Question

Genocides in Dafur, like those in Bosnia-Heregegovenia, arose from...

A)age-old ethnic rivalries
B)recent waves of immigration
C)election of minority leaders
D)divisions created during WWI

Answer 1

The correct answer is A.

It has been determined that the Genocide in Dafur started in 2003. It was a conflict based on an ethnical background, between the Janjaweeds consituted by Arabized indigenous Africans plus a small number of Bedouins, and who were supported indirectly by the Sudanese Goverment (that gave funds and weapons to the Janjaweeds) and, on the other side, the so-called rebel groups conformed mostly by non-Arab muslims from the Fur, Zaghawa, and Masalit ethnic groups.

The Genocide in Bosnia was perpetrated by the Bosnian Serb forces in 1995 which performed the denominated "ethnic cleansing campaign", that managed to kill 8,000 Bosnian muslims together with mass expulsions.

Answer 2

The correct answer is: A)age-old ethnic rivalries.

• The Srebrenica Massacre consisted in the murder of approximately 8,000 Bosnian Muslims in the Srebrenica region in July 1995, during the Bosnian War. This mass murder, carried out by units of the Republika Srpska Army, the VRS, under the command of General Ratko Mladić, as well as by a Serbian paramilitary group known as "The Scorpions", occurred in an area previously declared as " safe "by the United Nations, since at that time was under the" protection "of 400 Dutch blue helmets. Although the elimination of Bosnian Muslim males was especially sought, the massacre included the murder of children, adolescents, women and the elderly, with the aim of achieving ethnic cleansing of the city.

• The genocide in Darfur is a military conflict of racial origin underway in the Darfur region of western Sudan, mainly among the Janjaweed, a group of militiamen formed by members of the Baggara tribes of the Abbala (ethnic camel breeders). Arab) and the black people, not Baggaras and mainly farmers. The Sudanese government, although publicly denying its support to the Janjaweed, has provided them with weapons and assistance, and has participated together with them in several attacks against the Fur, Zaghawa and Masalit peoples. The beginning of the conflict is usually in February 2003. The conflict has been described as a genocide towards black people by the international media and by the US government, although not by the UN.