Do yo know about the situation in Darfur? What are you doing to help these people from genocide?
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I definitely do know about the genocide in Darfur. In fact, yesterday I went to the Save Darfur Rally in Washington, D.C. to urge the President to take stronger measures in ending the violence and rapes in the Sudanese country. I also have donated money and will continue to donate, which is important since the U.N. is running out of money for the cause and supposedly is cutting half of it's food rations for the country because of lack of funding.\n\nDuring the rally, I also got a t-shirt. I plan to wear the T-shirt, which will hopefully strike up a conversation with someone who doesn't know about what's going on in Darfur because many people don't know about it.\n\nLastly, I pray for the people in Darfur. What better way to help than calling on a higher power.
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And what about Jesus?  Will he love me too when y'all are lifted up?\nWhat about the people dying in Darfur?  Do you also love them.  If so, what are you doing for them.\nWhat about the Iraqis dying at the hands of the Crusaders who have come to liberate them?  Do you love them too.\nDo you love the children dying of malaria in Africa?\nI'm glad you're so kind and loving, but exactly what are you doing for those you love?
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First, "the West" doesn't care or not care about anything.  Individual people in the West make individual decisions about what they care about.  I can't speak for the West.  I can only speak for myself.\n\nAs a human being, I am limited in my ability to understand all of the horrible things going on in the world.  Many people worldwide are being tortured and killed.  Yet I am not strong enough emotionally to invest myself in caring about all of them at once.  I could also ask you why you don't care about the people in North Korea or Zimbabwe, but I understand that you can't solve all the world's problems either.\n\nThe situation in Darfur is FAR more devastating than any other in the world today.  And, if something doesn't change soon, the entire population may be killed.  The situation in Palestine may be bad, but it is nowhere near as bad as Darfur today.\n\nI'm not as aware of the situation in Ogaden today, because our press isn't reporting on it, but I will say that Americans were very concerned about that area in the past.  Another limitation of humanity is that we can't deal with the idea of a problem that is never solved.  Thus, many people have deceived themselves into believing that the situations in Ethiopia and Somalia are somewhat resolved.  It's sad but true.\n\nThe simple reality is that people are not perfect, and we can't solve all the problems of the world.  The problem in Darfur, however, is such a simple one for us to understand, and to know who is wrong, that it is much easier to support efforts at reform there.  Palestine is complicated, and most of us can see both sides a little, and don't know how to solve it.  So we prefer to focus on the problem we believe we CAN solve.
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Darfur is on the west side of Sudan.  There is oil in Southern Sudan.  There are religious implications such as Christians vs. Muslims and cultural implications as well. There have been 200,000 deaths in the last 2 years, but just recently the deadliest tribe signed the peace accord, so there is hope.
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Human rights violations in Darfur are not made by the Sudanese government, there are gangs named Jinjaweed who are making that kind of violations.\nThe united states has no proof that the Sudanese government is the responsible.
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Invasion of Afghanistan... anyone would have done that...\n\nMedicaid prescription program... good idea, poorly executed... but still helps some people some...\n\nI think there has been some African aids funding... that's good...\n\nHe's done some for Darfur... not enough, but doing something is better than nothing I guess?\n\nThere are more... I mean... I'm not going to say that there is nothing... \n\nBut there are many more issues that I have serious problems with than those that I like of his... but that's not what you asked...
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The problem is that the Sudan government has been basically responsible for the 1,000,000 deaths in Darfur. They haven't solved anything, except to kill non-Muslims and non-Arab Muslims.\n\nWe care because of that 1,000,000 dead. As a human being, you should also care. But, alas, most people in the world do not care how many other people die, as long as their own interests are not affected.\n\nWe just think everybody should care. We wish Kofi Anan and the UN would care, since this type of thing was the main reason the UN was created to act against.
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I am already involved in the sudanese genocide in Dufor.It really broke my heart to see the story.\n\nOver a million blacks have been forced from their homes by Arab militias backed by the government, into camps if they aren't raped/killed on the way as tens of thousands have been. Now, the rainy season is coming which will worsen the sickness and malnutrition already rampant in the camps and make it tougher for aid to get in.\n\n I have sent a small but helpful donation.I wish I could go there and do some hands on help...especuially with the children who are homeless and in trouble.\n\nA big thank you for posting this and making others aware!!!
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The CIA should stick to intelligence and logistics and leave military planning to the military. As for the military becoming involved in giving the Darfur rebels stingers, I disagree. I don't think that the rebels are in a stable position, right now. The African Union is there and maybe it needs to grow in strength to fight off the Sudanese. We should look into WHO is funding the Sudanese! Last time I checked, it was companies like Talisman in Canada doing the major funding of Sudan. Maybe Talisman has backed out - but other companies are still funding Sudan. We boycotted all of their products once - we can do it again. Does YOUR stock support the Sudanese government?
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Ah, Kofi. Before being SG, Kofi was in charge of UN peacekeeper forces. While there he kept getting urgent messages from the UN troops in Rwanda. He promptly ignored them, and 800,000 people were brutally murdered. What a hero Kofi is.\n\nAnd in reviewing the atrocities in Darfur, Kofi has seen no genocide, despite over 1,000,000 blacks being killed by the Arab Muslim government and its agents. Heck, he has no problem with Sudan being on the UN Human Rights commission. And, he seems to have no problem with the fact that over $25 billion was kicked back to Saddam in the UN Oil-for-Blood Money scandal.\n\nSo, as far as I can see, Kofi is a typical useless tea-sipping corrupt and uncaring sack of manure.\n\nThat's why Clinton loved him so much. So alike.
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Here's a thought, why don't you go study up on a few countries who's citizens really suffer. Here's one for you to get started on : Darfur. It's citizens are being slaughtered. Why do you feel that Mexico and it's citizens are suffering so badly when genocide is still going on in other countries? Maybe you should get out of the town you live in and find out what suffering really is.
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Darfur is the southern region of Sudan, inhabited by very poor farmers and villagers who are black Christians.  The government of Sudan is controlled by Arab Muslims, and they want the land, so they have sent militias, called Janjaweed, to massacre entire villages in Darfur.  The people of Darfur are faced with the choice of leaving their homes and risking starvation, or staying and risking the militias.  More than 100,000 people have been killed, and countries like the US and Europe, who have resources and could help them, have done very little.
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How do the same people who want US out of Iraq, justify US in Darfur?\n\nI agree that Darfur is tragic, but how do you justify it?  There is at least a reasonable link between fighting terrorism in Iraq, and half of the US doesn't consider stopping terrorism a reasonable justification to go to war.
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What is the U.N. doing about the genocide in Darfur?\nWhat they do about everything else..They are siting around in 1000 dollar suits paid for by American Tax dollars talking about the problem.
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what's funny is... they ignore Saddam's major genocidal purges... and after they are mostly over... then we invade? a lot of good that does...\n\nI guess they are waiting for the genocide to stop before we go in to "free the people" of Darfur?
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Here's some helpful articles about it. The death toll they are estimating is 937,000\n\nhttp://in.news.yahoo.com/040404/137/2cdu3.html\n\nhttp://www.ppu.org.uk/genocide/g_rwanda1.html
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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.