Wednesday, October 13, 2004

   in closing
Continuing form my suden stop last night, I think things right now are pretty decent, regardless of whatever may be wrong, like lame friggin teachers and missing mothers and what-not, very little will probably be remembered even just a few months from now. UNless of course it's a big incident like that which is currently going on in Sudan. And that brings me to the focus of this writing here today, that's what I want to talk about.
Like many countries in Africa, the people of Sudan were left in a chaotic state when freed from colonization. This large group of people whom had no affiliation to eachother before imperialism now found themselves viewed as one by the rest of the world.
Unfortunately, those who came into power in most African countries were still very tribe based, so now the tribe of whoever is in power tends to get all the best jobs, homes, etc. And in Sudan recently, this had become the reason for genocide. A genocide supported by the government of the country.
They government of Sudan is curently aiding an Arabic militia group in the racial extermination of various tribal people belonging to tribes of suspected members of rebel factions. Men and children, thousands and thousands of them have been killed already. Women are typically kept alive for the purpose of being raped. Needless to say things in Sudan right now are in a grotesquely horrible state.
Yet what do we do? Very little of this is on the news, nobody in the United States government (or any other government, it seems) is doing a damned thing about it. People are much more concerned with Martha Stewart, or Kobe Bryant, or the presidential election than about these thousands of innocent people being murdered.
Even worse is that such things are not unusual in Africa. Quite common, in some places - just not usually on such a large scale.
So I'm just writing this in hopes that one or two people who may not have known of what is currently going on over there to learn of it. Get some more people to at least pray or something, I don't know. It's depressing to know that chances are, my country (the US) ain't gonna do a thing about it, maybe give a little speech. I wish there was something I could do to help those people, and I can't understand why those with the ability to do so don't. They're just sitting around on worrying about themselves.
"The only thing neccesary for the triumph of evil is for
good men to do nothing."
-Edmund Burke


EDIT: As the hours and days increase, so does the death count. I wish I could give a good, accurate count, but nobody seems to be able to keep track. It's only getting worse. And still nobody in power is doing anything.

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