Tuesday, May 22, 2007

Darfur terror reaches genocide

By:Ashley Ewen and Janae Murphy

Our agricultural-science world history class at Tracy High School is studying genocide and the effects it has on countries, people and the world. We have recently focused our attention on Darfur, Sudan.

In Darfur, there is a major genocide. The government, along with the country’s militia group, the Janjaweed, is wreaking havoc on the innocent civilians who have the same ethnicity as the country’s rebel groups. Our class would like to bring awareness to the issues in this place of terror.

Recent acts of terror, such as murder, starvation, rape, disease, mutilation, burning of homes and villages, and the use of gunships are acts that can easily be compared to the Holocaust and the Rwandan genocide in 1994. The fatality rate is reaching 100,000 victims a month. Lives are taken in various ways, including government-deployed gunship units. These units carry 20 rockets, which each contain 500 fléchettes (tiny nails). These rockets are shot at civilians, and each does as much damage as a bullet. There is no high medical attention in the area, so most of the victims are left to suffer an agonizing death. Read more >>>>>>>

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