About the Darfurian Genocide
The Darfurian Genocide is the current mass murder and rape of many Darfurian men, women and children in Darfur. These murders began in 2003 and still continue today. This genocide is led by a group of “government-armed and funded Arab militias". They are know as the Janjaweed. They try to get rid of the darfurian race by burning villages, polluting water sources, murdering, raping and torturing these innocent civilians. Today, 480,000 people have been killed and over 2.8 million have been taken out of their homes and villages. These terrible acts began with bombings of the Sudanese Air Force to the darfurian villages. Then the Janjaweed would come and murder all the people left the survived the bombings.
Violation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR)
This genocide ,just like all of the others, has violated many laws and violated many of the articles in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Specifically, this genocide has violated article one which is that we are all born free and equal, article number two which is don't discriminate and that these rights belong to every beside our differences. The most important in all genocides is article three. This article is the most important because it is the right to life. The Janjaweed has violated this right 480,000 times and its still counting during this genocide. In addition to the most important rights that are being violated, there are many more of the thirty rights being violated in this genocide. Articles five, six, seven, eight, nine, twelve, thirteen, fifteen, twenty two, twenty five, twenty six, twenty eight and thirty.
Where is Darfur?
Darfur is a region in western Sudan. Sudan borders Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, South Sudan, The Central African Republic, Chad, and Libya.