The Genocide in Sudan

May 28, 2006

By now all of you have heard about Darfur in Sudan. It is located in the western part of Sudan where muslims are fighting and killing each other. The conflict is between two distinct groups in the diverse Darfur population; non-Arab black peoples like the Fur, Masalit, and Zaghawa, and Arab tribes collectively termed Baggara. They are not you typical arab but are considered arabs because of their lanuage, but genetically they are close to africans. Both groups are Muslims. The black musims are mostly farmers, and the arabs are mostly nomadic herdsmen. The dispute is primarily over access to land and surface water.

Sudan as you all know has one more conflict going on the southern part where the majority population is black and christians. That is another rwanda in the making. We in the west see these people as illiterate and barbaric. In some ways they are, and one can not change them, but they are humans too. I mean they are different from us but in some ways they are like us. By ignoring genosides happening around the world we are sending a wrong message that you can do anything and the international community will standy.

We as a collective human society needs to act and act now because if we loose this window of opportunity then we will forever regret our being, and the future generations will judge us very harshly.



The government and its Janjaweed allies have killed thousands of Fur, Masalit, and Zaghawa– often in cold blood, raped women, and destroyed villages, food stocks and other supplies essential to the civilian population. They have driven more than one million civilians, mostly farmers, into camps and settlements in Darfur where they live on the very edge of survival, hostage to Janjaweed abuses. More than 110,000 others have fled to neighbouring Chad but the vast majority of war victims remain trapped in Darfur.


The government-Janjaweed partnership is characterized by joint attacks on civilians rather than on the rebel forces. These attacks are carried out by members of the Sudanese military and by Janjaweed wearing uniforms that are virtually indistinguishable from those of the army. The goernment of Sudan is systematically trying to irradicate the minority ethnic groups.