"The structure of world peace...rests on the cooperative effort of the whole world"- FDR
Today I went to go see "Hotel Rwanda" with jess and alyssa. It was so moving. I cried so much. It is probably the best movie that I have ever seen. The horrible thing is that that REALLY happened only a decade ago, and people here in the US don't even know about it, or don't even care enough to know about it. Hey guess what? It's happening again and has been happening for the past year! In Darfur, and still the UN is doing nothing. The united states is doing even less. AWESOME. Sure, when 200,000 people die from the tsunami the entire world drops everything to chip in. But when the same number of people if not more are being massacred by other human beings simply because of their ethnicity, the world turns a blind eye. Even though Colon Powell acknowledged that "acts of genocide are occurring in Sudan" the UN refuses to call it genocide, because over 130 countries including the US, Great Britain, Russia, China, and Japan all signed a treaty(aptly entitled "Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide") that requires the signatories to prevent and stop genocide wherever it occurs in the world. But now everyone is too afraid to label what is happening as genocide, because then they are responsible for intervening. Over 700,000 people died in Rwanda because the world did nothing and it is happening again, and still the world does nothing. It is so frustrating to have such a small voice in such a big world. But it makes no sense to me that no world leader has the human decency to help the innocent people being killed.
Back in October I wrote an article for the Newspaper at UMass about Darfur, thinking that maybe if more people knew about what was going on then something could be done, even on a local level. But it was never printed- most likely because it was too long, too heated, or too anti-bush, either that or there was simply no room for international politics in a college newspaper which is ridiculous. This should be everyones problem, and anyone that simply brushes it off like its not their problem, just like Bush and the UN should be ashamed of themselves.
Take an interest in the human race and look beyond political boundaries. If we can't do that, then we are useless to the world.
http://hrw.org/campaigns/darfur/
Go there and then go see Hotel Rwanda and understand how the world is suffering, then maybe everything that seems so bad in your life won't be so bad. Get some perspective.
Back in October I wrote an article for the Newspaper at UMass about Darfur, thinking that maybe if more people knew about what was going on then something could be done, even on a local level. But it was never printed- most likely because it was too long, too heated, or too anti-bush, either that or there was simply no room for international politics in a college newspaper which is ridiculous. This should be everyones problem, and anyone that simply brushes it off like its not their problem, just like Bush and the UN should be ashamed of themselves.
Take an interest in the human race and look beyond political boundaries. If we can't do that, then we are useless to the world.
http://hrw.org/campaigns/darfur/
Go there and then go see Hotel Rwanda and understand how the world is suffering, then maybe everything that seems so bad in your life won't be so bad. Get some perspective.