The World Kept Quiet Silence the Genocide

Darfur Holocaust

“Genocide is underway in Darfur Sudan. Already, 50,000 African

Muslims have been killed and 1.2 million displaced by the Sudanese

Government and by Arab Janjaweed militias armed and encouraged by

Khartoum. The Bush Administration itself warned of the magnitude of the

crisis, if no action is taken. We cannot, in good conscience, stand by

and let this genocide continue.”

Barack Obama (2004)

The United Nations are fighting to make a world in which tyranny and aggression cannot exist; a world

based upon freedom, equality, and justice; a world in which all persons

regardless of race, color, or creed may live in peace, honor, and dignity. In the

meantime in most of Europe and in parts of Asia the systematic torture and murder of civilians by the Nazis

and the Japanese continue unabated. In areas subjugated by the

aggressors, these innocent people are being starved or frozen to death or

murdered in cold blood in a campaign of savagery.

Franklin D Roosevelt (March 24, 1944)

Genocide

the deliberate and systematic destruction of a racial, political, or cultural group

Purpose of this Presentation

Look at common threads among genocidal actions to prevent in the future

See what, if anything the world has learned from the Holocaust

Darfur

1st Sudanese Civil War 1955 -19722nd Sudanese Civil war 1983 -2005

Darfur 2003 - present

Holocaust

November 1938 - May 1945

Analyzing the Years…

What do you think are the differences?

What were the similarities?What were the differences?

Could you tell the two time periods apart?

Why?What about these victim groups caused anger within their perpetrators?

How did the hatred of Jews differ from Sudanese civilians?

Causes Holocaust

These three fallacies are the most likely culprits:

Scapegoat - Jews were easy to single out and blame.

Outsiders - Jews were different. Racial Theory - Jews were

inferior to the ideal Aryan race

Darfur

1984-1985 drought shrunk grazing resources, causing conflicts with

agriculturalists.

Like the South, Darfur suffered from underdevelopment in both colonial

and postcolonial eras.

The Sudanese government is trying to remain in power and the country

under control.While ethnicity remains a key issue because both rebel and janjaweed are Muslim

In both cases, the ruling group/extremists needed the help of who to carry out their genocide?

What differences existed in the manner these genocides were carried out?

Methods Holocaust

Nazi soldiers, officers, civilians

Shooting squads

Lethal injection, poisonous gas, mobile killing units, extermination camps, cremation, forced labor, starvation, exposure, brutality,

disease, execution

Darfur

Janjaweed MilitiasGovernment sponsored terror

Destruction of towns, food and water supplies

Millions threatened bystarvation, rape murder

Firearms, machetes, and a variety of

garden implements

Affected Population

Darfur

Refugees 157,220 (Eritrea)

25,023 (Chad)11,009 (Ethiopia)7,895 (Uganda)

5,023 (Central African Republic)Internally Displaced Persons 5,300,000

Civilian Deaths - 400,000

= 5,906,170 and counting

Holocaust

Jews - 5,900,000Soviet POWs - 2,500,000Ethnic Poles - 1,900,000

Roma - 360,000Disabled - 225,000

Freemasons - 140,000Homosexuals - 15,000

Jehovah's Witnesses - 5,000Displaced Persons

9,500,000

= 11,045,000 killed

20,545,000

Remember, behind each number is a real person with a real family and real hopes and dreams

Are apologies enough for the failure to act on behalf of these victims?Is there anything that the world could say or do to make it right?

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”

Martin Luther King Jr.

The World Kept Quiet