This genocide will never end...

[QueenAdrock]

I'm convinced of it. We just don't care. I got an email to ask me to call my local representative to urge them to support HR5522, which is legislation to provide $50 million in humanitarian efforts to Sudan.

From what I can tell, it's been shot down. (http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2006/ROLL_200.asp) I really wish I had gotten this email sooner. Granted, one voice doesn't make tht much of a difference, but perhaps I wouldn't feel so awful about this legislation if I had tried.

I mean, goddamn. 400,000 people are dead over there, and I'm willing to bet the average American doesn't even know what (or much less where) Darfur is. Well, except for the publicity George Clooney brought to the table. But I'd argue that they probably felt bad for a day and then continued to not give a shit because it doesn't affect them.

It can just really bother me sometimes, to see hundreds of thousands die and know that there's nothing I can do because no one else seems to give half a shit, nor will they start to. (n)

[enree erzweglle]

I was having lunch out a couple of weeks ago and mentioned to one of the people there that I've been in contact with the UN about volunteer efforts that are underway in the Sudan and she said "What's going on in the Sudan?"

:confused:

[catatonic]

I love bringing up Darfur in polite conversation.

What? Another Holocaust? Shock, awe, denial, and acceptance ensue.

[Funkaloyd]

she said "What's going on in the Sudan?"
Something about immigrants, right?

[SobaViolence]

my friend came from the sudan. not darfur, but they have 2 other regions in conflict, darfur is just the worst. he is 19 now and has a kid back there. when he was a kid, a bomb went off in a market he was in and he saw a man who was blasted in two from the waist down.

he says he still has nightmares sometimes.
we got shit drunk that night and sang to god for help.

:(

[QueenAdrock]

That's a damn shame. :(

We had a speaker from Rwanda come to UMD last year, and he gave the most gruesome and heart-wrenching story about his battle with genocide. He and his brother were taken away from their parents, and then escorted to a pit a few miles down the road. They shot and killed his brother in front of him, threw him in the pit, and then shot him (didn't kill him on the first shot, however), believed him to be dead, and threw him in the pit too. He then waited until nightfall, extracted himself from the rest of the bodies, used them to climb up to the top of the pit, ran out and found an escape route to a nearby country for help - all while still badly bleeding.

He was 10 at the time. (n)

Everyone in the audience cried and swore they'd do something to help. Later that month, everyone had forgotten and it was old news. Simply enough, it's sad, but if it doesn't affect us we don't give a shit.

[SobaViolence]

and as soon as it does affect the west, we blow it out of proportion (or into a crater) and do more evil than good.

[Funkaloyd]

What we need is for some pretty white girl to go missing in Sudan.

[QueenAdrock]

It's a step! (http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/africa/08/31/UN.sudan/index.html)

Hopefully we'll be able to do some good over there. Better late than never, right?

[D_Raay]

What we need is for some pretty white girl to go missing in Sudan.
And have her killer, who lives in Uzbekistan, show up and confess to it even though he didn't really do it.

[valvano]

who cares, college football season is getting ready to start, and then college basketball.....i'll worry about sudan next april (y)

[DroppinScience]

Maybe if the Sudan committed genocide on the basketball court you could care. :rolleyes:

[valvano]

Maybe if the Sudan committed genocide on the basketball court you could care. :rolleyes:

that would be an intentional, and the other side would get 2 shots and the ball back.....Sudan may want to reconsider :p

[QueenAdrock]

Valv, think of this. You've just seen your brother shot and killed and then your baby sister raped in a pool of his blood, right after they've beheaded your parents. And then you find out some jackass from America is saying basketball is more important than people caring about you or your loved ones.

Hearing you say that makes me ashamed for living in the same country as you. I know your answer to everything is "Who cares? Sports, lol!" but I never thought you'd drop so low as to use it as a response to genocide.

I know that in today's society, people want to make light of situations because they're depressing, but for once, have some compassion. People are dying and no one should be giving a fuck about something as trivial as college sports.

[chrisd]

The genocide in sudan is being committed by islamists; fight islamism-fight their genocides (present and future)

[Schmeltz]

And how exactly do you fight an ideology? Because the bombs and bullets approach sure hasn't done much good in the last five years. Or the last sixty, for that matter.