Darfur

"For too long, the people of Darfur have suffered at the hands of a government that is complicit in the bombing, murder, and rape of innocent civilians. My Administration has called these actions by their rightful name: genocide. The world has a responsibility to help put an end to it. ... I promise this to the people of Darfur: the United States will not avert our eyes from a crisis that challenges the conscience of the world." – President George W. Bush, 5/29/07


_NorthSide_ For far too long have the powers of the world that be stood by or turned a blind eye to the atrocities to the people of world. President Bush was quick to chastise Saddam Hussein as an evil dictator that must be removed from power, who no doubt committed horrible acts upon the people of his country. Yet he stands by as hundreds of people are brutalized, murdered, raped, and kidnapped every day in Africa. Where the most innocent beings there is children are kidnapped and brainwashed into becoming soldiers. All because the U.S. and other superpower countries don't stand to gain anything from asserting a presence in countries like Darfur. You may ask why do we not hear about these horrible conditions on Fox news or CNN, its because the media also doesn't stand to gain anything by covering these stories. Not to say that the people of the United States don't care, but more that they are ignorant to the rest of the world because they wait for mainstream media sources to force feed them their daily dose of world news and believe that mainstream media will tell them everything they need to know.

I do not claim to be a world political strategist but I do know that action must be taken to prevent acts such as these from happening. More than making press releases on the White House website.


--ALI--
What hurts me the most about this is that governments around the world dance around the definition of "Genocide." Mostly because there is an active UN resolution that demands immediate and unconditional action by all powers to stop it at all costs. So while they count and sort bodies holding a dictionary in their hands they could have put that shit aside and save lives. I guess they don't see them as people. When someone jumped my boy Shane, I didn't think, does Shane deserve this, what do I have at stake? Hell no, me and Zach bolted straight out the door and handled him, and his friends.

www.eyesondarfur.org/
www.24hoursfordarfur.org/