Genocide In Darfur

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As we said that the presence of number of institutions and famous political figures in the Bush Administration led Former President Bush and Collin Powel, Former Secretary of State openly to announce the condition in Darfur region to be genocide 9th June, 2004. Therefore activists emerged with the campaign of “Save Darfur” which was supported by the political figures, institutions, and celebrities who were demonstrated in Washington DC on 30th April, 2006 to show their feelings and attention for what was happening in Darfur region. In addition to that Bush administration continuously avowed that defending humanitarian assistance and ultimately brings back peace and stability in the region is the administration’s main concern, but at the same …show more content…

The time prior starting his presidential campaign, President Barack Obama had, on numerous occasions, uttered the importance of stopping genocide and atrocities in Darfur region. Therefore, in his administration President Obama had continued unilateral economic sanctions and the total of robust peacekeeping troops deployed in Darfur reached 20,000. In his first term in the Office, President Obama appointed Scott Gration, a retired Air force major to fill up the position of Special Envoy to Sudan. But, Mr. Gration had been condemned for being exceedingly accommodating and appeasing to the Khartoum government with considered to US policy to Sudan since he openly opposed the ICC’s second arrest warrant to Sudanese President, Omar Al-Bashir by explaining that the warrant would make his job …show more content…

Mukesh Kapila, the UNHCS cautioned of the correspondence between the condition in Darfur region and that of Rwanda. In the same vein, Mr. Tom Eric Vraalsen, the UN Secretary General’s Special Envoy for Humanitarian Affairs in Sudan entitled the condition in Darfur as one among the most horrible in the world. Also, in April 2004 US unilateral reported to the UNCHR that violence such as rape and tribal cleansing took place in Darfur. Likewise, on May 2004 the HRW also affirmed the possibility of culpability and crime against humanity committed by the Sudanese government. In addition to that, on 16th Sept. 2004, the EU Assembly described the Sudanese government’s action as the ‘tantamount to genocide’ and in 1st June 2004 a Former President George W. Bush declared the condition in Darfur as genocide. Therefore, the international community was pressured to take immediate actions to terminate and control the

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