Greg Roses Reflection

While I was reading the information on the conflict in Darfur Sudan I was shocked that people still did this kind of thing after the Nuremburg Trials. When I was reading the information I felt a sense of duty to try to get something about this conflict. After this assignment I feel that I have done something to work towards the punishment of the criminals in Darfur.
When reading one article I was infuriated to learn the United Nations response to the Genocide in Darfur, Sudan. The United Nations investigation into the genocidal claims in Darfur ended in reporting that “There was rape and mass murder but the genocidal intent was not present.” When I read this I felt that if the United Nations could not protect these people and do the job they were founded on doing than they have no purpose in this world and are just a group of annoying, corrupt politicians. I decided to run this Idea by some members of my Family and learned that they already shared this view. If the United Nations, The only political body with representatives from almost all the countries in the world did not act on this then who would? The United States of American could not act because the United Nations and other individual Governments provoke us for “Uncalled for actions of hostility toward our fellow man” then what else should we do? Say Stop doing that or else and give an obviously empty threat. Who is going to defend the innocent civilians caught up in a war between the Sudanese Government and the rebellious groups in Darfur?
Another reaction I had was feeling a sense of loss at the people who had died in Darfur. Some of them could have been important political figures or revolutionaries in fields of science, medicine, and the Arts. When these people were killed the vast majority were killed for crimes they hadn’t committed or would never commit. Most of the people who were killed in this country in Africa were Muslim too. If this kind of religious hatred is still tolerated who is to stop Japan to start burning their Christian population for practicing their ideals, Who is to stop the Indian Government from killing all non-Hindu population including the massive Muslim population in the North-West of the country. Why Doesn’t the United Nations Do something. I know the United Nations Is caught between a rock and a hard place here bun the right thing to do, which is what they were formed to do, would be to intervene in Sudan. This is almost the exact situation that occurred in Nazi Germany almost 70 years ago now, The Genocide of a large group of people in a short amount of time in a single country.

By Greg Rose