South Sudan at Risk of Genocide
By Ceci Moran
South Sudan Genocide
South Sudan became an independent state on July 9 2011. Since then, however, the county of South Sudan had been plagued with governmental corruption, inter-communal violence, fighting between the rebel militia and the government and the border conflicts with Sudan. The fighting in Jonglei, South Sudan has displaced tens of the thousands and cut off life-saving aid to more than 100,000 people.
Why is South Sudan at risk of Genocide?
The reason South Sudan at risk of genocide is that the violence includes the abuses not only by the militias and the local tribes, but also by South Sudanese army officials. Additionally, South Sudan hosts some 222,000 refugees, the majority of the fleeing from the ongoing attacks by the government in Sudan's South Kordofan and Blue Nile states.
Background (History of What Led to the Point of the Genocide Risk)
The civil war between the north and the south of Sudan resulted in the deaths of an estimated two million people and to displaced an additional four million of people. Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir's forces not only directly by attacking the South but also manipulated tribal tensions to create internal of the conflict that still persists today.
Current Info (The Groups That Are Against Each Other, What They Are Mad About, etc.)
South Sudan's independence, over one thousand people have been killed as a result of the ethnic violence in Jonglei and tens of the thousands more have been injured and displaced, with an estimated of 100,000 cut off from life-saving aid in July 2013.
Preventing Genocide in South Sudan
Not in Syria, Central African Republic, or Darfur is the threat of the targeting on the basis of the identity so immediate as it is for the certain ethnic of the groups in vulnerable areas of South Sudan. Given back the lack of the protection by Juba government forces the inability of the currently deployed UN troops to protect large numbers of people, and in the absence of significantly greater protection from the border of the international community, hundreds of thousands of people are likely die in the coming of the months, whether directly though targeted violence or indirectly though hunger. It is an urgent crisis and yet the world's response has been in no way of comparable to the threats civilians now face on a daily basis.
Genocide Actions by Government of North Sudan Must be Stopped
The government of Sudan is reported to have been carrying out the activities of the torture and mayhem in the South Kordofan, which could best be described as ethnic cleansing. many of the time when the government of Sudan is exposed on human rights abuses, it employs that the fact that there is a picture that it is not in the good books of the west, and therefore writes it off as western propaganda.
Obama Backs Genocidal Government in South Sudan
The government's troops are claiming that the rebels are abducting civilians, arming them, and forcing them to fight against the government. Of course a government in retreat and facing an angry armed population would make these claims. Meanwhile, that same government has slaughtered thousands of civilians in door to door operations that particularly target the Nuer nationally. Despite these well documented genocidal attacks on the population, President Obama has pledged his support for the government.