This information is important to know because this is an event that has been occuring for over 6years and over 400,000 lives have been lost. This is an international crisis, a "genocide" in which we all should know about. We all should know how this genocide started and how people are helping for example "the doctors without borders" and the UN peacekeepers.
About the size of Texas, the Darfur region of Sudan is home Darfur, Sudan
Submitto racially mixed tribes of settled peasants, who identify as African, and nomadic herders, who identify as Arab. The majority of people in both groups are Muslim.
In the ongoing genocide, African farmers and others in Darfur are being systematically displaced and murdered at the hands of the Janjaweed, a government-supported militia recruited from local Arab tribes. The genocide in Darfur has claimed 400,000 lives and displaced over 2,500,000 people. More than one hundred people continue to die each day; five thousand die every month.
Government neglect has left people throughout Sudan poor and voiceless and has caused conflict throughout the country. In February 2003, frustrated by poverty and neglect, two Darfurian rebel groups launched an uprising against the Khartoum government. Submitted by root on Thu, 2006-07-06 19:37. :: -->
About the size of Texas, the Darfur region of Sudan is home to racially mixed tribes of settled peasants, who identify as African, and nomadic herders, who identify as Arab. The majority of people in both groups are Muslim.
In the ongoing genocide, African farmers and others in Darfur are being systematically displaced and murdered at the hands of the Janjaweed, a government-supported militia recruited from local Arab tribes. The genocide in Darfur has claimed 400,000 lives and displaced over 2,500,000 people. More than one hundred people continue to die each day; five thousand die every month.
Government neglect has left people throughout Sudan poor and voiceless and has caused conflict throughout the country. In February 2003, frustrated by poverty and neglect, two Darfurian rebel groups launched an uprising against the Khartoum government.
http://www.darfurscores.org/darfur
http://www.un.org/en/peacekeeping/missions/unamid/
http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/news/article.cfm?id=4836&cat=field-news
Monica--or anyone--WHY should we know this? And why should we CARE?
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