In Sudan, there is a region that is war-torn and burning. Government-employed paramilitaries and militias are burning villages, raping women and girls, and killing those who stand in their way.
Darfur is real, and the world is, at the moment, incapable of realising that. In all fairness, some countries are making use of sanctions against nations who trade with Sudan, but at the end of the day, people still care more about Mr Bush's war.
Really, the trouble is in the lack of knowledge about Darfur. Very few people that I've talked to have even heard of the place. Others have said that they've heard it on the news or seen the name somewhere, but have never known what it meant. When the worst humanitarian disaster since the Nazi Holocaust is finally made a major issue in the governments of the world's rich countries, maybe some progress will be made.
That's not to say, of course, that some progress hasn't been made. The UN is preparing a peacekeeping force of nearly 20,000 troops, and peace talks are being regularly scheduled.
Lack of help from the media and limited Western knowledge of the conflict allows the whole ordeal to remain the absolute worst humanitarian disaster in recent history with the worst planned response to the atrocities from those who have the capability of helping.
If you care one measly little bit about help the people displaced by the conflict, people with nothing but a cardboard box and their lives, join the Save Darfur Coalition now.
Saturday, 3 November 2007
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