"When we had Rwanda, almost everyone said we should not let it happen again. So we have a big challenge in Sudan." ~Kofi Annan
CBC reported today on a speech the UN Secretary General gave about the current situation in Sudan. How do we manage to forget everything that happened in Rwanda so quickly?
One of my collegues in the MA program and and I were talking about her interest in doing a project surrounding how governments communicate about issues of genocide or rather how they are not speaking about these atrocities. I was thinking about this today, why is it that we know what is happening in Darfur but manage to put it on the back burner while thousands of people are being displaced from their homes and killed.
This has been happening for THREE YEARS people and still our governments do nothing! What is wrong with this picture?
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I wonder the same thing often. We look back at things like the Holocaust and say, "Why did the rest of the world let that happen?" And we're turning the exact same blind eye right now.
Posted by Carly | September 15, 2006 8:52 AM
Posted on September 15, 2006 08:52