Are there any songs about recent genocide?

Question

If anyone knows of any current songs about current genocides like Rwanda or Darfur, please tell me the name of the song and the artist. (Need for a project)

Answer 1

I don't know about songs describing these genocides. But I used to write about Southern Sudan and about the NATO terror in former Yugoslavia.

Answer 2

"Song for Sarowiwa" about the ongoing genocide in Ogoniland/Biafra over corrupt oil deals between Dutch Shell and the Nigerian government, including the unlawful execution of organizer Ken Sarowiwa whose followers still seek justice.

Music: by Coven "One Tin Soldier" (c) 1969 Dennis Lambert Brian Potter
Lyrics: Emily Nghiem
http://www.houstonprogressive.org/ogonisong.html
Broadcast and Recorded Live, Feb.2006, KPFT Pacifica Radio

Song for Sarowiwa

Here's a story of a struggle
Taking place across the sea
Between the peaceful
Ogoni people
And the Dutch Shell company

The southern region of Biafra
Is sitting on an oil reserve
Blood is spilled by those who drill
But cannot quench
The endless thirst

They pillage and rape the villages
Plunder and steal the land
It's murder in the name of Mammon
The supply will never meet demand

So bow to the red and yellow
Pray to your Texaco stars
Let the market forces conquer
So more of us can drive our cars

The native people chose a leader
Seeking to negotiate
Sarowiwa died for freedom
Executed by the state

Called a traitor, jailed for treason
By a bought-out government
No public trial, no written record
Dollar signs
Are all they read

While pillagers rape the villages
Plunder and steal their land
Killing in the name of profit
The supply will never meet demand

So welcome the red and yellow
Hail to your Texaco stars
Let the market forces conquer
So we can keep our fancy cars

I say a prayer for Sarowiwa
On the highway while I drive
Though I'm running close to empty
I cannot even stop to cry

I hope the Heavens will forgive me
I count the stations passing by
Knowing every tank I use
Is fueling global genocide

The pillage and rape of villages
The plunder of Ogoniland
Murder in the name of Mammon
The supply will never meet demand

So worship the red and yellow
Pray to your Texaco stars
Let the market forces conquer
Foreign lands by starting wars

Let the market forces conquer
Foreign lands by starting wars

Answer 3

i did no longer even understand that this grow to be out yet i'm so used to Lennon and Beatles covers that i do no longer pay interest to them. each now after which you will hear a good one yet no longer often. particular I do agree that some thing extra must be carried out in Darfur, I desire the U.S. and Europe might get entangled to help positioned a supply as much as that besides the fact that it form of sounds like polititions only talk approximately it and don't do something approximately it. yet as you mentioned the reason being admirable.