Monday, June 11, 2007

The Darfur conflict is brutal, and inhumane. The Sudanese govermnet provies money, and support to the Jajaweed Arab militia services. The Jajaweeeds job is to "ethnically cleanse" al of the Non- Arabs but, the three groups they focus on is the: Fur, Zaghawa and Massaleit tribes.
In Nazi Germany, there were many laws that discrimated against the Jewish population. These laws were known as the Nuremberg Laws, which racially discrimated agains Jews, Homosexuals, Gypsies, Communists, and many other groups Hitler, and the Nazi's disliked. To be accepted in Nazi Germany, you had to be an Aryan. This meant a German citizen had to have at least 3 or more gnerations back of not being Jewish. Also, the Germans used Eugenics to determine if a persons nose, or face was proportional for being German, or if they had the correct eye or hair color.

These two situations are happening in two different time periods, but are very much alike. In Darfur, the goverment belives that specific ethnic groups should not be accepted in society, as Hitler thought the Jews could not be accepted into society. As the Darfur conflict resumed in 2003, the battles got more firece and brutal, as did in Nazi Germany when they turned the labor camps into death camps. The government, non the less is associated with both of these horrible issues around the world, even if they don't admit it. In the Nuremberg Laws, there were many things that said they couldn't have such as: Jewish marriages, or that Jews couldn't express Germany's flag or colors ect. In the Darfur conflict the Sudanese goverment only ordered the Jajaweed milita to attack and displace many ethnic groups of the Darfur region, that the goverment didn't like.

by: Leah (Merissa D, Melissa B, and Kim L)

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