Sunday, November 4, 2007

If this continues...

If the situation in Darfur keeps on going with no action taken the situation will blow up. Nothing will be done to stop millions more from being killed. The death tolls will skyrocket and the government of the Sudan and the Janjaweed will rise in power. If they are not oppressed they will think that what they are doing is ok-they will continue to do it. Maybe they will even do worse, this will just inflate the problems and they might take more drastic measures. Who knows what they have the capability of doing if they have gotten away with mass murdering their own people for four years.

People are going to start thinking that ethnic cleansing is ok. If they get away with this other countries might start doing the same. Darfur is not the only country that has ethnic tension; there are hundreds of other countries that do. What is stopping them from ethnic cleansing? Just in the 90's there was ethnic cleansing in Bosnia that was responsible for the death of over 200,000 because of ethnic tension between Serbs and Muslims (http://balkansnet.org/ethnicl.html.) Also, in Rwanda, with the battle of the Hutus and the Tutsis, where 800,000 peoples lives were the cost of the ethnic hatred. (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/1288230.stm.) What is preventing situations like this from happening again if no action occurs in the Sudan? Nothing.
We can sit here and avoid the topic, while hundreds of thousands more die and add to the already over 200,000 deceased (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/sudan/.)

The last thing our world needs is another widespread issue on its hands. I feel that if nothing is done about this issue either other countries are going to start as well, or the Janjaweed and rebel forces are going to spread. Then, we will be forced to help, so will the rest of the world. If this giant explosion of violence occurs then a World War might be inevitable. The Janjaweed has grown from a small militia into this killing force. What is stopping them from taking over and gaining more power? (http://www.slate.com/id/2104210/) Dont let the force that destroyed Darfur destroy the world (http://www.janjaweed.com/.) Take action now before the situation exponentially worsens. If we dont do something now it will be an even bigger issue to deal with down the line.

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