STORIES ARE IMPORTANT AND YOU WON'T READ THIS STORY IN ANY NEWSPAPER TOMORROW MORNING

GENOCIDE ISN'T A SUBJECT
THAT PERPETRATORS
WANT US TO BE CURIOUS ABOUT

AND THEY HAVE PRETTY MUCH HAD THEIR WAY

AND OUR COMPLICITY IS NECESSARY

AND OUR SILENCE IS NECESSARY

AND OUR NOT HOLDING PERPETRATORS ACCOUNTABLE IS NECESSARY

TO HAVE AN ON-GOING GENOCIDE FOR OVER FIVE YEARS

AND THAT IS WHAT HAS BEEN GOING ON IN SUDAN



I am just a person who believes like most informed people of this planet that there is a genocide that has been going on for too long upon our brothers and sisters of Darfur, Sudan. The U.S. government has called it genocide since 2004. I most recently wrote about it at this post And We've Known It Is Genocide and Yet.

I am an ordinary person who has taken this human rights cause on since 2004. I give speeches about this issue in my state, have lobbied my U.S. Senators and Representatives and President Bush repeatedly about it, attended and volunteered at national rallies in Washington, D.C. and Central Park in New York City, organized a Rhode Island Dream For Darfur Torch Relay and Ceremony in conjunction with the International effort of Torch Relays in countries that have had and are having genocides reign over their people, as well as other countries around the world, written many letters to the editors published in my local newspaper in Rhode Island, The Newport Daily News, blogged about this on-going crime, been an active member of

www.savedarfur.org

www.genocideintervention.net

attended the 2007 national STAND conference of

www.standnow.org

and as a community activist leader of www.savedarfur.org I receive updated information almost daily from the non-profit organization, but also from a Darfuri man, Mohamed Suleiman who has daily contact with those on the ground in Sudan and Chad. He keeps me and other citizen activists informed about the current crimes and torture that we would otherwise not know. Today, I received this email from him:

I was asked to work as a Darfuri in Radio Afia Darfur
in September 2008. 

Radio Afia Darfur is operated from MBN (Middle East 
Broadcast Network) facility in Virginia. The Radio
program is funded by  a grant from the U.S. State
Department to the BBG (Broadcasting Board of
Government - U.S. Congress).


I moved from California to Virginia while leaving my
family and shutting down my business.

At work, I found out that the 2 editors, who are in the
Darfur department are from the Nile North of Sudan:
1-Elzubair O. Altyeb (same tribe as Al-Bashir).
2- Zahrat Abuzeid (from the far Nile North).

Their region is very important when it comes to
Darfur.

From day one and on following days and months
they made it clear to us that:

1- Darfur is humanitarian problem, not genocide
and no ethnic targeting.

2- IDP (internal displaced people) and the refugees
when contacted should talk about peace and need
for clothes, water, etc.. but not to voice their opinion
about Sudan Governments actions ( this one and
before). This is for them is propaganda.

3- Ocampo and International Criminal Court are
out to destroy Sudan (which means to them
Khartoum and North Sudan).

4- Save Darfur and other advcocacy organizations
are seen as Jewish and Zionist organizations with
Agendas in Sudan.

5- Reports and news should be dumbed down
(focus on programs like culture and heritage).

6-We Darfurians are compelled to read news
and reports in high level Arabic language.
Arabic language in Sudan is symbol of the
dominant culture.

We Darfurians, the three of us, were vocally critical
of the blatant distortion. We were threatened that
they can replace us with any Darfurians and there
are tens of them lined for our jobs, then we were
marginalized. Elzubair and Zaharat started to do
almost everything and ignoring us. They work late
and six to seven days per week just to render us
useless.

They decided to make an example of their control.
On Tuesday December 16th ~ I was called to the
new manager's office (William Sabatini- started
December 1st) and there was Alzubair and
Zaharat with the personnel manager and I was
told that my employment is terminated effective
immediately. I asked the reasons and he said
this is the end of probation period and he
retrieved recommendations (meaning Elzubair
and Zahrat) to do that.

I said to him: 

Firstly I need the reasons in writing in a letter. 

Secondly, this termination is unfair and unjust and
has nothing to do with the work here and has
everything to do with what is going on in Darfur
and Sudan. 

I pointed to Zahart and AlZubair and
said: These are from the North, they are protecting
the status quo.

I asked Zaharat: how many people of your
relative lost their lives in Darfur Genocide?
She could not reply. 

I said I know by name 31 of my relatives
perished in this Genocide. The manager's
demeanor changed and said: I apologize
to hear about your loss there. 

