CALL MR. BUSH 202 456 1111 AND TELL HIM TO LIVE UP TO HIS WORDS, NOT ON MY WATCH
Call Mr. Bush and tell him
He Is Standing Idly By
202-456-1111
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STOPPING GENOCIDE IS A CHOICE AND WE CHOOSE NOT TO
The Secret Genocide Archive
By Nicholas D. Kristof
The New York Times
Photos don't normally appear on this page. But it's
time for all of us to look squarely at the victims of our indifference.
These are just four photos in a secret archive of thousands of photos and reports that document the genocide under way in
This African Union archive is classified, but it was shared with me by someone who believes that Americans will be stirred if they can see the consequences of their complacency.
The first photo was taken in the
The second photo shows the corpse of a man with an injured leg who was apparently unable to run away when the janjaweed militia attacked.
The third photo is a man who fled barefoot and almost made it to this bush before he was shot dead.
Last is the skeleton of a man or woman whose wrists are still bound. The attackers pulled the person's clothes down to the knees, presumably so the victim could be sexually abused before being killed. If the victim was a man, he was probably castrated; if a woman, she was probably raped.
There are thousands more of these photos. Many of them show attacks on children and are too horrific for a newspaper.
One wrenching photo in the archive shows the manacled hands of a teenager from the girls' school in Suleia who was burned alive. It's been common for the Sudanese militias to gang-rape teenage girls and then mutilate or kill them.
Another photo shows the body of a young girl, perhaps 10 years old, staring up from the ground where she was killed. Still another shows a man who was castrated and shot in the head.
This archive, including scores of reports by the monitors on the scene, underscores that this slaughter is waged by and with the support of the Sudanese government as it tries to clear the area of non-Arabs. Many of the photos show men in Sudanese Army uniforms pillaging and burning African villages. I hope the African Union will open its archive to demonstrate publicly just what is going on in
The archive also includes an extraordinary document seized from a janjaweed official that apparently outlines genocidal policies. Dated last August, the document calls for the "execution of all directives from the president of the republic" and is directed to regional commanders and security officials.
"Change the demography of
It's worth being skeptical of any document because forgeries are possible. But the African Union believes this document to be authentic. I also consulted a variety of experts on
Certainly there's no doubt about the slaughter, although the numbers are fuzzy. A figure of 70,000 is sometimes stated as an estimated death toll, but that is simply a U.N. estimate for the deaths in one seven-month period from nonviolent causes. It's hard to know the total mortality over two years of genocide, partly because the Sudanese government is blocking a U.N. team from going to
So what can stop this genocide? At one level the answer is technical: sanctions against
But that's the narrow answer. What will really stop this genocide is indignation. Senator Paul Simon, who died in 2003, said after the Rwandan genocide, "If every member of the House and Senate had received 100 letters from people back home saying we have to do something about
The same is true this time. Web sites like darfurgenocide.org and savedarfur.org are trying to galvanize Americans, but the response has been pathetic.
I'm sorry for inflicting these horrific photos on you. But the real obscenity isn't in printing pictures of dead babies - it's in our passivity, which allows these people to be slaughtered.
During past genocides against Armenians, Jews and Cambodians, it was possible to claim that we didn't fully know what was going on. This time, President Bush, Congress and the European Parliament have already declared genocide to be under way. And we have photos.
This time, we have no excuse.
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End of Nicholas Kristof’s article
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The above article is from the following link:
http://www.truthout.org/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi/38/9182
The above pictures are from the New York Times website
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Our only excuse is that we don’t care that unarmed, innocent families are being slaughtered, maimed, burned alive, raped, tortured because it isn’t US!
We should have to wear t-shirts that say “I don’t care that unarmed, innocent families are being slaughtered, maimed, burned alive, raped, tortured because it isn’t US!” If this was a reality show, we’d probably pay it more attention. Our silence is our response. There is nothing civil about our silence. We have a voice and we have the power to join together and demand that our elected governmental representatives in
Stopping genocide is a choice. We feel we have nothing to lose by ignoring the Darfuri people getting slaughtered. We feel it’s not US, so why get involved. It’s a good thing it’s not US, the world would probably not want to get involved with saving US either. We are not respected in the world today. Our President Bush has done more damage to our standing in the world than any President in my lifetime. Sure, the last two sentences are my humble but worthy opinion.
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STOP AND PREVENT GENOCIDE
IT'S THE HUMANE THING TO DO
"NEVER AGAIN" IS MEANINGLESS WITHOUT THE POLITICAL WILL
Where there is a will, there is always a way
and where there is no will, there is never a way, Mr. Bush.
Call Mr. Bush daily and ask him
to live up to his words, "Not On My Watch"
202-456-1111
At SaveDarfur’ site type in 02871 and find my
www.genocideintervention.net
www.sudandivestment.com
We are all the keepers of justice,
OR not.
Democracy doesn't work without "We the People" speaking out.
Use Your Voice.
Be quiet and Darfuri’s die.
All a genocide needs to be successful is for good people to do nothing.
GENOCIDE THRIVES when there is NO ACCOUNTABILITY
YOU COULD MAKE THE DIFFERENCE
WHAT STAND WILL YOU TAKE?
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