Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Genocide

If you were asked where Darfur was located before the year 2003 you would look like a deer in headlights and just stare in amazement of never hearing of a place. To everyone now it is just as easy to point out this area on a map with the ease of finding Michigan if you live in the USA. Rebel groups located in southern Sudan have been fighting the Janjaweed, Sudanese Militia, based on the fact that they don't support the President of Sudan. The Janjaweed have taken many rights from the people, like persecuting by a person race or ethnicity, and have raped and taken lives of innocent people. This area has been on massive alert from 2003 with many causes including online games to save a person from Darfur to an MTV rally to raise awareness as to what is happening in this area. The President, Omar Hassan al-Bashir, has arrest warrant currently out for him from Internation Criminal Court prosecturer Luis Moreno-Ocampo for war crimes. This area needs to be safe once again and for future generations I think the people in this area would rather have people not knowing where they live then everyone knowing where they live because of this mass genocide.

1 comment:

Gloria said...

You definitely already used the "deer in the headlights" before in one of your papers