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A Modern Day Totalitarian State

Aim: To understand the features of modern day totalitarianism and demonstrate this through a visual representation

Task: Design a 5/8 minute documentary on a chosen totalitarian state

Areas to cover to help establish its totalitarian nature:

1. Find where the state is, who its neighbours are 2. Its GNP and rank indicator of wealth in the world 3. Population (including composition of young, old) 4. Literacy rates 5. Number of hospitals/medical welfare care 6. Industry production (imports and exports) (Statistics – Economic Distortion) 7. Employment 8. Political party in power-structure-goals (One Party State) 9. Background (its history – when it became a totalitarian state) 10.Education 11. Youth groups/organizations 12. Private Army/Secret Police 13. Racist Ideas urged on Population 14. Use of death penalty/assassination of outspoken opponents 15. Use of exile/prison camps for political purposes 16. Purging/discrediting of political enemies 17. Opportunity for dissent limited to irregular incidents such as assassination attempts

What you must use:

A variety of photos or moving pictures showing the state. (introduce the state) A script (What are you gonna say?) Aspects: Political, Economic, Social Images that reflect totalitarian features Your voice on the movie describing what you are showing Music for the beginning reflecting the feel of the state Final slide should have credits of the sources you have used

Assessment: (you can find this under “Assessment Criteria” on wikipace) Application and interpretation Use of historical skills (presentation and organisation)

Resources:

See Miss Wilkinson’s wikipage “Research Resources”

Due date:

RED-POLITICAL BLUE-SOCIAL YELLOW-ECONOMIC

SUDAN

Northern Africa

Neighboring Countries: Central African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Libya, Uganda

Gross National Product: $ 92,830,000,000 est. 2009

Rank Indicator in the World: 70 out 226

Population: 41,087,825 est. 2009

Ethnicity: Black 52%, Arab 39%, Beja 6%, Foreigners 2%, Other 1%

0-14 years: 40.7% 15-64 years: 56.8% 65 years and over: 2.5%

Literacy Rate: definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 61.1% male: 71.8% female: 50.5% (2003 est.)

Youth Groups: Junior NCP (Military Drafting)

Education: 6% of GDP (2004)

Religion: Sunni Muslim 70% (in North), Christian 5% (mostly in South and Khartoum), Indigenous Beliefs 25%

Republic of Sudan (Jumhuriyat as-Sudan) Capital: Khartoum

Government of National Unity, National Congress Party, and Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (Power-Sharing government under 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement)

President: Omar Hassan Al-Bashir 1st Vice-President: Salva Kiir Mayardit 2nd Vice-President: Ali Osman Taha

National Congress Party (came to power through military coup in 1989 (President Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir since 1989)

Janjaweed participated the war against SPLM (Salva Kiir) and Justice Equality Movement (Khalil Ibrahim) since the start of Darfur Conflict 2003

Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (Control of South Sudan) since 2005

Stipulation of National Elections in 2009 has failed

December 13-23, 2000 (Widely Viewed as Rigged)

Omar Hassan Al-Bashir got re-elected with 86.5% of votes Ja’afar Muhammed Numayri got 9.6 of votes Three other candidates received 3.9% of votes combined

Labor Force: 11.92 million (2007 est.)

Distribution of Employment Agriculture: 80% Industry: 7% Services: 13% (1999 est.)

Unemployment18.7% (2002 est.)

Agricultural Products: cotton, groundnuts (peanuts), sorghum, millet, wheat, gum arabic, sugarcane, cassava (tapioca), mangos, papaya, bananas, sweet potatoes, sesame; sheep, livestock

Industrial Products: oil, cotton ginning, textiles, cement, edible oils, sugar, soap distilling, shoes, petroleum refining, pharmaceuticals, armaments, automobile/light truck assembly

Transnational Issues

The effects of Sudan's almost constant ethnic and rebel militia fighting since the mid-20th century have penetrated all of the neighboring states; as of 2006, Chad, Ethiopia, Kenya, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Uganda provided shelter for over half a million Sudanese refugees, which includes 240,000 Darfur residents driven from their homes by Janjawid armed militia and the Sudanese military forces; Sudan, in turn, hosted about 116,000 Eritreans, 20,000 Chadians, and smaller numbers of Ethiopians, Ugandans, Central Africans, and Congolese as refugees; in February 2006, Sudan and DROC signed an agreement to repatriate 13,300 Sudanese and 6,800 Congolese; Sudan accuses Eritrea of supporting Sudanese rebel groups; efforts to demarcate the porous boundary with Ethiopia proceed slowly due to civil and ethnic fighting in eastern Sudan; the boundary that separates Kenya and Sudan's sovereignty is unclear in the "Ilemi Triangle," which Kenya has administered since colonial times; Sudan claims but Egypt de facto administers security and economic development of Halaib region north of the 22nd parallel boundary; periodic violent skirmishes with Sudanese residents over water and grazing rights persist among related pastoral populations along the border with the Central African Republic

2010 Presidential and Parliament Elections (April 5-12)

Parties that will run:

NCP Candidate: Omar Hassan Al-Bashir SPLM Candidate: Sadiq al-Mahdi PCP Candidate: Abdullah Deng Nial Islamist Opposition Candidate: Hassan al-Turabi

Independent: Salva Kiir Mayardit, Abdullah Ali Ibrahim

And other 69 National Parties

Military: Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF): Land Forces, Navy (includes Marines), Sudanese Air Force (Sikakh al-Jawwiya as-Sudaniya), Popular Defense Forces; Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA): Popular Army (2009) Manpower: 10,712,918 Military Service and Obligation: 18-33 y/o (Male and Female); 12-24 months minimum obligation

Private Army (al-Bashir’s): 2,791,579 soldiers (composed of different batallions from SAF, PDF, and regiments of SPLM and Janjaweed organization (Note: Illegal recruitment of underage rebel soldiers)

Military Expenditures: 46% of Total Government Funds

Racist ideas urged on Population: Oppression of Black Africans (supported by SPLM and JEM) by Sudanese government (SAF and allegedly Janjaweed) in favor of the Arab

Death Penalty: Most number of executions in Africa carried out (24 sentences carried out in 2007 including political opponents like Nagmeldin Abdallah, former secretary of SPLM)

Prison Camps: African Auschwitz: Darfur Genocide Camps (started since 2006)

Assassination of Political Enemies: Mohamed Musa Abdallah Bahr Aldeen, tortured to death on April 22, 2007, known activist leader on the Darfur Conflict who favors for SPLM and JEM  Assassination pointed out to the Central Sudanese government with the assistance of SAF and Janjaweed rebels. The government, on the other hand states that assassinations are not politically motivated and that these are more of different personal vendettas.