Racism in Darfur

         For centuries now, our existence has pushed us in the wrong direction. Due to our evil nature numerous fights have erupted around the globe. Most of these conflicts are originated from the ignorance of most people. Sadly they keep existing, they generate so much chaos as it involuntarily spreads slowly until our whole community is affected by it. We don’t really want to believe it’s happening. It really is an impossible mission, for us to pursue our dreams in a good manner but to forget about what is revolving around us. The minimum efforts some say, are ‘futile’ but little they know that collectively these contributions have a great impact on people’s desperate conditions, the way people are judged because of their appearance in continents like Africa. In Africa peacefully coexisted regions where humans worked together, where they helped each other out and made a living. Religion played a huge role in these regions. A variety of religions was then mixed in after the Europeans took control of the continent. Religion was the cause for this little region in Africa called Darfur to form minor conflicts that over time developed into huge ordeals. These ordeals have turned into violence, into a mass killing, a genocide. Meaning thousands of innocent people are suffering and dying because of racial discrimination or other un explainable motives.

         The racial war in Darfur has been proceeding to the point where right now nobody is really trying to prevent it from ending. It has gotten to the point where it is now truly unstoppable. It started in February 2003, when the Sudan liberation movement and justice and equality movement groups in Darfur took up arms as they accused the Sudanese government of the oppressing of non-arab Sudanese in favor of Sudanese Arabs. The Arab government has sought only to destroy the blacks in this biracial nation. “Jihad inspired by racism, in-turn inspired by political ambition. The government of Sudan is supporting the genocide and slavery and arming the Janjaweed. It is the very same method used against the non-Muslims, and the world stood back and barely lifted a finger to aid Sudan then, and hasn't made a move yet on the current atrocities. But international pressure is mounting”. (Fein. 1990) At last, this explains why the atrocities are still occurring. As we look deep into this situation, people who are in Darfur cannot escape from the country. The government constantly lies about everything, it traps the people inside and suffocates them.

         In the book Darfur Diaries by Jen Marlowe, a young girl named Sami recounts her story in Darfur as she describes how the people felt once she entered the country. 
“One Darfurian, Salih Bob said ‘I’m quite sure if this happened in Los Angeles from your own government or in newcastle from the British government . . . all the world will hear you and help would come.  But our case is different.  Nobody is listening.”
Sami is going through the same problem, though she is rather confused because she expected Darfur to be a good place to visit while everyone she meets seems rather terrified. They are the victims of the Janjaweed, they are the governments enemy. There is solely no reason why they should exist and it’s only because of what race you belong to. The children attend for no one’s rescue because they know that nobody will save them which is rather depressing.

So many women inside this country have been abused, so many men and children killed, colossal amounts of houses destroyed.  People have lost hope because the people in america simply ‘don’t want to listen’ or simply don’t care at all. The Janjaweed was what was causing so much havoc, and through racial framing, the Sudanese government mobilized it towards much death and destruction. The separation between muslims and blacks was so intense that it the U.N has no reason to interfere. It is such a complex matter almost impossible for anyone to understand. 
“The aggregation and concentration of racial epithets during attacks created a collective effect that intensified the severity of genocidal violence. Collective dehumanization processes place groups outside the normative universe of moral protection, leaving them vulnerable to targeted genocidal victimization.”(Katz 1998) This can be categorized more as a moral belief. 

Collocated to these effects is also the fact that this issue transformed from a religious matter to an ethnic matter. There is an approximate 600 Sudanese tribes fully equipped in Darfur and an Arab Apartheid. If we want to analyze in depth why this racial war is still taking place you would have to look for answers in Darfur. There is very little that we could really do to stop this from occurring since the ethnic battle is way too intense for anyone to handle or to comprehend. We can collectively liberate the innocent that in this very moment are suffering by making small contributions and then hopefully await the day that this ethnic battle disappears.