I give El-Fadel Arbab so much respect for being so intelligent in this situation. Many others would hide out and wait for sunlight to leave with their group. Arbab was smart enough to realize that being with a group will not help you. Being with a group of people will only make you more obvious for others. Daylight will also make it much easier to be spotted. With Arbab’s dark complexion, he was easily hidden in the dark of night. Then someone comments below the article and questions the validity of Arbab’s statement that he “survived hyenas, tigers and snakes in the woods.” For someone to go through so much and then be open to sharing their story with others is a phenomenal. Most people would be too scarred or scared to go out and speak to groups of people about such a tragedy.
El-Fadel Arbab was left to suffer. They threw him in a burning building with many others and left him to suffer and die. This isn’t an automatic death. They left him there alive with flames swarming him, burning his face and body. I don’t see someone could treat another human-being this way. I do think it is great that people are getting educated on what is going on aroind them and are being taught to be accepting. Tolerance is so important and all people should be taught how to be tolerant. With the accepting community in Portland, a hundred Darfurians have been saved from the tragedies in the Sudan.
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This story of this young man is truly amazing. It's incredible to hear about how he was able to escape and make a safe home in the U.S. You did really great work on the genocide in Darfur and only knowing a little about the genocide, I was glad that I was able to learn more. You did good work on your blog.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Maddie, the story is amazing and miraculous. It gives other people trapped in war-torn countries hope that there is a way out, and not everyone dies. In all the carnage it must be very depressing to live in fear that you will be the next one. This article shows that it is not always the case, and in some cases their is a happy ending!
ReplyDeleteI also knew very little about Darfur, and I learned a lot through your great blog.
Katie i think this single story is enough to wow a lot of people. In class we discussed how simply knowing that an x number of people died is not enough to get depp into you. Its that one story someone reads which has great affect on them. This is one of those stories.
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I actually had no idea what was going on until now and I have to say that it is very shocking. I think the fact that their population is 8.5 million is very important because it can show someone on a percent scale how many people were killed to how many people there are in that country. I don't know how they can deny the fact that it is Genocide. People are being raped until they cannot give birth and I may need to brush up on my facts, but I believe that halting birth rates on a large scale is considered genocide. Well it is happening on a large scale, ad therefore, it is genocide. -Ramzi
ReplyDeleteThese certain people are the ones that really make you realize how horrible the genocide actually is. You are all right, this is a miraculous story and knowing about 100 people who survived, is way better than hearing about the thousands who didn't make it.
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