Darfur Genocide

To most people around the world the fact that the conflict in the Darfur region of the Sudan is genocide. A genocide similar to the holocaust of the Jews during WWII. Both the holocaust and the Darfur genocide have many similarities and differences. The holocaust was to exterminate all Jewish people. In Darfur the conflict is not against two different religions but instead against two different races. Like the holocaust many innocent civilians have lost their lives in both genocides. There many similarities and differences between both the Darfur genocide and the holocaust.

Both the genocide in Darfur and the holocaust have been the acts of racist leaders that want to eliminate a race completely. Hitler tried to kill the Jews because of his hatred against them. President Omar al-Bashir is trying to kill all of the non-arabs living in the Darfur region. In the holocaust many people were killed by the Nazi military as well as in concentration camps. The Sudanese government is using the Janjaweed as a military force that is trying to kill non-Arabs living in the Sudan. Both the Nazis and the Janjaweed used military weapons to kill their targets.

Unlike the Jews the non-Arabs took up arms in order to stop the racist discrimination of the Sudanese government. The non-Arab rebels slowly became more powerful and led successful raids against the Sudanese military. This resulted in the government of Sudan arming the Janjaweed with heavy military equipment and training, and aerial raids against the rebels. Instead of the government directly killing innocent non-Arab civilians they chose the Janjaweed to do it. This way the Sudanese could deny direct military involvement in the genocide. The Janjaweed who face resistance from the rebels are often backed by government forces in their raids of villages. In the holocaust the Nazis did not take such a fancy approach to avoid international pressure for the genocide. Instead they just rounded up the Jews put them in ghettos and had them killed. Hitler knew that nobody could really stop him and even if they could that wasn't the Allies main objective.

When countries were informed of the treatment of Jews during the holocaust most of the countries denied it. Not because the evidence wasn't clear enough but because they didn't want to prioritize the freedom of the Jews. The world was already to busy with a war against the Nazis and Hitler. In the Darfur region today many countries worldwide are calling the conflict genocide. There really isn't much military action that is being taken to bring peace to Darfur either. This is mainly because of large military powers such as China and Russia's relationship with the ruthless government of the Sudan. Although there are a lot of non-government