January 8

Never Again. This is what world leaders continue to say about genocide. They said it about the Holocaust, they said it about Rwanda, they said it about Bosnia. Darfur is on-going, forgotten. Before the Sudanese government signed a peace agreement, the Janjaweed (a government backed armed group) killed as many non-Arab Sudanese as possible. They then signed the peace deal to pacify the international community. The eradication of non-Arab Sudanese has been called "the final solution". The same term used by Hitler for the eradication of the Jews. The conflict began in 2003.

I understand what people mean when they talk about the North interfering in Africa as colonial and why they would say such a solution lacks sustainability. I understand that the West has in the past destroyed culture and altered facts, in order to achieve its own ends.

If it were my family being killed and raped, I wouldn't care who intervened, or why.

Indifference is not an option. Apathy inhuman. Ignorance self-destructive.
I am sick of a lack of action being coated in the guise of enlightenment, as committees of the educated and privileged discuss; the screams of the dying are muffled by the shuffling of paper. We must stop destroying ourselves.

http://www.sudanreeves.org/