Digital story 2 Topic

Since world war one and till today war has played a major role in our history. It is violent and brutal, millions of innocent citizens are killed and they are targeted as individuals, together as a group or they are killed because they belong from a certain race, religion, nationality or simply because of their gender. This results in a genocide where people in Darfur a region in Sudan are facing. This region is home to racially mixed tribes of settled peasants, who identify as African, and nomadic herders, who identify as Arab. Majority of the people in both groups are muslim. In this war African farmers and others in Darfur are being killed by the janjaweed, which is a government-supported militia recruited from local Arab tribes. This group has caused poverty and it is destroying the country where the government is taking no control, but they are neglecting the citizens. This war has been going on since 2003, and since then 400,00 people have died, and 2,500,000 people have been displaced. More than one hundred people continue to die each day, and five thousand die every month. It is true that history repeats itself, first it was the holocaust then came the genocide in Bosnia, Cambodia, Rwanda, and now Darfur. We should all help and take action against this harsh and unnecessary move which can cause chaos for years in ones country. I chose this topic because i think this event is crucially important, it can not be ignored and people need to understand and be aware of this act because people dying and being eliminated is harmful, painful, and it creates more problems later in the future.