Sunday, April 29, 2007
Rwanda-Darfur what is going on?
It is a gorgeous
sunny day here on the island today. I feed the kids breakfast, made my
coffee, feed the cats and cleaned the litter box and now I am sitting
down to blog.
Last night we watched something I wanted to blog about, a movie that was almost three hours long on HBO about the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. An estimated 800,000 to 1,000,000 Rwandans were killed in 100 days of slaughter.And this got me highly upset.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/evil/
Today in 2007 we are dealing with Darfur a conflict which began in July 2003 and still continues today. There are various estimates as to how many deaths have occurred. However they all concur that the range is within the hundreds of thousands. The UN estimates that the conflict has left as many as 450,000 dead from violence and disease. Most (non-governmental organizations) use 200,000 to over 400,000, . And why do we continue dumping trillions and trillions of dollars into Iraq when we should be dumping trillions of dollars in Africa. We can no longer sit by and let this continue. We must start help heal the world.
http://www.darfurgenocide.org/
If you get a chance also watch the movie Hotel Rwanda http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotel_Rwanda you will be angry you will cry and you will be outraged but you can do something. You can spread the word and write our congress to make changes.
So today I am going to spend the day thinking about what I can do help. As the average American citizen what can I do to help in Africa. Maybe I need to start a writing campaign maybe I need to start a blog about it. I am not sure. But I need to do something. It makes me sick to my stomach that this is still happening in Africa and our government does nothing to stop it or help put an end to their suffering.
Off and running now, happy Sunday.
Aloha
Bree
Last night we watched something I wanted to blog about, a movie that was almost three hours long on HBO about the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. An estimated 800,000 to 1,000,000 Rwandans were killed in 100 days of slaughter.And this got me highly upset.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/evil/
Today in 2007 we are dealing with Darfur a conflict which began in July 2003 and still continues today. There are various estimates as to how many deaths have occurred. However they all concur that the range is within the hundreds of thousands. The UN estimates that the conflict has left as many as 450,000 dead from violence and disease. Most (non-governmental organizations) use 200,000 to over 400,000, . And why do we continue dumping trillions and trillions of dollars into Iraq when we should be dumping trillions of dollars in Africa. We can no longer sit by and let this continue. We must start help heal the world.
http://www.darfurgenocide.org/
If you get a chance also watch the movie Hotel Rwanda http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotel_Rwanda you will be angry you will cry and you will be outraged but you can do something. You can spread the word and write our congress to make changes.
So today I am going to spend the day thinking about what I can do help. As the average American citizen what can I do to help in Africa. Maybe I need to start a writing campaign maybe I need to start a blog about it. I am not sure. But I need to do something. It makes me sick to my stomach that this is still happening in Africa and our government does nothing to stop it or help put an end to their suffering.
Off and running now, happy Sunday.
Aloha
Bree
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