Bordering the Red Sea, between Egypt and Eritrea, lies the country of Sudan. The nation has been embroiled in a civil war for almost all its existence over the fifty years since it won its independence from the United Kingdom. The ongoing wars are rooted in northern economic, political, and social domination of non-Muslim, non-Arab southern Sudanese. Since 1983, the war and war- and famine-related effects have led to more than 2 million deaths and over 4 million people displaced. Life expectancy for the Sudanese is only 58 years.
In Darfur, a region in southern Sudan approximately the size of Texas, over a million people are threatened with torture and death at the hands of marauding militia and a complicit government. Imagine a militia that forces parents to choose whether their children will be burned alive or shot to death. Imagine that in the very same month the world remembers the genocides of Cambodia and Rwanda, the unfolding news of another in Sudan is barely heard and largely ignored.
Jim Moore is leading an effort designed to raise the awareness of the Sudanese genocide and put it to a final stop. Be sure to check out this great resource and pass the link around.
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