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On Our Watch
Oct 11, 2007
I just saw a documentary on CBC Television entitled "On Our Watch" It documented the slow, terrible, genocide in Darfur and the complete inability of the UN to adequately respond to it. I saw the helplessness of humanitarians and aid workers as they struggled to get aid to the displaced & traumatized people of Darfur and get their superiors in the UN and other nations to take steps to stop it.

I saw the women, victimized by multiple rapes, bombings, loss of everything they had in the world including husbands and children, tell their stories. I also saw the smugness of China and the Sudanese representatives as they either denied what was going on or claim it was over-blown. It was and still is a tragedy and it shows what can happen when Countries sworn to uphold the banner of Human Rights refuse to co-operate and play petty politics with each other. It is too much for my heart to bear.

The U.N. is good at arranging for humanitarian aid, medicine, blankets, fresh drinking water to get to people in crisis. Unfortunately, its political side is not nearly that co-operative, it procrastinates, argues and ignores the brutal reality of nation states turning ethnic minorities. Perhaps, that is why it can't seem to get itself to take action when Human Rights are being trampled. I know a lot of people have little use for the UN. However, almost all U.N. failures can be laid to the refusal of its members to support concrete action when a country's sovereignty might be threatened.

However, there is a grass roots movement which is putting pressure on China and other countries to stop sending arms and to divest any holdings in the Sudan. This grass roots movement is the first in history to actively oppose genocide , I hope it grows and proves more effective than the rhetoric of our politicians.
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