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The Janjaweed
-government funded arab muslim militants
-ground troops that are responsible for killing and rape
Citizens
-victims of murder and rape
-being wiped out by Sudanese government
Sudanese Liberation movement (SLM) & The Justice Equality Movement
-powerful insurgence groups fighting against the government
Roughly translates into "Devils on Horseback"
-fighting for independence of Darfur free of Genocide
-come under fire for non-ethical treatment of villages and prisoners
-Location
-Who
The Genocide
-Who was involved
-History
-Social, economic, environmental, political reasons
-How the Genocide has been committed
-Media
-UN involvement
Sudan
-Civil War leaves Darfur underdeveloped and marginalized at the federal level, lacking infrastructure and development assistance
- Neglect, combined with allegations that the government was arming Arab tribesmen (Janjaweed) to raid non-Arab villages, was cited as the justification for a February 2003 rebel attack on a Sudanese Air Force Base at El Fasher
Attacks on Darfuri villages commonly begin with Sudanese Air Force bombings
Air campaigns are often followed by Janjaweed militia raids
All remaining village men, women, and children are either murdered or forced to flee. Looting, burning food stocks, enslaving and raping women and children, and stealing livestock are common.
Dead bodies are tossed in wells to contaminate water supplies and entire villages are burned to the ground.
-attack sparked series of government reprisals on residents of Darfur
-Large-scale human right atrocities
-initial location of rebel attacks
-started genocide
Economic:
-Darfur is home to massive oil industry
-government is unwilling to allow any form of autonomy
Social:
-trust among many broken
-unstable government to citizen relationship
-other countries unwilling to help on a large scale due
Environmental:
-war-torn land ves once agriculturally rich lands unsuitable
-stripping forests and destroyed farmland
Political:
-government punished Darfur for attempted rebellion
-did so with mass killings and terrorizing
Statistics
400,000 Darfuri killed
80 per cent of the young girls and adult women were abused sexually. Most of them were involved in sexual slavery
2.3 million people have been forced to leave their homes and live as refugees
-Despite Colin Powell declaring Darfur the most terrible crisis of Humanitarian in this 21th century media coverage has been dismal
-First the Crisis was ignored, then it suddenly became subject of a massive grassroots campaign, then it was forgotten again
-The Media has let the people of Darfur down by letting ratings and popularity define its coverage
-The Media has the power to change the conversation