I said Genocide still is going on. Alzubair
laughed. I said to the manager: you see -
he is laughing!  That is how insensitive
they are to what is going in Darfur.

Again I asked about the written letter of
termination.  Already Alzubair and Zaharat
had interviewed Darfuris from tribes not
targeted by the government and
Janjaweed. Those who can be as tokens
to them.

I will never sell out those who are toiling
in the camps in Darfur and eastern Chad.
 
NEVER.

End of Mohamed's email.

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If you would like to get more information about Mohamed, please let me know.

This should not be happening here in the USA.

Join one of these groups to be a part of the answer to stopping genocide
www.savedarfur.org

www.genocideintervention.net

www.standnow.org

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IS GENOCIDE OKAY AS LONG AS IT ISN'T HAPPENING TO YOU?

I took the text I have below from a previous post of mine (March 22, 2007):

Where There Is A Will There is Always A Way

“We don’t have to wait for some great politician to be our champion.

We ARE the Champion we’ve been waiting for.

Let us Stop Waiting for Someone Else to Make the Difference

Let us STOP “Waiting for the World to Change”.

Get Inspired

By

BEING the INSPIRED

The Sudanese self-appointed, President Omar al-Beshir has an ally, China

who has been in the business of supporting the al-Beshir regime in order to get Sudan’s oil.

The collaboration of the Sudanese government with the Arab Janjaweed have been targeting the Darfuri people - targeting that fits the definition of genocide - for six years this February.

The international community of governments has virtually done nothing affective to show that genocide is unacceptable.

And all genocide needs to thrive -

is what has been happening. No accountability.

Words with no integrity.

Words of care by President Bush have proven to be just words.

You and me.

If WE care – what difference can we make?

Plenty.


Get informed.

Be moral.

Join one of these groups
to be a part of the answer to stopping genocide

www.savedarfur.org

www.genocideintervention.net

www.standnow.org

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We have been called to be human in the most basic way on this subject.

Where there is a will - there is always a way.

And where there is NO will - there is never a way.

This is not so much a religious principle, as it is simply a virtue of character.

We are our brothers' and sisters' keepers.

Picture this:

It is before dawn and you are sleeping.

Without any reason or warning, you wake up to the sound of planes bombing

your house, your neighborhood.

Just then - Janjaweed come in on horseback and camels -

pillaging and violently attacking everyone indiscriminately.

Your house and every house on your street,

in your town are burning to the ground.

You are farmers with livestock

and all your livestock are being stolen.

All of your possessions are being stolen.

You are seeing your father and brothers shot -

right in front of your eyes,

your sister is being raped in front of you.

Everyone is running away while being chased. You are scared and have no one –

you are running alone in the instant madness.

After days and days of walking you come to a barren land

where others are assembled.

You have nothing. They have nothing. But there you are.

With no food, medical help, water, no spare clothes, no facilities.

And now it has been four years that you are living like this.

You have a 4 year old child who has known nothing else...

Born of a rape.

And you wonder why no one seems to care.

This is western Sudan in Darfur and eastern Chad.

And our government and the rest of civilization stands idly by.

The end of my writing, here.

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SCREAM BLOODY MURDER

SEE IT

FIRST AIRED DECEMBER 4, 2008 at 9:00 p.m. USA - Eastern Standard Time

AND

Midnight - 2:00 A.M.

AND

3:00 A.M. - 5: 00 A.M.

AND CONTINUES TO BE AIRED - SEE MORE TIMES BELOW


The source of the links that I have below:

www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2008/scream.bloody.murder
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CNN Scream Bloody Murder
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WITNESS TO EVIL

• The world's most heinous crime
• Amanpour: Voices of hope in the face of evil
• Polish Jew gave his life defining, fighting genocide
• Priest tried to warn of Cambodia's insanity
• 'Idealist' tried to halt Saddam's Kurdish slaughter
• Read once-secret Reagan administration documents on Iraq
• 'Bombs for peace' after slaughter in Bosnia
• As genocide raged, general's pleas for help ignored
• 'A horror movie and a snuff movie'
• They killed their neighbors: genocide's foot soldiers

STORIES OF SURVIVAL

• Genocide survivor keeps memory of victims alive
• Woman opens heart to man who slaughtered her family
• Survivor recalls horrors of Cambodia
• Nusreta's story: 'We could see the blood everywhere'
• Sex slave: 'Every day we were raped'
• Color, hope return to war-ravaged city
• Buchenwald liberator, American hero dies at 83

LIFE AFTER DEATH

• 'Killing fields' survivor documents Cambodian genocide
• Former Khmer Rouge: 'If you don't do what they say, you die'
• From child refugee to reconciliation president of Rwanda
• Bone detectives seek genocide answers
• Albright, Cohen: Leadership key to preventing genocide

About the Show

CNN's Christiane Amanpour traveled to the world's killing fields to understand the world's indifference, even as courageous voices tried to "Scream Bloody Murder." A worldwide investigation and two-hour documentary, premiering on CNN/US at 9 p.m. ET/PT December 4 and on CNN International at 0200 GMT December 5.

