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While everyone's focused on the Tsunami, if they're still even focused on that, the genocide and masss famine in the Sudan continues. Reuters reports:
Millions of people are at risk of starvation unless the international community acts quickly on the situation in the war-torn western Sudanese region of Darfur, Jan Egeland, the UN's emergency relief coordinator, said.
"Some are predicting four million, some are predicting - that [more] people [are] in desperate need of life-saving assistance as we approach the hunger gap in mid-year," Egeland told a news conference in New York on Friday.
"Some are predicting four million, some are predicting - that [more] people [are] in desperate need of life-saving assistance as we approach the hunger gap in mid-year," Egeland told a news conference in New York on Friday.
Wasn't the big Dubya's inauguration speech all about spreading freedom and liberty? All we will spread is famine and misery if we refuse to act. Bill Clinton went to Rwanda and apologized to the people for his shameful inaction there over a decade ago, think Dubya will after he lets how many millions die? One way that the US is stonewalling is by being opposed to using the International Criminal Court (ICC) to prosecute war criminals in Sudan. Why? Because the Bush crime family (or administration, whichever you prefer), is opposed to the international criminal court on principle (the principle that almost anyone in their administration could be brought up on charges if US endorsed the ICC), so they don't support it's use in any instance. Here's a balanced article about the ICC and the USA's objection to it...
Four of the least graphic images of the genocide were in today's New York Times. As a Black man I have a responsibility to do what I can for my African brothers and sisters, and as a (black, brown, yellow, red, white, whichever you are) human being, u do too! We cannot allow our silence on Rwanda to be repeated, and we can't allow this to continue...
posted by GBREY @ 4:20 PM
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The bottom line is that we're stalling, China and Russia are stonewalling and people are starving dying and are being murdered. We as individuals can give to aid organisations to blunt the impact of the catastrophe there, and can pressure our leaders to focus on the problem until they come out with a solution. There are too many problems in the world to notice, much less solve all at once. Our nation has incubated and, in some cases, encouraged the problems of the so-called "third world" to grow. Now is an opportunity to begin to repent, and if we keep the pressure on, we can push this country to do so.
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