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The UN has received word of a bombing in the Jabel Moun area of western Darfur, residents of the area have said some 114 people could have been killed, and many have fled their homes into neighboring Chad. So far additional help has been declined and only African troops are being allowed to come and help. Hopefully this can all be resolved soon.

~one9

In a recent article, china has finally began to start pressuring Sudan about the growing crisis in Darfur. China, under pressure, has asked the Sudanese government to start doing more to help the people in Darfur. One of the reasons that China has finally decided to help is because of renown film director Steven Speilburg. Who has dropped out of helping the Chinese with the upcoming Olympics. China has pressured Sudan but so far only 9,000 of the 26,000 troops sent to help have been deployed.

~one9

Today in an article,  President Bush displeasure with the situation in Darfur was stated. Bush expressed frustration about the crisis in Darfur and has given 12 out of the 100 million contribution to Rawanda, to help with a 7000 troop deploment in western Darfur. I think that this cotribution is a good idea, but this is 5 years to late. This needed to have been done much earlier, but this is a good, very important step for the people in Darfur.

~One9

Classification: People are distinguished into an “us and them” type situation based on ethnicity, race, religion, or nationality.

Symbolization: Names  or symbols are given, and are distinguished by colors or dress.

Dehumanization: One group denies the humanity of another group, members of the dehumanized group are equated with animals, vermin, insects or disease.

Organization:Genocide is organized, usually by the states but also informally.

Polarization: Hate groups broadcast propaganda, and extremists drive the groups apart.

Identification: Victims are identified and separated out because of their ethnic or religious identity.

Extermination:Quickly becomes mass killings legally called “genocide”, it is “extermination” to the killers because they do not believe that their victims are fully human.

Denial:The perpetrators of the genocide attempt to deny that they have commited any crimes, and offen blame what happened on the victims.

~One9

Today, everyone in mrmayo’s class was assigned to find a post on the trouble in Darfur that is also about the Olympics.   A brief summary of the problems is this: Because of China continuing to stop and drastic actions people are unhappy with the thought of the Olympics appearing in China.  The reason China is doing this is that a large percentage of China’s oil comes form Sudan and does not want that to be jepordized. Apparently renown film director Steven Spielberg was helping China with a project regarding the Olympics and has just recently decided to pull out. This is going to have a big impact and hopefully everything can be solved peacefully. To see the artilce please follow this link: http://www.newsday.com/news/opinion/ny-vpdar155577888feb15,0,5682022.story

~one9 

Today in mrmayo’s class we all read a article on Frederick Douglas. Frederick Douglas was an extraordinary man, he was an abolitionist, an a human rights, and a woman’s rights activist. Douglass dedicated his life to helping people in need and achieving justice for all. In addition to being such a dedicated activist Douglass served as an advisor to presidents. He served as US Marshall of the District of Columbia during the term of Rutherford B. Hayes. President James Garfield also appointed him as the District of Columbia’s Recorder of Deeds. Then in 1889 President Benjamin Harrison appointed him to be the US minister in Haiti. Later he was appointed to serve as Secretary of  the Commission  of Santo Domingo.

Douglass was born into slavery but escaped to the north at age 20. Then he settled down in Massachusetts where he stayed with his wife and join the abolitionist movement.

Aside to being an abolitionist Douglass had his own weekly newspaper called the North Star.

Douglass played an important role in many different rights movements and will be remembered as a important part in the road to justice.

~one9

In this post ill be telling you about somethig called “Many Voices for Darfur” Its a blog about the situation in Darfur. But what the cool thing is that on March 6th the blog will be open for thoughtful, well writen comments about Darfur awarness and ideas for taking action. I urge anyone that is reading this to go on march 6th and leave a comment, if they get enough maybe something will change! The url is: http://manyvoicesdarfur.blogspot.com/.

Thanks!

~One9  

For anyone that has been to my site you will notice that i have made a small adition. If you scroll down, near my blogroll you will see a small map. If you click on this map you will see small red dots..these are the places people have visited from. At the moment i have barely any so i encourage you to come view my site! Also feel free to check out my friends blogs using the blogroll, and if you want to comment on our posts. To do this scroll down a bit to the “comment” button and their you go.

Thats all,

~one9

This post today is a summary of an article that i have just read about the situation in Darfur. For those of you that don’t know their is genocide going on in Darfur. The Sudanese government has done nothing and is actually arming the janjaweed, which are the tribe that is committing the genocide. No one is helping and the crisis is forcing to make the refugees to flee into the neighboring country of Chad. However in the article a coup is going on in Chad, and if the rebels succeed it could seriously jeopardize the refugees that are there. Another problem is the safety of the aid workers there. No one knows how this coup will play out, but if the rebels win this will spell disaster for refugees and aid workers there.

As always, please feel free to leave a comment.

~One9