400,000 dead
2,000,000 forced from their homes
3,500,000 dependant on international aid just to survive
I know I don't often get political on my blog, but knowing that genocide is going unchecked as I'm still digesting Thanksgiving lefotvers made me a little ill. Read on:
SaveDarfur.org has a post called "Background" that's worth checking out...
Darfur has been embroiled in a deadly conflict for over three years. At least 400,000 people have been killed; more than 2 million innocent civilians have been forced to flee their homes and now live in displaced-persons camps in Sudan or in refugee camps in neighboring Chad; and more than 3.5 million men, women, and children are completely reliant on international aid for survival. Not since the Rwandan genocide of 1994 has the world seen such a calculated campaign of displacement, starvation, rape, and mass slaughter...Check out the site and sign the petition to ask Secretary-General Kofi Annan of the U.N. and Prestident George Bush to deploy already approved peacekeeping forces and strengthen international aid to save lives.
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