Merissa Driver
Reflection
6/11/07
Darfur is tragic all in it self. The goverment is ethnic cleansing the country so to speak. In one of the posts i saw a political cartoon of the country of sudan. you see blood pouring out. i guess that mean they are still doing this cleansing and it is half empty. I agree with what the person wrote about it in the caption. The political cartoon my group put up was very symblolistic also. It was with Uncle Sam just sitting around watching tv and watching a program about Darfur. He is saying that the one person should get on it and save Darfur. But he represents the usa as a whole. by looking at these and many more it made me relize that well we are very to have what we have and should help because if we dont this is going to spread to another place. then we'll have to help there and Darfur. What will we do if anything soon? Darfur is very unlucky because of what they go thru on a daily basis. Many are burned, shot, starved, and get many other cruel and unneeded punishments. Currently the UN is in darfur helping but im not sure alot. They are kinda helping but not much. they know its genocide but what can they do to help really. But they are at least trying to help. Otherwise they are only acusing Sudan Goverment of Genocide.Darfur is in Sudan as you may know or may not. the minorites are being killed to ethnic cleanse the country. Here are some or maybe all of the non-arabs that are tourchered every day. Acholi · Amri · Anuak · Andang · Atwot. I got this list at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ethnic_minorities_of_Sudan. But i dint use all of them. I was surprised to see all of the groups listed. Even hitler didnt have that much. There was about 20-30 other groups. Prehaps some more groups. This surprised me because well who hates that many people/ groups. The anwser Sudanese goverment. I am mad because we are sitting here and just letting this happen in front of our faces. What if this was happing to America? Who would we call? We would get help cause we matter to others. Why doesnt Sudan matter? Dont they have allies? I am starting to understand the way america has always been, trying to stay out of foriegn affairs. The people of Darfur has lost all their rights to be we’ll human. They are suffering for something they never did.I now get that the goverment is responsible in every way for this crisis. Here are some people that are responsible. First the Jangaweed, they kill the people they are ordered to kill. Such as starving, tourchered, or shotable people. According to http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1626102/posts people rioted in the streets of Washington DC in 2006 about Darfur and what exacly is giong on. this also says that they are ignoring the genocide in Iraq but totaly flipping out about Darfur. Why is this so much worse? This is worse because we are not doing sqwat. Bush has given 188$ million dollors but he should be giving way more. I personaly think that these people are right and they are right to stand up for this. About 40% of Darfurs pop. is Christian. They have to flee to Chad to be safe from the Jangaweed from killing them. People are being killed trying to get water or just trying to get food. The Darfur goverment is directly responsible for the genocide and the 400,000 people already killed. The death rate may be up by now. The Sudanese government is second to only Iraq as a ground for what is called international terrorism. Why didn’t we see them marching, we only heard about it. The JEM is trying to help the people but are they trying hard enough?