Darfur Genocide Reflection

Darfur Reflection

I feel that the Darfur, Sudan Genocide was a horrible event in world history. I don’t know how people can actually do this to others. With number like 400,000 people killed, and at least two million others forced from their homes since 2003, I’m sure many other people would agree too. These numbers are almost the entire population of the Darfur region of Sudan. This is almost like cutting 1/3 of the population by killing and starving people. It’s amazing to think that so many innocent people can be killed by their own government, and the government didn’t give a care about it at all and just ignored everyone, no matter how old or young you were.

Also, the fact that the genocide is still going on today makes it even worse. You would think that the U.N. and just people in general would have these types of problems under control and over with, but not in Sudan's case. It’s sad to know that the United Nations is completely ignoring the conflict in Sudan and not doing anything about it. It feels like it is coming down to national sovereignty vs. human rights. But it is obvious that numerous amounts of human rights are being violated in this event.

The genocide in Sudan relates to the Holocaust and what had happened in Germany. I believe this because like the Jews being the ethnic minorities in the country and being killed for that, the ethnics minorities in Sudan at being killed for no reason, just like the Jews in the holocaust. It would be very scary if this event is reliving the holocaust, and is almost like a re-enactment of it. Some more proof to prove this event is similar to the Holocaust in Germany is that the Jews in Germany were held at concentration camps where they were tortured, killed, forced to do work, and starved to death by the camp generals. Likewise in Darfur, over two million people were forced out of their homes and put into refugee camps were they had to do the same things the Jews had to do, or what they went through, being tortured, forced to do work, and eventually starving to death because of the lack of food.

The two major groups involved with the Darfur, Sudan genocide are the Sudanese military and the Janjaweed. It is very sad to know that the own government of the people is turning on them by supporting and supplying the Janjaweed and the Sudanese military with the money and equipment they need to complete their attacks on camps and civilian villages. I cannot believe that President Omar Hasan Al-Bashir is saying he is trying the best he can to help is country, but little did the people know that Al-Bashir was helping the wrong people in the country by supporting the Janjaweed.

After learning and getting in-depth research on the conflict in the Darfur region of Sudan, I can see what horrible misery the innocent ethnic minorities have and the harsh conditions they have to live through. I would never of had thought that a conflict that had gone this far and that had become that bad would still exist in the world today. And I think that the worst part of all is that the “powerful” United Nations cannot even devote a little of their time and money into cleaning up the conflict in Sudan, instead they focus on other minor conflict around the world instead of the major conflict in Sudan, I feel that something defiantly needs to be done in Sudan, and something need to be done fast.


BY: PRUTHVI MISTRY