I got to see John Prendergrast speak a few months ago. He told a story of a woman in Sudan who was trying to escape a Janjaweed raid, and as she was running with her 5 children, a militiaman grabbed one of them and threw him into a burning hut. She kept going. A minute later, a different militiaman grabbed another of her children, lifted him up, and shot him in the head. She kept going. She managed to escape with 3 out of 5 children. When John met her, she told him this story, and said the obvious: "Now you know what is happening here. Tell others."

He recommended calling 1-800-GENOCIDE, which has recorded messages and will put you right in touch with your reps.

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GENOCIDE (oops, sorry for the caps)
genocide is not as much darfur as it is the united states, canada, great brittain, and france for a start.

i find it beyond ironic that there is no coverage on the rawanda trials right now, how france colluded and how i believe the un colluded in the fabrication of the hutu-tootsi genocide, how the un was fully aware of what was brewing and how france helped create it.

i find it beyond ironic that the unitesd states with the aid of great brittain and canada, helped the khmer rouge gain a seat at the UN even after everyone knew about the killing fields. this allowed the khmere rouge to raid the refugee camps in trat, thailand, filled with refugees of the khmer genocide, arm the survivors and send them back on a suicide mission against the US enimy, Vietnam. Canada got em the seat and helped block the numerous attempts to get em out. Brittain showed the khmer how to lay landmines (u can still see em where the UK troops landed to give em the mines by KEP, CAMBODIA)...

now we have UK troops caught dressed as "terrorists" in basra, killing local cops to try and get away when caught (later the UK troops sieged the police station to get em out)...

the reason the western attempts to stop genocide are flicked away like so many pesky flies, is because we have never dealt whith our own role in creating them...

the US must be tried for genocide in CAMBODIA (carpet bombing), and FRANCE must be held accountable for HAITI and RAWANDA. CANDA must be tried for its collusion, and the rotten apples that make up the majority of the UN infastructure must be culled....

and on a lighter note, c'mon Brave new media, stop coasting on yer subject matter and start getting into filmmaking. only way beyond the choir, and even the chior gets tired of watching crappy filters and lousy effects. want to do a linklater (waking life), than do it...

wow, that was rabid, but genocide pisses me off, and the fact that what may be the biggest GENE-O-CIDE (murder of genetic groups) is going on in Iraq (dumping DU all over a genetic group), by the same group (US) that tried it in Vietnam (agent orange), and the reason it is going on is because the US got away with it in Vietnam (no war crimes trials), they are doing it again.

wanna deal with genocide, set a freakin example and do something about yer own...

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That is the way. Just support a movement based on emotion without realising the underlying cause or history of the conflicts beyond what is given by Western propaganda. Just vote for an aggressive stance. Does that mean open the gates for war… make Sudan like Iraq. Split SUDAN? I am picking Sudan as it is in the headlights of late.

The reason why there are conflicts all around those areas is simple. RESOURCES.

The CIA and western elites have been funding separate groups within the region for decades, and has brought into power dictators. USA government does not care what occurs in the regions, it cares for the resources. Just as long as the dictator is “our bastard” it is fine, it just they don’t like an independent bastard.

As to the EU, well it doesn’t give a damn either just as long as it gets it cut.

Whether the site is meant to be propaganda or not, it is. And as to its solutions, they are laughable. ICC and the US, UK are passed off as part of some of the solution. The ICC, the Imperial Criminal Court, a solution? ICC is a biased organisation that has no credibility left after the Sudan fiasco.

Darfur was starving and what did the West do? Sanctions! Well done, talk about bringing more chaos into an already stricken country. We saw what over a decade of sanctions did to Iraq. Sanctions attack the people, especially the inhumane sanctions imposed by Anglo-American Tyranny through the UN.

With each threat the so called international community makes, each sanction and political/economic penalties placed on the country they are sure to encourage one thing: the rise of warlords and men to be bought from outside. Which means the rise of separatism; which is their desired outcome.

The site mentions the LRA, what about the SPLA and UPDF and its funding? Where did the come from? Haven’t West have been supporting and arming indirectly covert operations against Khartoum for a very long time. The fact of the matter this is another divide and conquer strategy. They are trying to split Sudan and Sudan is fighting back in covert wars. Once oil was discovered, Sudan was never going to be left alone.

Divide and Conquer a strategy used all over the place. Rwanda, Lebanon, Iraq, Sudan, Congo, Uganda etc. While most countries try to heal the differences between its people, the "civilised" world try to split other countries apart according to geological riches, I mean peoples differences.

If Africa was left alone it would develop. But thanks to the WTO, IMF and proxy wars Africa is in the grasp of a neo-slavery and so is most of the undeveloped world.

Damn your suggestions of sanctions and the ICC. Leave Africa alone if that is your help. And the US administration isn’t a sound or fair judge and neither is the EU.

Let Africa figure it out themselves!

If you want to help then:
-Stop the selling of arms to Africa.
-Stop installation of puppet regimes.
-Stop the proxy wars.
-Stop the covert operations.
-Get rid of the WTO, IMF and World Bank.
-Stop imperial foreign policies.
-Stop unrestricted globalisations.
-Get rid of CIA secrecy
-Stop AFRICOM and all the other Unified Combatant Commands (UCC) from becoming reality.
-Try to heal the difference between people
-Stop the food aid that destroys agriculture of the country
-Stop Rockefeller’s AGRA

A start:
Google “Covert Action in Africa: A Smoking Gun in Washington”
Or look at the “Third World Traveler” website (Only one L).

The whole site seems to be a soft western mouth piece.

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60 Minutes War Against Women The Use Of Rape As A Weapon In Congo's Civil War

If anyone missed this, see it now. I think it puts it all into perspective.

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