Allyson Roper Period-6 2/27/14 Darfur Genocide Allyson Roper Period-6 2/27/14

Background Located in Sudan Omar Bashir took controll and started to create problems between farmers and nomadic Arib tribes Omar was power hungry Janjaweed militia would attack villages and killed 400 villages Darfur genocide started February 26, 2003. It attempted to end July 9, 2011 but it still has problems to this day.

Darfur art Wasil Ali took the picture Taken in 2003 Was taken to show the government attack This is significant because the government is killing off innocent people to get more power

Visual imagery in Darfur Attacks from the government leave dead bodies to rot This visual imagery shows that the government went to innocent people and killed them and left their bodies to lay around

Visual Imagery in Night “I see myself in every stiffened corpse” (Wiesel 89). This visual imagery shows that the corpses were left everywhere and that even the survivors could see themselves as the dead corpse because of how they are living and being treated.

Comparison In both of the photographs there are corpses that were piled on top of each other because people did not care about there race or religon so they thought that they did not deserve to be burried. The visual imagery shows how corpses were treated. Even if certain limbs are not attached to the body the people are piled up or just left where they are to stay and rot. The corpses are not respected and they are not properly burried.

Motif from the Darfur Genocide The motif is power hungry Omar Bashir wanted more and more power from the people that lived in Darfur so to insure that power he killed all the people and villages that got in his way. The people that were mostly killed were farmers and nomadic tribes. Innocent pedestrians were killed as well. The government created the Janjaweed militia to kill so that they were able to take controll.

Motif from Night The SS officers are power hungry “He took his time in between lashes” (Wiesel 57). This quote shows how the SS officer is showing Elie that he is in contrill of everyone and that the prisoners can not take controll of them. The SS officer beating Elie also tells the other prisoners that if they step out of line they will be punished as well. By beating Elie the officer is trying to show Elie that snooping around is not something samrt to do and that if he is cough seeing something or doing something he will be punished.

Motif Comparison In both of the genocides the officers were power hungry by beating the prisoners and by killing anyone that got in their way. This both shows that the officers from both of the genocides will kill anyone and anything to get the power that they want and the respect that they think that they should get. This is symbolised by the beatings and the killing of innocent people who deserve to have freedom and rights.

Work Cited Darfur Genocide? Feb. 2003. Photograph. Genocide in Darfur. N.p., n.d. Web. 26 Feb. 2014. <http://www.unitedhumanrights.org/genocide/genocide-in-sudan.htm>. Wiesel, Elie. Night. New York: Hill and Wang, 2006. Print.