Who really has knowledge of the Darfur genocide? Did you even know there was a genocide occurring in Darfur at this very moment? Do you even know where Darfur is or that it was even a place before reading this? Why doesn’t anyone know anything about this? The answer to that question is because there are no news reports. People are ignoring the fact that its a genocide because they don’t want to get involved.
The Darfur genocide, according to Peter Moszynski of the British Medical Journal, has taken the lives of over 70,000 people, men women and children. Some feel that we are not moving fast to deal with the situation in Darfur. Imagine that. Imagine all your friends and neighbors and their children being murdered for no real reason at all. That would wipe out an entire community, and the worst part about it is that we know that these killings are taking place and we aren’t doing anything about it.
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A million people have been chased from their homes in the west of Sudan and thousands have been murdered or raped. Hundreds of thousands face imminent death from starvation and disease. The Sudanese government is refusing to let people such as reporters or peacekeepers into Darfur for fear of them entering Chad because it is so dangerous. The United Nations recently called it the world's biggest humanitarian disaster.(Kenneth Roth,NewYorkTimes.com)
Aisha Bain and Adam Shapiro went into Darfur and talked to the Darfur people who have experienced these terrible things. “You use a gun to kill something. The government uses Arabs like his gun to kill us”(Darfur Diaries Stories of Survival). The man who said that has been targeted by people that he used to attend high school with. He knew them as nice people and they all got along, but because of the government they are now merciless killers.
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The genocide continues to get worse and worse everyday and a lot of people in the world are left with the question why and how. Why are the Darfurians doing this to their own people and how can they be so inhumane. Even the thought that someone could so aimlessly kill and rape so many thousands of men women and children is not even comprehensible. It’s sickening. Think if you were in that situation. Could you force yourself to kill someone that you once used to call a friend. Could you kill a small child's parents and make them watch you kill their parents before you kill them? Imagine you had a little girl or maybe your aunt or mom. Could you watch them get raped and murdered and not do anything about it? You would be angry is something like this were to happen. The one difference between that happening here and it happening there is, we can do something about it. We could catch their killers and lock them away. They can't. They can’t do anything to stop the killings because if someone speaks out about it they are killed or captured and tortured for what they’ve done.
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Now, you may be asking yourself what can I do to help these poor suffering people? In America we can help the Darfurians by signing petitions to send people over there to help them. We can write letters to senators or people who could listen to us that could have some say in the matter as to what is going to happen there. We can push people to make decisions faster by making signs and chanting that something has to be. We can get the word out that what’s going on is inhumane and it something needs to be done about it. If people feel strongly enough about it then something will be done about it. If we don’t do anything, that makes us just as inhumane as the people who are killing.
The hook of your oped really hooks my attention. By reading the hook, I wanted to read more and more. You also convinced me to help by writing letters to senators or people that would listen. Reading this reminds me about learning the Tutsis because the tutsis were hunted, tortured, and massacred on the streets which makes me want to do something about it because it is really frustrating.
ReplyDeleteThe Darfur Genocide get's shocking more and more everyday. And with the statistic that the Genocide has taken away of 70,000 lives is just unbelievably sad. I feel like as a community and as a country there aren't enough people that are aware this is going and not enough people with the ambition to stop it. We need create change ,because whether it's happening here or not Genocide is something that affects us all.
ReplyDeleteThe title really hooked my attention and because I learned about the horrendous Rwandan genocide I wanted to read more in depth about genocides occurring right now. i think it is completely unjust that the media is not showing us what is happening in the world around us but discussing useless information that won't affect me in life.
ReplyDeletei liked your introduction. it starts by making the reader think. you have a good chunk of logos. what you can do is talk about the book more. how did this book you read strengthen your knowledge on this topic?
ReplyDeleteIt's true the media only discusses things that effect us. The genocide is completely the opposite of what is happening in my book. In my book the Arabs are being told to move in your book the Arabs are trying to make people move(or worse).
ReplyDeleteThe hook you have is very catchy. It makes the reader attracted. Like you said many people most likely don't know about the genocide in Darfur, so that will make the audience dig deeper, and want to find out about this topic.
ReplyDeleteThe hook is very catchy, like it immediately called my attention. I liked how you question the reader in every paragraph which makes the reader keep on reading. Maybe you could of have added the reason why of the genocide. I am not an expert on this topic and so during the reading I was still asking myself why, but therest is really good.
ReplyDeleteI liked how you grabbed the readers attention by starting your Op-Ed off with questions. They cause me as the reader to really sit back and think and it engaged me in your writing.You cause me to acknowledge the genocide in Darfur and from your writing I learned more about the tradgedy. Great job.
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