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The genocide in the Darfur region of Sudan has gone too far. 400,000 humans are dead as of April 20th, 2005, and millions more are displaced and starving. No one has the right to murder, but we have been given the power to stop it. You may not believe in life, but I don't believe in death.
-Yann Martel
It is our choices that show who we truly are, far more than our abilities.
-J.K. Rowling
August 16

Here We Go Again

Holocaust: 6 million dead
 
The world in form of the UN vowed it would never happen again.
 
Rwanda: 800,000 dead
 
We watched and did nothing.
 
Sudan: 400,000 dead and we're still watching.
 
Time's up. We need to do something.
 
gen·o·cide n.   The systematic and planned extermination of an entire national, racial, political, or ethnic group.
 
Crimes of War in the Sudan:
 
  • Pitting ethnic groups against each other
  • Restricting international humanitarian access, which threatens mass starvation
  • Bombing civilian targets with aircraft
  • Razing villages
  • Targeting and destroying food and water supplies
  • Abducting children
  • Raping and murdering women and young girls
  • Castrating and attacking men
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    If those who have the power to make change (us) ignore those they can help, what atrocities will we be accomplices to? It is convenient to blame the government and the UN for not preventing such horrors, but the UN is an imperfect organization in an imperfect world, and it is only capable of as much as what the member states will allow. Canada is a member state, we are members of Canada, and, personally, I don’t want to allow any country’s political groups, or any groups for that matter, to roam the countryside, raping and murdering anyone they wish. The first step to solving an issue is to become educated and form an opinion on it, then it is possible to work towards fixing that issue. Become educated, become active, and let's to create a better world.
     
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