Darfur Genocide Video - Personal Account An American Witness

Darfur Region - Sudan Genocide on border of Chad and the doorway to the Arab worlds. The Darfur conflict is a complex crisis in the Darfur region of western Sudan. One side of the armed conflict is composed mainly of the Sudanese military and the Janjaweed, a militia group recruited mostly from the tribes of the northern Rizeigat, camel-herding nomads. The other side comprises a variety of rebel groups, notably the Sudan Liberation Movement and the Justice and Equality Movement, recruited primarily from the land-tilling Fur, Zaghawa, and Massaleit ethnic groups. The Sudanese government, while publicly denying that it supports the Janjaweed, has provided money and assistance to the militia and has participated in joint attacks targeting the tribes from which the rebels draw support.The conflict began in February 2003. Unlike in the Second Sudanese Civil War, which was fought between the primarily Muslim north and Christian and Animist south, almost all of the combatants and victims in Darfur are Muslim. The government and Janjaweed attacks upon the non-Baggara civilian populace have resulted in a major humanitarian crisis. There are many casualty estimates, most concurring on a range within the hundreds of thousands. The United Nations (UN) estimates that the conflict has left as many as 450,000 dead from violence and disease. Most NGOs (non-governmental organizations) use 200,000 to over 400,000, a figure from the Coalition for International Justice that has since been cited by the UN. Sudan's government claims that over 9,000 people have been killed, although this figure is seen as counterfactual. As many as 2.5 million are thought to have been displaced as of October 2006. Creative Commons license: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike.

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• Darfur
• genocide
• Sudan
• Arab
• Arabs
• Chad
• Sudanese
• Janjaweed
• Rizeigat
• Liberation
• Movement
• Fur
• Zaghawa
• Massaleit
• Muslim
• NGOs

[truthspeaker1960]

KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK YOUR VIDEO TOUCHED MY HEART

[rosaryfilms]

@truthspeaker1960 - thank you for watching!

[misstinywho]

Very touching. Thank you for sharing.

[rosaryfilms]

@misstinywho - you are welcome!

[griceh]

This video really touched my heart. Thanks for posting and GOD BLESS YOU!

[rosaryfilms]

@griceh - thank you very much for your comments!

[SabitoshCa]

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[SabitoshCa]

nyaan

[nmikmik]

Appreciate you sharing your story...My eyes are opened a lot more about the horrific things that happen in other countries.. I think we all grow up and get used to the kind of lifestyle that the United States offers us...We are often unaware of the world around us. Thank you for sharing.

[BashirHKH]

correction she was 9!!!!!

[KisSteele]

Poo on you 15 people! The genocide is real & scarey- people like him make the difference

[hilletehnoob]

SaY thanks to multiculturalism,soon enough this will be happening all over europe if minorities keep growing,europe(and maybe USA) will be a giant yugoslavia,thank you leftists!

[jsuswaram]

Sir,

You are a true American and world hero..we need more of you to undo what politicians do with their greed.

god bless and best of luck.

[Caanos88]

Hi have you ever been to Somalia??I strongly advice you to see the movie "Attack on Darfur", its about journalists too..

Keep up the good work..