Thursday, September 21, 2006

Every day it seems this crisis in Darfur is becoming more and more prominent in the public eye. The civil war, if you will, started over three years ago and was prompted by the Sudanese government with the help of Janjaweed militia. Since that time, over 200,000 people have been reportedly killed and over 2.5 million forced out of their homes into refugee camps. Once a person is in a camp, they are still not safe. Let me paint this gruesome picture of reality for you: throughout the day, hundreds and thousands of women and young girls are raped and beaten for most of the men are killed right away; there is no way for these people to acquire any food or drink so they are dying of starvation. The African Union force, barley armed with more than their bravery, have done their best to protect the people in these camps from the slaughtering of the militia. But these forces have been told, by they Sudanese government, to stop defending these helpless people. In turn, millions of unarmed people will be executed.

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