The Future History of Darfur

When your children and grandchildren study the genocide of Darfur in the future, what will you tell them when they ask why no one helped? Reading about the holocaust as a child, made me angry. Seeing a film like Sophie’s Choice made me sick and I couldn’t imagine living in a time in which something as vile as genocide occurred.

Now, whether people want to acknowledge it as a genocide the reality is, the people of Darfur have been raped, beaten and murdered. They have been driven from their homes. Those that have survived initially are living in overcrowded refugee camps. They depend on food from relief organizations to survive. If forces are able to halt the relief efforts and prohibit them from completing their deliveries, the people in the camps will not eat and they will die.

They cannot survive indefinitely in the camps. There is not enough sanitation, or even living space. The story of Darfur will be written in history books and our children will ask how we let this happen.