A girl screams for her mother as she hears the shotgun piercing through her ears. She saw as the men in the uniform, the bad nightmares, break into her house. She saw as her dad collapsed, groaning and shrieking in agony, clutching his body. She saw her mother kicking and screaming, telling her to run. The girls vision was blurry, overflowing with pain, but she knew this day was going to come, so she ran. A genocide in Sudan has been occurring for a while now, it started on February 26, 2003 and it is still happening to this day. The “Darfur Genocide” refers the Janjaweed militia in Sudan that, “systematically destroy Darfurians by burning villages, looting economic resources, polluting water sources, and murdering, raping, and torturing civilians”(“Darfur
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The students in the genocide class in Ledyard High School should be activist locally and statewide to raise awareness to the Darfur genocide in Sudan so that the government can commit more aid to the issue.
Many people are getting displaced from their homes and getting dangerous diseases from camps they are staying at due to the shortage of supplies. The ongoing bombings worsened the effects of climate change in sudan because “Indiscriminate aerial bombardments and ground attacks are preventing farmers from planting crops in the southern border regions of South Kordofan and Blue Nile, and denial of international humanitarian aid has set up a crisis that could near famine conditions”(“Sudan”). Their way of surviving is being threatened and the international community is not doing anything about it. Bombings are destroying villages and leaving no farms to return to. If the government can step up and stop these bombings it can change the lives of those in these situations. Some make it out alive and get to live in camps, but "these perilous conditions put the children of Darfur at high risk for catching dysentery, cholera and hepatitis – all deadly killers" ("Fighting Deadly Diseases in Darfur"). Many kids are dying, more …show more content…
Rape has become a weapon in this genocide, “The 48-page report... documents Sudanese army attacks in which at least 221 women and girls were raped in Tabit over 36 hours beginning on October 30, 2014"( "Sudan: Mass Rape by Army in Darfur"). This mass rape is being used as a weapon by the sudanese government, treating women as tools, instead of human beings. Not only is it turning these women's life upside down but it is abusing their rights. The U.S. government should step in to stop using rape as a weapon. Plenty of children are being born out of sexual violence which can harm the mental health of the mother and the child born. The unfortunate mothers and children that are placed in this situation feel ashamed and along the road are discriminated. Their opportunities in social, education, and health decrease ( "A violent Legacy of Conflict in Darfur"). People who already faced this violence should not feel like there is no hope. Society as a whole needs to show encouragement and empathy towards them instead of treating them like a lost cause. The U.S. government can help by increasing their opportunities of education and help them get back the life they deserve. Young girls as old as six were being raped. Many of the capable females get pregnant and get infected with STDs, because the soldiers are ordered to rape multiple
The students in the genocide class in Ledyard High School should be activist locally and statewide to raise awareness to the Darfur genocide in Sudan so that the government can commit more aid to the issue.
Many people are getting displaced from their homes and getting dangerous diseases from camps they are staying at due to the shortage of supplies. The ongoing bombings worsened the effects of climate change in sudan because “Indiscriminate aerial bombardments and ground attacks are preventing farmers from planting crops in the southern border regions of South Kordofan and Blue Nile, and denial of international humanitarian aid has set up a crisis that could near famine conditions”(“Sudan”). Their way of surviving is being threatened and the international community is not doing anything about it. Bombings are destroying villages and leaving no farms to return to. If the government can step up and stop these bombings it can change the lives of those in these situations. Some make it out alive and get to live in camps, but "these perilous conditions put the children of Darfur at high risk for catching dysentery, cholera and hepatitis – all deadly killers" ("Fighting Deadly Diseases in Darfur"). Many kids are dying, more …show more content…
Rape has become a weapon in this genocide, “The 48-page report... documents Sudanese army attacks in which at least 221 women and girls were raped in Tabit over 36 hours beginning on October 30, 2014"( "Sudan: Mass Rape by Army in Darfur"). This mass rape is being used as a weapon by the sudanese government, treating women as tools, instead of human beings. Not only is it turning these women's life upside down but it is abusing their rights. The U.S. government should step in to stop using rape as a weapon. Plenty of children are being born out of sexual violence which can harm the mental health of the mother and the child born. The unfortunate mothers and children that are placed in this situation feel ashamed and along the road are discriminated. Their opportunities in social, education, and health decrease ( "A violent Legacy of Conflict in Darfur"). People who already faced this violence should not feel like there is no hope. Society as a whole needs to show encouragement and empathy towards them instead of treating them like a lost cause. The U.S. government can help by increasing their opportunities of education and help them get back the life they deserve. Young girls as old as six were being raped. Many of the capable females get pregnant and get infected with STDs, because the soldiers are ordered to rape multiple