Crisis in Darfur and Cry For Humanity
Stopping Genocide To Save People’s Lives
For the past several years in the Sudan attacks and murders have been taken against peoples living in Darfur, a region in the western part of Africa’s Sudan. To date 2.5 million refugees have been forced into camps. Yet, the Sudan is without a safe haven. Children, women and men alike have been terrorized.
Murder for Money in the Darfur Genocide
Money from international firms and governments sent to the region both help and hurt the cause for humanity and the end to war and murder. China has been accused of violating the United Nations’ embargo not to help persons involved with the conflict. It is said that China has been sending weapons to Darfur in exchange for oil. It is a ghastly case of international trade where the cost for oil is a human life. Shockingly, for some countries and businesses this is just fine.
If not for the support and voice of organizations such as Genocide Intervention, Stop Genocide Now, Save Darfur and 24 Hours for Darfur, attention on the horrors being experienced in the region might go unnoticed by the world’s larger citizenry. People might think that all is well and that nothing beyond the economic downturn is posing a threat to the human landscape.
Over the last seven years of the conflict, hundreds of thousands of humans have been murdered. The United Nations estimates the number to be over 300,000. Infant girls as young as three years old have been savagely raped. Families have been ripped apart. Boys and men have been dismembered. Bones have piled up.
Organizations That Refuse to Ignore the Darfur Crisis
After a breakout of meningitis, the International Committee of the Red Cross, has come into the region to provide medical relief. The Sudanese government has agreed to allow several aids organizations to return to the area, this after demanding that the organizations leave Darfur several weeks ago.
The United States has sent representatives into the area in attempts to restore a semblance of peace. The situation is memorable of the tragedy that struck Rwanda in 1994 where 800,000 people were murdered in approximately three months. Perhaps the knowledge that each person who murders, rapes and dismembers another human absent accountability or attempts to arrest the behavior, is a key component of expanding violent and inhumane thoughts and actions will move people around the world into swift and effective action.
What Is Being Taught and Learned
War teaches one how to become more skilled at killing. War teaches one to resolve internal psychological efforts toward peace by inventing reasons as to why someone must die before balance can be restored to a situation. War teaches humans how to kill efficiently.
Darfur is proof that hundreds, perhaps thousands, of militia and Sudanese government officials have grasped this brutal and most unfortunate lesson far too well. Each day that passes that the rest of the world does nothing to intervene in this latest genocide, is another day someone becomes more proficient at killing. It is another day that someone learns to tolerate and reason away murder.
Those who learn these lessons will travel, like intercontinental professors, to other parts of the earth and expand their teaching and their violence. The price of doing nothing at times like these is, as it always has been, too high. Time will reveal what turning a blind eye to murder and genocide cost everyone.
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