| Sunday, March 1, 2009 |
| The Genocide in Darfur |
It would seem, just going by standard morality, that genocide should be stopped immediately when it arises. And yet, inexplicably, there has been an extermination of an entire race of people in Darfur for six years now. Since February 2003, as many as 500,000 people have been killed. Myriad women and young girls have been raped. People’s homes and villages have been razed and burned. More than two and a half million have been displaced from their homes, and forced to move into repulsive refugee camps. These camps are sickeningly overpopulated, insufficiently supplied, and disease-ridden. What is the world’s response? It labels this catastrophe a “humanitarian crisis,” and turns its thoughts elsewhere.
How can Catholics; how can anyone, stand idly by and let this continue? Why has there been no worldwide movement to end this? Where is the Christian compassion? It cannot be that people just do not care, that is too depressing a view of humanity. It must be a lack of general awareness. Popular knowledge of this genocide must be raised.
This crisis must infiltrate people’s main channels of information. News channels need to report on the genocide. Radio advertisements need to beg for action. For once the population is made to be aware of the calamity, there is no way that they will allow it to continue. The people must come together in a united effort to stop the genocide. The governments of the world must be spurned into action by the people’s outrage at the inaction. No more can leaders simply dismiss the crisis as “a terrible, terrible tragedy that must stop,” and then leave it at that, with no active strategy to end it.
Let this day mark the end of the world’s indifference. Let the people rise in anger and disgust at our former inactivity. Let us march to the steps of our capital and demand an end to this travesty. How can any other problem come before this one? No crisis can possibly outweigh the mass murder of half a million people.
And now, with Christ as our example of unconditional compassion, we go to quell the fountain of blood that overflows in Sudan. |
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