Is Darfur Genocide?

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Recently I saw the movie Attack on Darfur. This movie changed my life completely. No matter how horrifying the attacks got, I had to keep my eyes open, and I had to continue watching. The whole film opened my eyes on what was really happening, and since that day, I have never been more content on helping this place. This is in fact genocide, because over 2.5 million people have been driven out of their homes, and taken away from thier families.

Freshman in Highschool of CA 2:48PM December 06, 2010

How can we allow these things to happen in today’s world? The entire world needs to know what’s truly going in Darfur; we need to reach more people. I have recently been told about a new film called Attack on Darfur which deals honestly with the happenings in the country. I hope it helps to get the word out to a bigger audience.

john of FL 3:03PM September 17, 2010

Have you ever seen the movie Hotel Rwanda? It is about the genocide performed by the Interhamwae in Rwanda in 1994. There is a scene in which a U.S. video reporter is asked by the hotel manager and main character how when people see all of this devastating footage they could NOT help. He says "yes, when people see this on there television, they will say 'oh that is so horrible', and go back to eating their dinner". This is how truly numb we are. REDICULOUS.

Sierra Brown of WA 12:58PM May 27, 2009

This has been goin on so long obviously people don't care are we a;; in humane???

Katie of MI 10:36AM April 16, 2009

The background to the indictment of al-Bashir can be found in the Morenogate scandal at the ICC. For more information on Morenogate please go to www.article42-3.org.

Justice! 12:06PM August 23, 2008

It is sad and truly terrible that the fate of Darfur hangs on one word; genocide. The arguments over whether or not the mass killings, displacements, and systematic devastation of a population can wear the badge of "genocide" is no more then an exercise in semantics.

The Darfuri people have their homes attacked, burned. There families killed. Then travel for days and sometimes weeks to "safety" only to face starvation and dehydration. With estimates of 400,000 dead and over 2.5 million internally displaced does it really matter what we call it. Are we so numb to the suffering of others that we will sit by and do nothing, allowing these atrocities to continue?

The reality is people are dying, women continue to be raped and brutalized, and children are witnessing unspeakable horrors and growing up in a community of instability and violence- all at the hands of the Sudanese government.

Shannon Thorndyke of FL 1:59PM August 21, 2008

Dear Mr. Dealey,

Iit was suppose to say the following.

You question the "logic — and, in truth, fairness — that the prosecutor should hold a press conference announcing his charges without actually revealing them".

The explanation is easy. The day before Moreno-Ocampo made the announcment concerning al Bashir, he had lost a case before the ILO administrative tribunal concerning the dismissal of a close aid to Moreno-Ocampo who had put forward a complaint against Moreno-Ocampo involving rape or other secual misconduct. So far Moreno-Ocampo has been succesful with his cover-up. Hardly anybody is writing about this connection.

Read more on http://klamberg.blogspot.com/2008/07/ngra-lnkar-om-morenogate.html

A reader 10:00AM August 21, 2008

Dear Mr. Dealey,

Your question the "logic — and, in truth, fairness — that the prosecutor should hold a press conference announcing his charges without actually revealing them".

The explanation is easy. The day before Moreno-Ocampo made the announcment concerning al Bashir, he had lost a case before the ILO administrative tribunal concerning the dismissal of a close aid to Moreno-Ocampo who had put forward a complaint against Moreno-Ocampo involving rape or other secual misconduct. So far Moreno-Ocampo has been succesful with his cover-up. Hardly anybody is writing about this connection.

Read more on http://klamberg.blogspot.com/2008/07/ngra-lnkar-om-morenogate.html

A reader 9:54AM August 21, 2008

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Sam Dealey is a contributing editor at U.S. News & World Report and Reader's Digest. He has written for many publications, including Time, GQ, the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal.

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