http://www.eyesondarfur.org/
Over 200,000 Dead. 2 Million more at risk. The ongoing genocide in Darfur, Sudan should stop. Prevent further attacks, this website has satellite images focused on the villages at risk from the state-sanctioned Muslim militias that goes on killing rampage through the tribes.
I know in the past the United States has not intervened to stop genocide because of things going on domestically or otherwise at the time the genocide is happening. To what extent has US involvement in Iraq interfered with US policy regarding Darfur, and how can the US balance its commitment to Iraq with working to stop genocide in Darfur? I think that the United States and the rest of the world have a responsibility to do something, it is morally wrong to do nothing, but what are realistic steps we can take to stop the genocide in Darfur?
ReplyDeleteI think US doesnt have the sole responsibility in calling out the atrocities being committed in Darfur. Every country who chose to stay silent when people are being slaughtered are equally responsibility. Here is a legitimate state that needs international intervention but since Sudan is not an important oil producing country, the rest of the world including US, EU, Russia and China (the African Union and the Organization of Islamic Countries) looked the other way. The African Union is very weak and has no teeth in policing its own continent and a multilateral and multilevel approach should be made to address this current mass murder. I think tho, asking Russia and especially China to pressure Omar Bashir and to halt the genocide would be very difficult as these two countries are dealing with their own questionable human rights records - Russia with the recent arrests and violent dispersals of protests, and China of course need not be elaborated. It would be the pot calling the kettle black.
ReplyDeletewell, as said earlier, the United States and the rest of the world have a responsibility to do something, it is morally wrong to do nothing,
ReplyDeleteyep. what use is a silent majority when that majority choose to stay silent? The world watched silently as millions of Jews were led to mass slaughter during the last World War. The world and especially Asians ignored the massacre of the Cambodians during the bloody rule of Pol Pot, the US looked the other way and continued supporting the regime of the former Philippine dictator Marcos that caused mass disappearances and countless human rights violations.
ReplyDeletesad to say, that's all part of the grim realities of life
ReplyDeleteTrue true true... sooooo saddd...
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