Tuesday, February 24, 2009


1. Who is John Grange de Mabior?
John Grange was a government army officer who was sent to quell, a mutiny of 500 southern troops.jpnh went against his superiors orders and went to encourage mutinies in other garrisons and made himself the head of the rebellion against the Khartoum government. when the war ended John was the vice president for three weeks until he was killed in a helicopter crash. John was thought to be a great man. he was confident in what he did.

2. Who are the Dinka people of Sudan?
the dinka people of Sudan was a famous group in Sudan. they were famous for worshiping the sky, playing music on rams horns, and their love for roast meat. John Grange was born to this group of people.

3. What is the SPLM/A?
 SPLM OR SPLMA stands for Sudan people's liberation army(or Sudan people's liberation movement).the splm was was a government force. The splm fought in the war and people didn't know if they were fighting for independence or merely more autonomy. the splm had 12500 armed men. the splm was formed in 1983  when John Grange was sent to quell a munity in bor of 500 southern troops who were resisting orders to  rotated to the north. John was suppose to end the munity but he encouraged them and others. in doing this he set himself at the head of the rebellion against the Khartoum government.by 1991 the splm had 20000 to 30000 men.

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

the events that led up to the genocide in Sudan is on August 18 in 1955 the equatorial corps muntinied at tortit. many of the muniteers disappeared into hiding. this caused the first war in southern Sudan. in the late  1960's the war that had began resulted to the deaths of 500000 people.
 

5. Pan-Afrikanism is the unity of different African people and different African nations. How would this type of unity benefit Sudan? 
 this type of unity would benefit Sudan because because they are the same as far as race but they are different. because they are different the will all have a different perspective on things. also the Sudan has only one type of African people and i think that if they see that all these people are getting along and they are different, then they will see that they can do it with their own people

Thursday, February 19, 2009

congo homewok



                 

1. What events led to the outbreak of war in the DR Congo?
The events that led to the outbreak of war in the Dr  Congo was in 1994, after the genocide in Rwanda many of the Hutu's ,about a million of them fled to the border of the Congo to stay safe and hide from the Tutsi. Some of the Tutsi still remained in the Kivus which was the part of Congo that bordered Rwanda. So in 1996 and in 1998 the Tutsi invaded Kivus to get the remaining genocides. They killed hundreds of thousands of other Innocent people in the process and almost 8 others countries became involved in the fighting.this war still continues in the country today.

2. How many have died in this war? Over what time frame has the deaths taken place? What countries and ethnic groups are involved?
More than 5 million people have died in the Congo war. Over the past 10 years people have been killed. at least 8 other countries have become involved in the fighting. Some people who are involved in this is the Congolese Tutsi,and, Laurent Nkunda. Nkuda is not helping at all. In fact him and his solders make it worst because they are adding to the violence when they should be helping. The united nation is involved in the war because they support Nkuda army. Even the Rwandans them selves has been involved.
  


3. What do you think can happen to stop the war/genocide in Congo?
       What I think could happen to stop this war is maybe the USA could try to pitch in and work out a solution  to this problem. They should make the two types of people come to an agreement or possibly separate the two. I personally don't think their might be anything any one can do . I believe that they are their own people which means regardless of what people try to do, if they decide not to stop then they wont. I think they need to realize that everyone is equal and they all should be treated the same. They need to know that this is war is stupid and that they are only hurting their selves . They are also bringing in other countries who had nothing to do with it.Even with this I think that the other countries make it worst because they feed into it and make more war. It's up to them to stop what their doing to bring piece to their country otherwise this will continue and soon they will probably wipe out just about everyone.

Advisory Period work 11/18/09

                                                                reflection

One positive thing that happened to me today is I woke up this morning. Also I was with my friends all day so they helped me be happy. Katrina and Keyonna made me laugh and Marquelle said hi to me. My day went kinda good, and kinda bad  so its even.

Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Rwanda home work assiment

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

Some factors that led to the genocide in Rwanda was when the death of the Rwandan president Juvenal Habyarimana occurred . His death was caused by a plane crash where someone shot his plane down in 1994 above the Kigali air port on April 6.The current Rwanda president was blame for the attack who was at the time the leader of a Tutsi rebel group.The current president deny that he was apart of this attack and blamed it on some people called the Hutu extremists. These events all led up to a break out of arguments and violence that spread through out the country and didn't end until 3 month later.

2. What was the time frame of the 1994 genocide and how many people died?
Tutsi and Hutu's were fighting even before the death of their president because the Tutsi were thought to be better than the Hutu's . In 1916 they made identity cards that classified the groups by their ethnicity.For the next 20 years after this, the Tutsi were treated better than Hutu's because they were thought to be better. Soon the Hutu's began to get angry and in 1959 they started riots which led to the death of 20000 Tutsi. Many of them fled to other countries in order to get to safety. When the Rwanda Independence was granted in 1962 the Tutsi were betrayed and the Hutu's were now in their pace.

3. What were some of the after effects of the genocide?
Some after affects of the genocide where the deaths of many innocent people. Peoples lives were destroyed because of this. Tutsi and Hutu's were being slaughtered and even the leaders of political opposition were murdered. Recruits were sent to killed more people. It caused two million Tutsi to leave to a different country. Even when the genocide was over five million people were dead. The government was led by Tutsi and they wanted to wipe out the Hutu's.