Video #3

            This video was probably the most difficult for me to watch. In the beginning, all the smiling faces, the happy lives that these people lived before the Janjaweed came in and destroyed it all. The kids were laughing and playing together, parents didn’t have to worry that their kids could’ve been killed if they let them out to play, and the elderly had the chance to die in peace, rather then by force by the Janjaweed. Shortly following the “happy” part of this video came reality. The reality that there really weren’t places the civilians could go to be safe. The reality that hundreds of people were dying everyday and there has been no effort to stop it. The reality that people are scared to live. The Janjaweed are continuously destroying the lives of many people who had dreams, goals, places they wanted to go in life. Ripping them away from each person one by one. The Janjaweed is a group that needs to be taken down immediately, before it’s only them left in Darfur.

            Throughout this video, you saw happy faces, joyful faces, followed by crying faces and terrified faces. Happy because the Janjaweed didn’t exist to them at that point and later terrified because the Janjaweed were the ones treating these people like they were the ones who shouldn’t be existing. It’s a harsh world, but I didn’t expect hundreds of thousands of people to be killed over a conflict that could’ve been settled much more peacefully.