Thursday, March 19, 2009

Research Post #2

I read another article about the conflict in Darfur.

The article talks about how the President of Darfur, has commited serious crimes. For example he expelled ten humanitariam groups from Darfur and called for their arrest. I think that this show how the corrupt govenment causecd this conlict to begin and to last for this long.

The government in Darfur isn't helping the situation at all. The President, Omar al-Bashir, is denying all accusations against him and isn't doing anything to stop the genocide grom happening.

The war in Darfur started in 2003, when African tribes rebelled against the government becasue they were being discriminataed and neglected.
-the government in Khartoum, the capital of Sudan, is mostly Arab.
-"janjaweed Arab militia they support of murdering civilians and preying on them in refugee camps"
-The Arab malitia is adding to the killing. The people in Darfur are in a bad place because they have the military and the governemnt against them, which makes it difficult to defend themselves and to try and stop the war.

The International Crime Court was ordered to investigate Darfur in 2005. They did and that is how the charges against the President came about, but Sudan doesn't accept the court's juristiction.

Corder, Mike. "Wanted For War Crimes: Sudan's President." Reno Gazette-Journal (2009):

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