Part A

I. U.N. Looks for Japan to Send mine-removal Troops to Sudan
4-2-08 Japan Daily http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20080403a6.html

II. This article is about the U.N and Japan coming together to remove mines in Sudan. The U.N asked Japan may times to help but they refused. Finally they agreed joining the U.N.s peacekeeping forces. Together they can remove the mine and make routes to bring humanitarian aid. Japan’s Defense Ministry doesn’t want to dispatch troops but government wants to make there role in the globe greater.

III.
A) This goes with the AP World Theme of impact of interaction among and within major societies because the U.N (United Nation) is world wide and brings all the nations together. Also, its impact of technology and environment because of the new technology they can take away the mines making it safer for people
B) Sudan had a 21-year long civil war where troops put landmines into the fields. Also World War II Germany and England placed landmines in the north but southern Sudan suffers the most. Women, men and children would step on the mines losing arms, leg and sometimes their lives. 15,000-20,000 people a year lose their lifes to landmines. In 1997 Sudan asked the United Nation to step in and help. The U.N said that 1/3 of Sudan is landmines. Ever since then the U.N. had been helping to remove them.
C) It doesn’t say who it is by but most likely it’s a Japanese male because the article is mostly about Japan saying they would help and what Japanese leaders and government think.
D) The bias in this article is that they are only showing Japans reaction. They didn’t tell you how many people die a year in Sudan from mines or how badly they need Japans help.
E) I think it would have helped to hear from someone from Sudan saying how landmines are a problem. Then the article would be more balanced and not bias.
F) I think that Japan should help Sudan. It’s horrible that Sudan has to live with these landmines. I feel bad for children in Sudan that they can’t even play outside without the fear of stepping on a mine and, also, for those who lost ligaments or their lives by stepping on them. These landmines were put down in the anger of war and now all the Sudan people are paying for it.