The Devil Came On Horseback Analysis

The Devil Came on Horseback The Devil Came on Horseback is a documentary following Brian Steidle, a retired Captain of the United States Marine Corps who was sent to monitor a ceasefire in Sudan. Brian was sent over as an unarmed military observer or a patrol leader, which was quite the change for the retired Captain, as he was use to being in the action. Little did Brian know, within six months he found himself in the middle of a rising conflict in Darfur, spreading to the entire region. In Darfur and Sudan there has been a two decade civil war between the North and South, resulting in thousands of innocent lives being lost. Before Brian was sent over, there had been threats of undermining a peace agreement in Darfur. The North, which was mostly Arab people, was controlled by Arab tribes. Darfur wanted to rule the economic developments being made on the North’s land. Many attacks have been made in attempts to do so, including an attack on an airport
Upon hearing about the cease fire monitoring, Brian volunteered himself to go. It was Brian’s job to perceive the complaints about the situation, and find out who was responsible for violating the ceasefire. Many of the people Brian talked to felt that genocide was occurring, and that is was simply a matter of the Arabs versus the black villagers. The 1948 United Nations Genocide Convention defined genocide as the intentional destruction of racial, ethnic, national, or religious group. If a situation were to be defined as genocide, it was ruled that the situation required any government to take action. Under the Bush administration, it was ruled that America would not recognize the situation as genocide, despite the apparent systematic cleansing of an entire group of people. In late 2004, Collin Powell ruled the situation as genocide, and later Bush backed up Collin’s decision to do