What can we, as individuals, so to help stop the genocide in Darfur?
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The only realistic option you have is raising money for a private mercenary army.\n\nYou won't be able to protest or convince government officials to take military action because our army is already too spread out - we just don't have the man power right now.  I'm still confused why nothing was done by international government agencies in the 1990's.  Probably don't want to re-live the Somalia mistakes just yet.\n\nProviding humanity aid is also ineffective because, just like in Somalia, the military is stealing the supplies to feed their troops.\n\nI'm not convinced that Americans don't care, I bet they just don't know what the facts are.  News agencies don't report it because it's not as sexy as Iraq.  As with all things retarded in America, people won't listen unless a famous person champions the cause.  Why haven't any celebrity activists done this yet?\n\nER seems to be doing their share of advertising the problem, let's see who else gets on board.
508042
The problems of Darfur are as tragic and complex. Despite the fact that a peace treaty has een signed effectivly bringing an end to the Sudanese civil war, local tensions in the region have seen horrific instances of rape and murder. Unfortunatly for the people of Darfur, this is happening at a time when the Bush administration is doing its best to undermine the position of the UN on every issue therefore are unlikely to commit heavily to any proposed solution offered by New York.
437892
I agree that killing is the last thing we should be doing.  Ideally, most political problems should be solved by diplomacy.  At present, the world situation has gotten so bad, that it's hard to get people to sit down together and think rationally.  There are so many hidden agendas, concerning religion and business.  Let us hope that the people we elect to solve world problems will continue to have successes, and be able to prevent the daily killings we all hate so much.
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I care very deeply about this horrible situation--and follow it very closely.  Have you been following Nicholas Kristof's articles about the Genocide in the New York Times?  He writes about it regularly and has been trying to get the US government and the "bully pulpit" people like Bill O'Reilly to draw attention to Darfur.  He has even set up a collection to pay for Bill O'Reilly's trip to Darfur to raise the public's attention.  So far, O'Reilly has refused--saying he has "other commitments" (what commitments could be more important?)  If you get a chance look at www.nytimes.com and see if you can access the articles/video on Darfur.
675401
Just another example of the fact that unless the US does something to protect the oppressed, not a single other nation on Earth will. We are the only ones that give a damn.\n\nThis is Kofi Anan's second failure to protect against genocide. Kofi was head of UN peacekeeping missions when the UN troops in Rwanda called him to tell him something terrible was going to happen, and he needed to send more troops and give them instructions. He did nothing.\n\nNow, he has completely ignored the atrocities in Darfur, and has not even objected to Sudan being on the UN Human Rights council.\n\nBut it is time to open our eyes and see that no other country cares about others. There is no African, EU, Asian, or American (N., S. & Central) that gives a damn.\n\nAnd that's a sad indictment on the rest of the world, especially all those moral midgets who throw aspersions at the USA.
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What's the alternative?  There will be no sudden changes to the situation in the U.S.\n\nPack up and go where a better life awaits you?\n\nShout the injustices from the rooftops - because you know that the squeaky wheel gets the grease?\n\nPreserve the status quo by inactivity?\n\nMake lemonade out of the lemon handed you and try to improve your lot (and thereby African groups collectively) by a program of self-improvement on an individual level?\n\nTears don't turn no gears........................
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Try to convince the usa gov who r supporting all this brutal israeli actions,and the israelies will stop,\nwhy should the israelies destroy a whole town to free one  soldier!!!\nthey can negotiate over him in a peacfull way,\nor\nthey sure can send a special force unit to search for him and save him if they know where he is, instead of all that,\nand if they dont know where he is,so how they think they will save him by mass invasion to gaza,and by destroying the infrastracture of a city with a very hight population,not carring how many they kill and harm in the way?they propably will get him killed that way\nand in the same time all the innocent civ,including KIDS,will be badly harmed by the electricity & water cut.\nWhy r u punishing the palestinians for electing their gov in a democratic way,is it cause u dont like their DEMOCRATIC choice,u make them suffer this way?\nusa could stop all that with one phone call from the white house,and try to stop a new human massacres,but i think that the american gov ,agree and bless whats hapening.\n\nsend e-mails to usa gov and ask them to stop & not support whats happening there,thats what any good average american can do.
704456
Kill em' all and let God sort em' out...\n\nHoorah!
716006
Nobody cares. It's outta sight so it's outta mind. It is the same thing as Rwanda. I think we should do something but not use military intervention. Everybody is worried about Darfur but nobody thinks about for longer than two minutes.
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Well, first of all, they would have to stop fighting eachother and focus on rebuilding their lands and farms and infrastructer so they can better feed everyone, and go from there. Outside help and aid can only bring them so far.  They have to become self sufficient or they will never truely end the misery.
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The U.N. has got to step in and protect the people of Darfur.\n\nIt is just unacceptable what is going on with the slaughter of   innocent civilians.
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Unfortunately, I haven't seen anything done by the elite powers in order to aid refugees from Sudan. I do know that instead of killing people in the Middle East, holding people in GUANTANAMO, or telling Iran what to do; the United Nations, the United States, and the other powerful nations should be focusing their attention on that dilemma. Hopefully, those people suffering the genocide will finally get somewhere safe and maybe obtain closure from their oppressive government.
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I think we need to police our own selves first! Instead of worrying about every other country in the world, we need to use all the efforts to secure our own border, feed our hungry, house our homeless, etc.  In other words, start at home first, then once our home land is good again, then we can help others.
676419
The Janjaweed should be wiped out or tried at the International Court in the Hague, and probably executed. We should go for, as the Bush administration likes to call, "regime change" in the Sudan and "pre-emptive strike" against the hateful people that rise in the highest rank of the Sudanese  government. But, it is not in the US interests to get involved. I wish we would learn the lesson of other genocides. Why don't we act on morality in our foreign policy?
1100122
Stop foreign aid which funds third world dictatorships.   Pull out western government intervention, since they are rarely ever able to achieve any of their stated goals, anyhow.  Let the corrupt regimes run out of money.  Eventually, they will be unable to pay for the rottweilers that keep the masses down.  Then the poor people have a fighting chance of beating their poverty.\n\nAs a side note, power has a way of attracting the the most corrupt, self-serving members of society.   So to see it in other countries, as well as my own, comes as no surprise.
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Allow Muslims to resolve their own internal conflicts, remove the US and coalition troops from the Middle East. \n\nTheir people must have the desire to create change. \n\nThe US is responsible for the current unrest in the Middle East and should acknowledge that publicly. Admit our mistakes and be willing to help resolve the problem IF (and only IF) we are asked to. Otherwise stay out and let them resolve it.\n\nA joint effort to restore tranquility must come from all neighboring countries. Non-military efforts should be tried first, focus on restoring the desire for peace among the people in that area. At the same time, raise the quality of life above survival mode and try to police the areas in order to reduce crime and violence.\n\nOtherwise, the chaotic cycle will continue.
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Genocide is killing or causing serious harm to members of a national, ethnic or religious group. Article 2 of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide defines it in more detail. \n\nIn the Rwandan genocide in 1994, two extremist Hutu militia groups killed over 900,000 members of the Tutsi as well as moderate Hutus. Unfortunately, neither the United Nations or other nations did anything to stop the massacre.\n\nIn 2004, Secretary of State Colin Powell claimed that Sudanese Government backed Arab militia had committed abuses that left 1.2 million black African Sudanese homeless. This was also known as the Darfur massacre.