The emergency in Sudan’s western region of Darfur presents the starkest challenge to the world since the Rwanda genocide in 1994.
A government-backed Arab militia known as Janjaweed has been engaging in campaigns to displace and wipe out communities of
African tribal farmers. Villages have been razed, women and girls are systematically raped and branded, men and boys murdered,
and food and water supplies targeted and destroyed. Government aerial bombardments support the Janjaweed by hurling explosives
as well as barrels of nails, car chassis and old appliances from planes to crush people and property. A quarter of a milion
people have died.
Well over a million people have been driven from their homes, and only in the past few weeks have humanitarian agencies gained
limited access to some of the affected region.
Mukesh Kapila, the former United Nations humanitarian coordinator, that the violence in Darfur is “more than a conflict,
it's an organized attempt to do away with one set of people.” The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum has issued its first
ever genocide emergency. The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) estimates that 350,000 people
or more could die in the coming months. Ongoing assessments by independent organizations such as Medecins sans Frontieres
(Doctors without Borders) suggest that USAID’s estimate may be conservative. If aid is denied or unavailable, as many
as a million people could perish. Click on the banner on the left to stop this genocide.
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