I would like to write a paper about the Darfur Crisis because it is a current event, not everybody really knows what is going on over there and I am concerned about it.
Last year, I did a research paper on the Rwanda Conflict and I found many Internet web sites and articles talking about those two “genocides”. Up to a certain level they are linked together and that is why I have interests on what is going on with the Darfour conflict.
I really have difficulties to understand why human wants to kill each other. How can it be possible to be so bad? I think it is sad that people do not feel concerned about this crisis because there are a lot of people dying in Darfour.
The Darfur conflict is an armed conflict between a militia group called the Janjaweed (supported by the Sudanese government) and “land-tilling” tribes of the region. The conflict takes place in the Darfur region of western Sudan, in Africa and it began in July 2003.
Here are some Internet sites on this subject:
Amnesty International, Sudan crisis - Background.
http://web.amnesty.org/pages/sdn-background-eng.
Amnesty International, Darfur crisis spreads to Chad.
http://web.amnesty.org/pages/sdn-290606-editorial-eng
Amnesty International, Act now to end the crisis in Darfur.
http://darfur.amnestyusa.org/site/c.ggLLIYOHKrF/b.1847455/k.B1DD/Amnesty_International_USA_Act_now_to_end_the_crisis_in_Darfur.htm
BBC News. Sudan 'starving Darfur refugees'.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3692005.stm
Braker, Dr. K. Sudanese refugees in Chad: One Year On. Voices from the field, Doctors Without Borders.
http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/news/voices/2004/11-2004_chad.htm
European Commission [ECHO], (2005). ECHO’s strategy for Sudan. http://ec.europa.eu/echo/presentation/index_en.htm
Human Rights Watch (2005). African Union and Darfur.
http://hrw.org/wr2k5/darfur/5.htm
Humanitarian Information Center for Darfur (HIC-Darfur). Darfur: IDP concentrations and refugee locations. United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs – Relief Web.
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/SKAR-64GER3?OpenDocument
North, R. Darfur’s refugees in Chad. The Magazine of The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.
http://www.redcross.int/EN/mag/magazine2005_2/index.html
Oxfam, Crisis in Darfur. http://www.oxfam.org.uk/what_we_do/where_we_work/sudan/emergency/updatesitutation.
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Hi Caro,
I think you're right when you say that not everybody knows what is going on there. We hear some bits of information but no one really know. As I'm also interested in the Genocide of Rwanda, I'm sure i'm going to find out really interesting things. I also heard that Romeo Dallaire was taking part to the debate about the Darfour Crisis. Maybe you could find some links and pieces of information with his experience. Good subject! Keep going!
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