What can we do about the current genocide in Darfur?

Question

Right now, this very second, a genocide is happening in Darfur, which is located in Sudan.
A genocide is a mass extermination of a group of people because of race, religion, etc.
What surprises me is that the U.S. isn't doing anything publically about this situation. How often have you seen this case on the news? Not much, I can tell you that.
I'd like to hear views from Yahoo! Answers users and what YOU think we can do to make the difference.

As jas said, a great website for ideas on how you can help is savedarfur.org

Answer 1

everyone's answer was horrible. When it comes to Africa we dont care (mainly cuz they're black) .... Rwanda? BUT if, say, a European country went into (another) genocide we'd be there in a flash. So yes there is something we can do. Idk what though but ignoring a situation only makes it worse.

Answer 2

Why are you blaming the US?? Why doesn't some other country stick their neck out, and bring it to the UN. The UN is the God All Mighty establishment that is supposed to handle this kind of thing. Why isn't France, Germany, England, Russia, Spain, Italy, or any other country bringing it up at the UN Why aren't they worried about it, or willing to send their troops?? Why isn't Iran, North Korea, Syria, Libya, Gordon, Oman, Belgium, Switzerland, or any other African countries loading plans & trucks and heading for the Sudan?

I know the Answer!..Because We are the Only country that gives a Damn! We are the only ones that will pay for it, and maybe send our young men and women who could get their butts blown off, keeping someone eles's peace. Don't worry if anyone goes and helps it will be the USA!
The UN has gotten so big, so political, it's become worthless.
Without the USA, the UN would be just a building in NY City.

Answer 3

i be attentive to relating to the Janjiweed in Sudan and that i be attentive to it particularly is an identical element we are scuffling with in Iraq and Afghanistan, which makes it seem very unusual to me that Democrats are those crying for us to pass into Darfur. If everyone interior the international needs to guard it, enable them to step as much as the plate. the u . s . a . is busy with radical lslam already. And particular, Sudan does have oil.

Answer 4

With the lack of good answers here, I'm going to copy and paste a story from Canadian Press, a news service similar to AP in the US. The article is about Romeo Dallaire, the man who commanded UN troops in Rwanda.
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Dallaire pleads for action on Darfur

By BETH GORHAM

WASHINGTON (CP) - Retired Canadian general Romeo Dallaire blasted the U.S. and Canada on Monday for failing to rally the world and provide the political will to save people in Darfur.

The reason so many people have been allowed to die in Sudan already, Dallaire told a Senate subcommittee, is simple. "There's no self-interest. Who cares about Darfurians? They're sub-Saharan Africans. They're like Rwandans."

"(It's) the fear of casualties in a country that doesn't count in an area that doesn't count," he said.

"Not one of us is more human than the other . . . Why did the Yugoslavians count when we poured in tens of thousands of troops and billions of dollars? Why do others count and why do these Africans in Darfur not count?"

Dallaire also said it's not up to the United States to send troops to end the genocide in Sudan.

"Why do you always want to set yourselves up?" asked Dallaire, who led the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Rwanda in 1994.

"Why should you necessarily have to commit all those capabilities? Why can't the Chinese provide (soldiers)? They've got them."

Dallaire, who pleaded unsuccessfully for 5,000 UN troops to stop the Rwandan genocide that killed some 700,000 people, was hailed by Senator Dick Durbin as a "hero."

"If more people had listened to him, maybe things could have been different in Rwanda. I hope people listen to him now."

Durbin, a Democrat, chairs a new Senate subcommittee on human rights, a first for the country.

While U.S. President George W. Bush was quick to call the Darfur violence genocide, little has been done to quell it.

The United Nations says more than 200,000 people have been killed and 2.5 million driven from their homes in four years of fighting, rape and plunder.

Durbin introduced legislation Monday authorizing state and local governments to divest funds from businesses working in Sudan.

He noted that Bill Clinton has said his inaction on Rwanda was the worst foreign policy mistake of his presidency.

"Now that we have acknowledged for more than four years that this horror is happening on our watch, we must summon the courage and act to stop this carnage."

Dallaire, who was appointed to the Canadian senate in 2005, said there's a lot of untapped means to intervene in Sudan, where the government has refused to allow reinforcements for African Union soldiers.

State sovereignty isn't an unalienable right, he said, pointing to NATO's 1999 campaign to stop ethnic cleansing in Kosovo.

And the UN has passed a Canada-backed resolution on the responsibility of other nations to protect during times of such crisis. Now, he said, it needs teeth.

The U.S. should "squeeze" other members of Group of Eight countries at the upcoming annual meeting to provide soldiers, he said.

Dallaire was joined at the hearing by Don Cheadle, an actor who portrayed a Rawandan businessman in Hotel Rwanda who saved more than 1,200 people during the 100 days of slaughter.

He agreed with Dallaire that U.S. soldiers shouldn't go to Darfur, saying there are others who have key interests in Sudan, like Egypt and China.

"Other countries could provide the troops if the political will is there," he said.

"We are all bark and no bite."

The UN and others accuse Sudan's government of countering local rebel groups by unleashing militias of Arab nomads known as janjaweed to commit atrocities against farmers from the region's ethnic African tribes.
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Rick, while I do give credit to the White House for declaring it to be a genocide, I really do wish the US would rally the rest of the world to Darfur's cause. They have the influence, yet they haven't said much lately. The US is tied up elsewhere, but it can get other countries on board with Darfur. The US does play a major role in the UN, and it's time both the US and Canada do something to draw attention to Darfur's plight. In terms of military might, both these countries can't do much. On the diplomatic front, however, progress can be achieved.

Answer 5

for thoes of you who are unaware of this fabulous website i suggest yout tke a loog savedarfur.org

Answer 6

Take care of the problems in your own back yard.

Answer 7

nothing. it's not america's affair.

Answer 8

close our eyes to it.