Additional dates and times:
• CNN/US: 8 p.m. December 6; 3 a.m. and 8 p.m. December 7; and 3 a.m. December 8 (All times ET)
• CNN International: 1000, 1700 December 5; 1200, 2000 December 6; 0100, 0600, 2200 December 7 (All times GMT)

Cambodia Journal »

Reporter's Notebook

Interactive Map »

The world's killing fields
ALL ABOUT ...

1. Genocide
2. War Crimes
3. Peacekeeping and Security
4. The Holocaust
5. Darfur
6. Rwanda
7. Bosnia
8. Cambodia
9. Iraq

more topics »

Additional dates and times:
• CNN/US: 8 p.m. December 6; 3 a.m. and 8 p.m. December 7; and 3 a.m. December 8 (All times ET)
• CNN International: 1000, 1700 December 5; 1200, 2000 December 6; 0100, 0600, 2200 December 7 (All times GMT)

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'Scream Bloody Murder': CNN's Unblinking Look at Genocide

Source: www.washingtonpost.com

By Tom Shales

Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, December 4, 2008; Page C03

Offered perhaps as a grim antidote to all the chirpy, cheery holiday specials glutting the airwaves this time of year, "CNN Presents: Scream Bloody Murder," a definitely unflinching history of genocide, premieres tonight on CNN. The network's chief international correspondent, Christiane Amanpour, conducts the class, calling genocide "the world's most feared crime."

Genocide might also be called the unthinkable inevitable, since it is always condemned when discovered and yet continues to recur, wiping out entire populations, entire generations, entire cultures. The word was not invented until 1944, Amanpour says, but of course, there were examples of genocide long before it was identified.

The vilest, most infamous and most organized commission of this ultimate crime was, inarguably, Adolf Hitler's attempt to eliminate all Jews from Europe during World War II. Amanpour says the United States and its allies were aware of the slaughter but "refused" to bomb the death camps or, as many people advocated, destroy the railroad tracks leading to them. A Holocaust survivor says Hitler's anti-Semitic rampage "wasn't a priority" for the Allies -- although after the war, the crime and some of the criminals were dealt with at Nuremberg.

Elie Wiesel is the world's best-known authority on the Holocaust, but he is also an advocate for other cultures wracked by genocide. He is seen early in the program during a segment on the genocide in Cambodia at the end of the Vietnam War. "Nobody believed us," an anguished priest laments, and Wiesel understands. "Better not to believe," Wiesel says, "because if you believe, you don't sleep nights." The nightmare that the Turks visited upon the Armenians is also covered, though briefly.

Later, Amanpour takes George Herbert Walker Bush and his administration to task for failing to intercede when Saddam Hussein rained terror down on Iraq's own citizens, the Kurds, in the late 1980s. Bush later turned the proverbial blind eye to mass murder in Bosnia, Amanpour says, with the president growling at a news conference that "we are not going to get bogged down in some guerrilla warfare."

Although Bush ignored the slaughter of the Kurds, he grabbed a saber and began rattling it when Saddam invaded Kuwait -- and thus threatened the flow of oil and wealth out of the Mideast. Now that was going too far! Oil-rich Kuwait plucked at Bush's heartstrings as the dying Kurds had not: "We're dealing with Hitler revisited," he declared, adding one of his trademark threats, "This will not stand."

But Amanpour is just as hard on Bill Clinton for his response to Rwanda when the military was found to have murdered "hundreds of thousands" of men, women and children there. The Clinton administration's policy was "a failure," Amanpour says, and she includes a scene from a Clinton news conference in which he treats one of her accusations snidely: "There have been no 'constant flip-flops,' Madame," he huffs. His indignation seems false and hollow now.

CNN is celebrating 25 years of reports by star reporter Amanpour, although to attach a documentary on genocide to anything resembling a "celebration" is not very good form. Nor is it encouraging to hear Amanpour implicitly praising herself and her own courage when dealing with genocide of recent years: "Day after day, I reported the story," she says of one crisis -- and later, she notes of the shelling of Sarajevo, "I was there, reporting on the scene."

The use of a dramatic musical score, though restrained, comes across as another unnecessary intrusion; pictures as dramatic as those showing the victims of genocide don't need any underscoring or audio hype.

