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Title: Ethnic Violence


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Ethnic Violence
  • Sudan and Bolivia
  • By Lindsay S, Laura, and Maggie

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Development
  • Development is the improvement of life for a
    countrys citizens and obtaining social justice
    within the society.

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  • "The UN is seriously concerned about the
    increasing violence in the area and the
    continuing loss of innocent lives of women, men
    and children," stressed UN Deputy Resident and
    Humanitarian Coordinator in Southern Sudan Lise
    Grande. (Sudan, 1)

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  • 57 people were wounded, the majority of them
    children with some in critical condition, and
    forced at least 1,550 from their homes.

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  • 1,000 people have been killed and over 100,000
    uprooted from their homes

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Janjaweed
  • A group of black Arabs that terrorize non Arabs
    including women and children.

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  • "Survivors told us of villages surrounded at
    night by men with torches and machine guns, the
    killing of men, women, and children, the burning
    of people alive in the grass huts of Darfur. 
    They told us of the rape and mutilation of young
    girls, of execution by machete of young
    men-sometimes eighty at a time in long lines."
    (Daoud Hari, 3)

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Violence in Bolivia
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  • We are alarmed by these recent attacks against
    the press during a time where Bolivians need to
    be informed about crucial political changes that
    will affect their lives, said CPJ Executive
    Director Joel Simon. We urge Bolivian
    authorities to ensure that journalists are
    allowed to report freely. (Bolivian Media
    Attacked, 1)

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Causes of Ethnic Violence
  • Bolivia- Current pres. is the first indigenous
    one
  • Sudan- Arabs in the north, Christians in the south

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Works Cited
  • "Bolivia 2007 - Committee to Protect
    Journalists." Press Freedom Online - Committee
    to Protect Journalists. 2 June 2009
    ltwww.cpj.orggt.
  • "Culture of Sudan - History and ethnic relations,
    Urbanism, architecture, and the use of space."
    Countries and Their Cultures. 2 June 2009
    ltwww.everyculture.comgt.
  • "Despite aid effort, Sudan famine squeezing life
    from dozens daily - July 31, 1998." CNN.com -
    Breaking News, U.S., World, Weather,
    Entertainment Video News. 1 June 2009
    ltwww.cnn.comgt.
  • "Ethnic violence and hunger add to south Sudan's
    woes." Ethnic violence and hunger add to south
    Sudan's woes. 28 May 2009 ltwww.alertnet.orggt.

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works cited continued
  • Hari, Daoud. The Translator. New York Random
    House Trade Paperbacks, 2008.
  • "Sudan A Historical Perspective." 1A1 Sudan
    Page _at_ Sudan.Net. 1 June 2009 ltwww.sudan.net/gove
    rnment/historygt.
  • "Sudan UN Urges End to Inter-Ethnic Clashes in
    South." AllAfrica.com Home. 28 May 2009
    lthttp//allafrica.com/stories/200905130839.htmlgt.
  • "Sudan's shadowy Arab militia." BBC NEWS News
    Front Page. 1 June 2009 ltnews.bbc.co.ukgt.
  • "Tribal violence threatens Sudan election -
    Sudan- msnbc.com." Breaking News, Weather,
    Business, Health, Entertainment, Sports,
    Politics, Travel, Science, Technology, Local, US
    World News- msnbc.com. 28 May 2009
    ltwww.msnbc.msn.comgt.
  • "Villagers flee ethnic violence in eastern Chad."
    SudanTribune plural news and views information
    source on Sudan. 2 June 2009 ltwww.sudantribune.co
    mgt.
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