Today in English as part of our Exploding Walls project we watched a video on CNN news about Darfur. The US said that there would be no more genocide but whats happening now in Darfur is an example of it. It’s the first one in the 21st century. Darfur is in Sudan in Africa. Some people were rebels to the government so they hired people called Janjaweed, meaning devils on horses, to kill the rebels. In the early mornings they fly helicopters that have no real destination and drop bombs. When the people run from their houses the Janjaweed is outside and they kill the men, rape the women and kill the baby boys. Millions of people were forced to live in refugee camps in the neighboring country Chad. Women that need to cook have to go away from camps and get wood but they are scared to do that because the Janjaweed are right outside the camp and while rape women that go to far. Since Sudan is China’s primary source of oil then China defends them in UN meetings. The oil that is being sold is in Khartoum the country’s capital, so it is rich because of the money but as they get farther and farther away from it the land gets poorer and poorer; and the countryside of Darfur is one of the poorest places in the world. The conflict in Darfur started in 2003 and people knew then that the Janjaweed would go to Chad because that’s where the refugees were going but they didn’t do anything. Now they are in Chad destroying the camps and killing more people. In 2004, every month 6000 people would die in Darfur because the  representatives for Sudan always declined help.  Every meeting the UN holds they try to rid Sudan of the Janjaweed but every meeting they say no and their allies in Russia and China defend them. In 2006, 60 villages were ravaged and the inhabitants were forced to leave, scared that they would be killed or raped. In July 2007, Sudan finally agreed to let 26000 troops go in and help them, but they wanted them to be African and to not unarm the Janjaweed. They planned to send them by the end of the year. The US wants to help Sudan but they don’t want to jeopardize their relationship with China. So a final question: What is our Global Responsibility?