Why do they let this happen?

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Yes, you are missing something because you haven't begun to do any research about what the situation was like or how these people lived. They were dirt poor substance farmers. They were not living in a different country from their attackers. Do you remember when they were explaining to the reporters that they lived with the Janjaweed as neighbors and friends before this? They had no money for weapons much less anything else but to just survive. The world had ignored this problems for many years up to the time period in the movie. No one came in and helped them. The rape, theft and massacre went on for years before most in the West knew or ignored as tribal war because they took someone else's word for what the problem was.

One thing I did not see in this movie that irritated me was the Janjaweed would have been yelling at the top of their lungs "Allah Akbar" (allah is great) as they murdered and raped and burned the villages and destroyed the crops. The director chickened out.

Maybe I missed something but this was a war between Christians and Moslems. Maybe the Janjaweed said their were "slaves", "black monkeys" and had no place in Sudan. Who put that idea in the Janjaweed's head and gave them impunity to kill and rape? Of course, the Sudan Moslem government. Around the time this problem started was around the time Bin Laden was hiding out in Sudan. They wanted the natural products that existed in the south of Sudan and had to make the Christian in the south leave their ancestral land.

By the way, the entire Sudan had been Christian way before the Moslems came in over a thousand years prior and took over. Later on in history, the Sudan area was under the Turkish Empire, who made the different religions under their control live together peacefully or something like that, as the Colonial countries did, too. That is why before this massacre they were living together.

Returning to present, the Moslem north wanted the Darfur region because of the oil and natural products. Do you think the West would have went in there and did something finally without payoff??? Think about it.

I am so glad that the director made it as awful as he could and still it wasn't 1/5 as horrible as it was for the millions of Darfur residents who lost their families, children, virginities, homes, villages, loss of faith in humanity, etc.... as what we saw on the screen.

The lack of the religious element of the story in this film was my only complaint.

They ARE doing something.

There is a pre existing civil war in Darfur as the tribes these people belong to have been fighting the government since the 90's. The Janjaweed were a reaction to that war. The oppressive Sudanese government allied with the racist, pan Arab Janjaweed and had them attack the civilians of the rebelling tribes to deter them from fighting on. The Janjaweed raped, killed, burned, robbed and enslaved hundreds of thousands since 2003 with the help of the government. The rebels are to few and poorly armed to stop both the Sudanese Army and the Janjaweed together.



With this ring, I thee biodamp.

A few AK47's and some ammo distributed along with the food aid would have solved the problem real quick. It is a very difficult thing to commit genocide abainst an armed populace. Unfortunately, this was politically inexpedient on several levels.