Genocide in Darfur: Lessons for the World

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Genocide in Darfur Lessons for the World
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The US Holocaust Memorial Museum issues its
first-ever Genocide Emergency in June 2004 based
on indicators.
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• SUDAN
• Former British colony
• Largest Country in Africa
• Darfur the size of Texas
• Historical marginalization
• Complex internal historical
• tensions Arab vs. non Arabs,
• scarce resources,
• desertification, farmers vs.
• herders
• 1990s GOS arms Arab herders
• 2003 non Arabs demand
• greater representation
• Rebels attack military
• Compounds
• GOS/Janjaweed launch massive assaults
• Since early 2003, GOS forces and Janjaweed
  militia have destroyed an estimated 3,000 non
  Arab villages. Between 120,000 and 400,000
  people have died.

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c) Deliberately inflicting on the group
conditions of life calculated to bring about its
physical destruction in whole or in part
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We want to go home.
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For us to return, we need to be assured our
village will not be attacked again.
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Let us Remember what hurts the Victim most
is not the Cruelty of the Oppressor but the
Silence of the Bystander. Elie Wiesel