save darfur
since February 2003, government-sponsored militias known as the Janjaweed have conducted a calculated campaign of slaughter, rape, slavery, starvation and displacement in Darfur.
it is estimated that 400,000 people have died due to violence, starvation and disease. more than 2.5 million people have been displaced from their homes, over 200,000 have fled across the border to Chad and 3.5 million people are now hungry. many now live in camps lacking adequate food, shelter, sanitation, health care and most importantly safety.
this is a photo from the Rwandan genocide in 1994. our government did nothing in 1994. although world leaders vowed to never again allow this kind of violence to ensue, the united states again, for the past 2 years have turned the other cheek.
i hate to do this. it make my stomach turn and my heart ache but i feel that i must post these photos. although our government sits aside as innocent women, children and men and raped, tortured and killed for senseless reasons, we can do something. check out this site ~ http://www.savedarfur.org/ there are many more like it. get informed, donate, sign petitions. anything you can do, do it. it's such a hard thing to think about, this kind of brutality in a nation where we are so blessed and safe. but please, don't turn your cheek away from them like our world leaders. not since the Rwanda genocide of 1994 has the world seen such a calculated campaign of slaughter, rape, starvation and displacement.
it is estimated that 400,000 people have died due to violence, starvation and disease. more than 2.5 million people have been displaced from their homes, over 200,000 have fled across the border to Chad and 3.5 million people are now hungry. many now live in camps lacking adequate food, shelter, sanitation, health care and most importantly safety.
this is a photo from the Rwandan genocide in 1994. our government did nothing in 1994. although world leaders vowed to never again allow this kind of violence to ensue, the united states again, for the past 2 years have turned the other cheek.
i hate to do this. it make my stomach turn and my heart ache but i feel that i must post these photos. although our government sits aside as innocent women, children and men and raped, tortured and killed for senseless reasons, we can do something. check out this site ~ http://www.savedarfur.org/ there are many more like it. get informed, donate, sign petitions. anything you can do, do it. it's such a hard thing to think about, this kind of brutality in a nation where we are so blessed and safe. but please, don't turn your cheek away from them like our world leaders. not since the Rwanda genocide of 1994 has the world seen such a calculated campaign of slaughter, rape, starvation and displacement.
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