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Originally posted by Saturnmoth007:
I don't mean to sound pessimistic, but there is nothing we can do to help the people of Darfur.

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And even better, there are ways for us to get involved in raising awareness and even writing to our government. This is the best and most important thing we can do right now considering most of us our still in high school or college. The fact that there are a scarce amount of people who have even heard about this is just sad and alarming. This has been raging on for over 3 years. We all should be aware of this. Anyway, here's where you can go to get involved: click here! Click on "high school students" or "college students" depending on where you fall. Although I recommend clicking on college b/c there is more there.

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Originally posted by THEAARONMATSON: screw darfur

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Sudan under pressure to accept UN Darfur mission - 7/14/2006
Reuters

World powers will next week press Sudan to accept a United Nations peacekeeping mission in Darfur amid reports of increasing violence in the province. Tens of thousands have been killed and 2.5 million people forced into camps during three years of rape, murder and pillage in Darfur, in lawless western Sudan. A conference in Brussels on Tuesday attended by the European Union, the United States and U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan will urge Sudan to allow a U.N. mission to replace an ill-equipped and over-extended African Union force in an attempt to stop the violence. "A U.N. operation is the only viable and realistic option in Darfur in the long term," the European Union will say on the eve of the meeting according to a draft declaration obtained by Reuters.

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Sudan: Government to Lobby Rwanda On Darfur - 6/30/2006
The New Times (Kigali)

The Sudanese government is planning to send a delegation to Rwanda in its efforts to seek support from African countries in a bid to block a United Nations peacekeeping force from going to Darfur."Rwanda and Burundi are good countries and are near us. We shall also go there to seek for their support against the proposal to replace the African Union peacekeeping forces with those of the United Nations. We shall go there like we are doing to other countries so that we can be supported in our efforts to block these troops from coming to Darfur," he said.

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6/23/06
The United States plans to keep pressing for an international force in Sudan's war-torn Darfur province, despite fierce opposition from Sudanese President Omar al-Beshir. But two years after dubbing the government repression in Darfur as "genocide," and six weeks after the signing of the Abuja peace accord, the United States has not yet managed to get the international community to budge, while violence rages on, experts say. "I think our diplomacy is going to be consistent," State Department spokesperson Adam Ereli said on Wednesday. "It's based on a strong and unified international consensus, frankly, that the current peacekeeping mission in Darfur must be transitioned to a UN force." Washington has considerable support for deploying a UN force to the region, including that of UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo, the AU, the European Union and Nato, an expert said. But the support is not unanimous. "The Sudanese are taking advantage of certain factors. They are able to draw support from within the Arab League, they are able to play their friendship with the Chinese and the Russians in the Security Council, ... they are able to play off the fallout of the war in Iraq, ... and they are advantaged by the fact that AU itself is divided and is intimidated," Stephen Morrison of the Centre for Strategic and International Studies said.



U.N. Leader Downplays Sudan Rejection - 6/22/2006
Associated Press

The head of U.N. peacekeeping downplayed the Sudanese president's rejection of a U.N. mission for Darfur Wednesday, saying it was not the end of the story. President Omar al-Bashir on Tuesday accused Jewish groups of pressing for the U.N. mission, and vowed never to let U.N. peacekeepers into Sudan's western region of Darfur. "Obviously, we would like to hear a different opinion," U.N. peacekeeping chief Jean-Marie Gehenno told The Associated Press shortly after meeting al-Bashir. "We want to believe that this is not the end of the road." Gehenno said he had assured the Sudanese president that the UN had no "hidden agenda." "There are many misunderstandings about the U.N.'s goals in Darfur that we are trying to solve with the Sudanese government," said Gehenno. In Washington, State Department spokesman Adam Ereli pressed for Sudan to accept the U.N. force. "As long as violence continues in Darfur, the Sudanese Government is going to be held responsible, regardless of the circumstances," the spokesman said.

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It just seems as if we're the world's police again. We can't stay out of foreign affairs and doing this going to get us into major trouble. We can't help everybody!