Sand & Sorrow
I wrote about the Darfur crisis one or two times before, a crisis which is, beside Congo, maybe the biggest forgotten crisis in the world. 200.000 people died in this conflict in the last years, being killed or dying because of starvation. 2.5 million people are living in the IDP camps, most of them in the nearby Chad, without any chance to live a normal life. We don’t hear about all that here in our world what we sometimes think is THE world, in daily routine we forget about that there are human beings being killed, raped and suffer because of famines. Is there one world? Can we believe in that? And if your answer is yes, isn’t it our responsibility to listen, following the thought that when you listen you get involved and when you get involved things may have the chance to change?
While in Rwanda i started reading the book ‘Darfur- the ambiguous genocide’ by Gerard Prunier, a deep inside look into the roots of this conflict and the role of the international community as well, which i can highly recommend.
Also i’ve seen this two films in the last days about Darfur. Don’t be recoiled by the fact that there are also some celebrities involved, it is fine balanced i would say.
Darfur NOW
Sand and Sorrow
