Hi, i don't know if the forum has already been through this topic, but well if it is so the moderator can delate it without worries.
I'm getting lately interested in what is happening in Darfur, Sudan.
For the one who don't really know about it, i have a brief summary of what i do know:
Sudan is lived by two different races, Arabs in the north and blacks in the south, which didn't like each other and fought for a long time. The north went through persistent drought, so the people moved to the West -where Darfur is- and where the southern blacks lived. So the arabs started killing the blacks,but the situation wasn't that bad. After a while the south found out that they have oil, so the arabs -which were without land because of the drought- wanted the money from it, but without sharing with the south. Therefore they had the nice idea of killing them all, because they already hated the race, and then wanted the land, so why just don't get rid of them? And this is how the genocide started.
The UN Human Rights say that whereas there's genocide, other countries have to intervent and stop it. So the big powers have tried for a while to not use the word "genocide", but now it's too much and they are forced to admit that there are "acts of genocide" (which still is not the propriate use of the word) happening there, and they "might decide to do something".
The questions i'd like you to think about are: knowing that in the UN Security Council there are nations (Sudan, Russia, China) that are getting benefits from being bystanders, what, if something, can be done to stop the war? And what do you think about the hipocrysy of the UN which is supposed to defend human rights?
Come up with everything you know, want to say, and want to ask about it to the others.
I hope i pictured the thing well, if some of the informations i've given are incorrect, please correct me ^^
You can find more tetails in articles all over the net.
I'm getting lately interested in what is happening in Darfur, Sudan.
For the one who don't really know about it, i have a brief summary of what i do know:
Sudan is lived by two different races, Arabs in the north and blacks in the south, which didn't like each other and fought for a long time. The north went through persistent drought, so the people moved to the West -where Darfur is- and where the southern blacks lived. So the arabs started killing the blacks,but the situation wasn't that bad. After a while the south found out that they have oil, so the arabs -which were without land because of the drought- wanted the money from it, but without sharing with the south. Therefore they had the nice idea of killing them all, because they already hated the race, and then wanted the land, so why just don't get rid of them? And this is how the genocide started.
The UN Human Rights say that whereas there's genocide, other countries have to intervent and stop it. So the big powers have tried for a while to not use the word "genocide", but now it's too much and they are forced to admit that there are "acts of genocide" (which still is not the propriate use of the word) happening there, and they "might decide to do something".
The questions i'd like you to think about are: knowing that in the UN Security Council there are nations (Sudan, Russia, China) that are getting benefits from being bystanders, what, if something, can be done to stop the war? And what do you think about the hipocrysy of the UN which is supposed to defend human rights?
Come up with everything you know, want to say, and want to ask about it to the others.
I hope i pictured the thing well, if some of the informations i've given are incorrect, please correct me ^^
You can find more tetails in articles all over the net.
