Homework #3

1. Who is John Garang de Mabior?

He was a government army officer sent to quell a mutiny. He was one amoung 500 troops who was disobeing the orders to be shipped north. He was the first one to wirte the story of the Sudan People's Liberation Army. He also encouraged the mutinies in other garrisons. He also was at the head of the reballion against the Khartoum government.

2. Who are the Dinka people of Sudan?

The Dinka people of sudan was divided into 5 distinctive groups.The Dinka people make up a majority of the rebel army, and John Garang, the rebel leader, is a Dinka. Also the Dinka people is rejected because their religion is Christianity.But many has been claimed to be Christians some will not be knowned as a Muslim.

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3. What is the SPLM/A?

SPLM is known as the Sudan Peoples Liberation Movement. The SPLM was involved in the civil war five Years after oil was found in southern sudan in 1978. The SPLA was discovered in 1983 when Lieutenant Colonel John Garang was sent to control 500 southern troops who were disobeying orders to be shiped north.

4. Describe the incidents, events, and developments of the genocide in Sudan?

The incidents that happened in the sudan genocide in 1985 the civil war breaks out between north and south countries. the events that happened was that 200 people was dying and president bush tried to sign a peace offering. The developments that started the war was when the african found oil and the muslims got jealous so they started to fight. 

5.Pan-Afrikanism is the unity of different people and different Afrikan nations. How would this type of unity benefit sudan?

How this could benefit sudan is because the sudan people are fighting amoung there self to much and if they become one nation and not fight against each other and help each other then millions of them wouldn't be dying. So that is what I think how it would benefit the people in  sudan. The reason why i said that  is because if people see us fighting amoung our self then other people would fight us .

homework#2

1.What events led to the outbreak of war in the DR Congo?

The first event that led to the out break of the war was when in 1994 the Hutu's fled to Congo. Also when the Tutsi went to the rwandan patriotic army invaded the Kivus to get the remaining genocidaires. While trying to get them they killed thousands along the way. So when they start killing eight other countries got involved.

2. How many have died  in this war? Over what time frame has the deaths taken place? What countries and ethnic groups are involved?

In 1994 after the genocide five million people died in the congolese conflict  in the last ten years of the war. The ethnic group that was involved was the Hutus and the tutsi government. The people involved was Congolese tutsi, Laurent Nkunda, and a former general in congos army. The people was really teriffied when the government and the Nkunda's rebels was figthing  within eachother.   

3.What do you think could happen to stop the war/genocide in Congo?

What I think could stop the genocide is to try another peace offering between them. They can also try to put all the poeple who killed the rewndan president that started the genocide should be put in jail or just kill all of them dead. Maybe they could have not allowed the hutu militias from coming in congo. They also could try to move far away from each other.   

homework

1. What factors led to the genocide in Rwanda in 1994?

The genocide began when the rewanda president Juvenal Habyarimana was killed. How he was killed was when the airplane he was in was shot down on april 6 1994. A french gudge was blamed for killling the rewandan president. So at the time the leader Paul Kagame. he was a tutsi leader and some of the people he dealt with was carrying out the rocket attack.

2. What was the time frame of the 1994 genocide and how many people died?

The time frame of the geocide was aroud april when Habyarimana's plane was shot down. This happened after several attacks of negotiation about a peace offering was signed between Habyarimana and the RPF. The number of tutsis died was 20,000 people and many of the rest fled from the neighbouring countries of Burundi,Tanzania and Uganda in 1959. The us tired to help but they withdrew after the death of 10 un soilders in 1994.

3. What were some of the after effects of the genocide?

Some after effects of the genocide was that the RPF captured Kigali and then theRPF declared a ceasefire. Then it estimated aroud two million Hutus fled from Zaire. So then after the killing of rewanda was overthe presence of Hutu militias in DR Congo has led to many years of conflict that caused as many of five million deaths. Know the worlds largest peace offering force has been hard to stop the violence.