western borders of Sudan. As stated earlier, the 6 million residents of Darfur live a Spartan lifestyle, being some of the most destitute people in Africa. The populace consists of two ethnic classes; the non-Arab black Africans, and the Arab black Africans. The majority of Darfurians rely upon agrarian farming as their source of income. However after decades of drought and harsh treatment from the government, life for Darfuri people has become even more distressing (Pity the people).
The hostility in Darfur commenced in 2003. The non-Arab Darfurians mostly consisting of farmers, who were tired of the social injustices enacted by the current president Omar al Bashir, formed two rebel groups known as the Sudanese Liberation Army/Movement (SLA/M) and the Justice and Equality movement (JEM). In response to the rebel movement the government responded with gruesome retaliation (Pity the people).
The Sudanese government hired...
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