Amanpour ends the program with a look at the United Nations and its role in preventing and condemning genocide throughout the world, a role she contends the organization has seldom embraced with zeal. In fact, Amanpour says, "the United Nations is powerless to force its members to act even in the face of mass murder." The special is timed to the upcoming 60th anniversary of the U.N. convention on genocide.

Some may find the program tough to take at holiday time, but in fact it seems especially powerful during a season in which "peace on Earth" and "good will toward men" are being extolled from street corners.

"Scream Bloody Murder" isn't subtle, but then the subject rather precludes subtlety -- and instead demands the kind of doggedly powerful approach that Amanpour brings to it.

CNN Presents: Scream Bloody Murder (two hours) airs tonight at 9 on CNN.

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Samantha Power speaks of responsibility regarding genocide
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Blowin' in the Wind sung by Odetta
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We have a moral obligation in this country to speak out against our government's actions if we believe in our hearts that something is wrong or if our government needs to take a stand when it refuses to. That is who we should be and what we should have the courage to live out. I believe - it's an unspoken creed of decency.

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WHAT TIME IS IT IN DARFUR?

IT IS TIME TO ACT

THE GENOCIDE ON THE DARFURI FAMILIES IS FIVE AND A HALF YEARS TOO LONG.

I urge anyone who has a conscience about genocide to take action. I ask you personnally to join me in signing the post card that can be linked to below. This email came to me today:

Dear Sandra,

During last night's presidential debate, I watched as Sens. McCain and Obama spoke about the United States' responsibility to end the crisis in Darfur.

It was a moving moment for me, and an important one for our movement. In the past week, we've heard the next president and vice president of the United States call for leadership to end the suffering.

Now we must ensure that strong words in debates turn into strong actions in the Oval Office. And to do it, we must raise our voices together as one.

Add your voice today—send a postcard to the next president urging Day One action on Darfur.

Think about it: millions of Americans just heard the next president of the United States talk about ending the genocide. This was only possible because of your outspoken support for Darfur.

We can't let up. Your actions have compelled the next president to speak strongly about Darfur. Now we must compel the next president to act strongly on Darfur from Day One of his administration.

One million voices calling for U.S. leadership—voices from all political parties, all faiths, all walks of life—can compel the next president to act.

Sign the postcard and make sure the new president acts on his promise to the people of Darfur.

When thousands upon thousands of citizens of conscience speak with one voice, our leaders listen. That's how we've gotten this far. Now let's continue to hold them accountable. Let's demand that they keep faith with the people of Darfur.

My best,

Jerry Fowler
Save Darfur Coalition

www.savedarfur.org

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Some Related News....

Thousands flooded by Sudan dam closure: villagers

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Thousands of Sudanese villagers were flooded out of their homes on Tuesday, village representatives said, blaming the floods on a new $2 billion dam on the River Nile.

But the Sudan government's Dams Implementation Unit denied it had shut the gates of the Merowe dam, downriver from the villages, saying any floods were caused by seasonal rains.

Many villagers from the northern Manaseer area are refusing to leave their river-side farms and homes to make way for the Chinese-built dam designed to double Sudan's electricity supply.

The dam, which is due to start generating power by the end of the year, will flood a large part of the surrounding area 350 km (220 miles) north of Khartoum.

Hashim Ali, spokesman for a committee representing the Manaseer villagers, told Reuters more than 1,000 families on four islands in the Nile were stranded without food and shelter on Tuesday morning.

"Right now parts of the islands are being submerged ... Farms near the river have been destroyed. They are fighting the water. The people have had to go to higher ground on the middle of the islands," he said.

He said villagers had been left without help as local authority offices were closed on Tuesday, the first day of the Eid holiday marking the end of the Muslim Ramadan fast.

"They (the dam managers) have chosen this day to commit this crime. The officials are off and no one will hear us," he said.

Tens of thousands of other villagers have already been displaced by the dam project, but the Manaseer villagers are refusing to move saying houses built for them by the government are too far from the river and would not have the water needed to sustain their agriculture.

Ali said waters started rising on Sunday when managers closed the gates to test Merowe dam, around 100km (60 miles) downriver from the islands, and floods had peaked in the early hours of Tuesday morning.

But a spokesman for the Dams Implementation Unit dismissed the accusations. "The gates have not been shut. This area floods every year," he said.

The spokesman added that other villagers who had agreed to move had already started harvesting crops in their new locations. The local authority would have the responsibility of dealing with any people who refused to move, he added.

Access to the entire area is tightly monitored by the Dams Implementation Unit which reports directly to the presidency.

Police have killed protesters in Merowe in the past and arrested journalists going to the region to report.

Source: www.sudan.net