Today’s Talk

November 27th, 2006 by CD

Welcome back to my special series on the Darfur crisis. Today I will give you a bit more information on the humanitarian issue that is taking place. Some international organizations refuse to call the mass killings a genocide, however with the mass amounts of murders that have occurred these organizations will have to review their definitions on what a genocide is.

A U.N. court set up for probing and documenting war crimes in Darfur produced a report stating that thousands of innocent civilian deaths, hundreds of rapes and a significant number of mass murders (hundreds being killed at once) have been reported. So you ask, who exactly is committing these murders? The U.N. states that from its investigation that the Massalit, Zaghawa and Fur ethnic groups have been among the most noted in committing crimes against humanity. Moreno-Ocampo, the chief prosecutor with the International Criminal Court said “In most of the incidents … there are eyewitness accounts that the perpetrators made statements reinforcing the targeted nature of the attacks, such as ‘we will kill all the black’ and ‘we will drive you out of this land.”

So far the Sudan courts have been unwilling to conduct and prosecute their citizens involved with these atrocities. It is my belief that only when the Sudan government realizes there is a grave problem within their country in addition to accepting international help in terms of a peace force and legal expertise that the humanitarian crisis will end.

Read more here:

Introduction 101
Introduction 151

UNICEF and their effort with the crisis
Office report from the International Commission (PDF)