Darfur Genocide 2006

Since the genocide began in early 2003, approximately 3 million members of the Fur, Masalit and Zaghawa tribes in Darfur, Sudan, have been displaced and 200-400,000 people have been killed.

Here's an audio slideshow titled On The Ground in Darfur.

Here's a short but powerful video about the Darfur genocide that one of my students from last year found. This video is a great place to start if you want to introduce someone (or yourself) to the issue.

The NewsHour on PBS just covered Darfur on April 25.

And here's an excellent hour-long program from the U.S. Holocaust Museum about Darfur, from April 17.

An extensive collection of resources about Darfur is available further down on this website.

If you care about the ongoing genocide in the Sudan, there's a Rally to Stop Genocide on Sunday, April 30, on the National Mall in Washington, DC. Many speakers will be there, and it will be a great way to get ideas about how to put increasing pressure on Congress and President Bush to do more to help end this genocide.

Here's a fact sheet about the rally, which runs from 2-4:30 p.m. A group of us will meet near the National Gallery at 12:30 p.m. for lunch. If you are interested in joining us, please email me and I'll get you more details.

click on the map below to make it easier to read

The rally will take place on the Mall between 3rd and 4th Streets, NW, right in front of the U.S. Capitol.
(just south of the East building of the National Gallery of Art on the map above)

Here's a picture of what the rally site looked like the day before the rally:


And here's what it looked like on the day of the rally, from the viewpoint of ABC's Will Bressman.

Below is an extensive collection of materials about Darfur:

The New York Times' Nicholas Kristof (who just won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for his commentary) recently made his sixth trip to the Darfur area. This time, his multimedia presentation comes from the Chad-Darfur border.

For more information, see this Flash Video and this page with a link to more video.

PBS's NewsHour, on Feb 16, interviewed Senators Barack Obama (D-Ill) and Sam Brownback (R-KS) about the situation in Darfur.

Although there is no video we know of that shows the villages being attacked by planes, helicopters, and janjaweed (armed men on horses or camels), some children in refugee camps in Chad made some drawings of what happened to them.

Here's a video that explains more about these images drawn by children.

Then, look at this video of destroyed villages.

This is a documentary on the crisis in Darfur made by IRIN, the U.N.'s Integrated Regional Information Network.

And these pictures from a series titled In Darfur, My Camera Was Not Nearly Enough.

The targeted groups of the genocide are the Fur, the Masalit and the Zaghawa.

Eric Reeves has an amazing blog on Darfur. He's an English professor at Smith College, and he has spent the past seven years working full-time as a Sudan researcher and analyst, publishing extensively both in the US and internationally.

The BBC has a good in-depth look at Sudan.

For some geographic perspective, see this article with accompanying maps of the area.

And look at this State Department report from 2004 (it contains many useful charts and maps).

You can also listen to Nicholas Kristof talk about the situation in Darfur with Romeo Dallaire, the U.N. commander who was powerless to stop the genocide in Rwanda in 1994.

Senator Barack Obama delivers a 7-minute podcast on 2/15/06 --
Darfur: Current Policy Not Enough.

This is an okay documentary in 10 minutes, but it will not GRAB high school students. Can we make one that will???

Again, not a bad high school effort in 2 minutes. But we can do better!

Here's a half hour report on Sudan.

And here are ten things you can do if you want to get involved in stopping the genocide in Darfur.

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