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(Thursday October 11 at 9pm on CBC-TV)
DARFUR: ON OUR WATCH
A word that has come to mean violence and terror, rape and murder. A killing field that splashes across our headlines. Yet the world stands by as the first genocide of the 21st century unfolds. Now, one of the largest citizen movements in decades is trying to make a difference.
Celebrities are stepping into the void left by the world’s leaders. The American movie star, Mia Farrow lives on “Darfur time” in a desparate race against evil. CBC and PBS Frontline travel with her to the refugee camps that are hell’s waiting room as Farrow struggles to comfort the afflicted and alert the world to their pain.
Discuss this film and watch an excerpt online.
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October 16, 2007 at 3:34 pm |
This documentary was distressing to watch but essential to see.. I praise those who are working and speaking out to bring our priorities back in to an order that makes sense.That is ,human life should be valued more that doing “what is deemed politically correct”.
Vocal Americans are rising to a new level in my eyes! Thankyou.
October 17, 2007 at 12:09 am |
OK, now for the $64,000.00 question; why should we even THINK about “doing something” about the genocide, rape, murder and all of the other ills in Darfur, when every Liberal in the world is literally screaming at us for going into Iraq and stopping the very same thing? I mean, granted, that wasn’t the “mission”, but it was one of the many GOOD things that came out of kicking Saddam to the curb, or has everyone forgotten about the “rape rooms” and “ethnic cleansing” that was going on in Iraq before March of ‘03?
October 19, 2007 at 2:21 pm |
Reply to str8shooter’s comments -
Iraq was a tougher war, the challenges of which the Bush administration failed to foresee. If we are to take satisfaction in bringing democracy to Iraq and ending dictatorship, then it is legitimate to ask why Iraq and not Africa? Iraq and Iran require a sophisticated understanding of military requirements, whereas Uganda and Darfur problems could have been solved with a fraction of the resources that USA has poured into Iraq. We are now talking of pulling out of Iraq and leaving citizens at the mercy of lawlessness. They have lost their homes, jobs and are living a dismal existence trying to seek refuge in adjoining Syria/Jordan. There have been testimonies of several Iraqui girsl in Jordan who have had to resort to bar-dancing to make ends meet for their family. It is different to comment from outside than actually live the terror – much like Senator Mcain having to swallow his words on ‘walking safely on the streets of Baghdad’ .
The problem in Africa will persist because of the flawed structure of the UN. Why should a few countries sit together, cast vetoes and decide the fate of Africa? Why can’t we challenge China on the vote it casts in favor of Sudanese govt. USA entered Iraq unilaterally without seeking security council vote? Why can’t military operations begin in Sudan unilaterally with or without China’s consent?
October 21, 2007 at 1:18 pm |
Chitra,
Firstly, the War in Iraq wasn’t hard at all, and in fact was incredibly easy, especially when compared to previous War. Don’t you remember Operation “Last One To Baghdad Is A Rotten Egg”? We took Iraq in 23 DAYS! Now, securing the PEACE has been another question altogether. The issues in Iraq are older than the actual nation of Iraq, and are more complicated than astrophysics, all we can do is give them the opportunity to develop their government, military and Police to the point where they can take care of themselves and we can leave. The only oversights in Iraq came from a severe lack of understanding how stupid those ‘people’ are. The sectarian differences and their incredible STUPIDITY in refusing to put their petty differences aside long enough to rebuild their country are the sticking point in Iraq, and frankly, IMHO, if they don’t pull their heads out of their butts SOON, I’m ready to pull the troops back to the borders and secure the oil fields, let them kill each other off, and tell whoever’s left what they WILL do, how they WILL do it, and if they get stupid too, we’ll kill them until someone develops a BRAIN.
Girls dancing on bars? WOW, who’dvethunkit? Like THAT’S never happened in the history of the world before we went into Iraq (that’s EXTREME sarcasm in case you missed it). Women have resorted to using their bodies to get what they want since EVE, which is why prostitution is known as the “worlds oldest profession”, so don’t act all indignant because it’s happening over there now, after all, that’s where it STARTED! Acting surprised about that is as silly as feigning surprise at finding blood in a hospital.
As to some alleged necessity to garner UN ‘approval’ for the invasion of Iraq in ‘03, we already had it! In case you forgot, Saddam violated his terms of surrender from the ‘91 Gulf War, he consistantly engaged our aircraft patrolling the “No Fly Zones”, refused to cooperate with the UN weapons inspectors, and continued to violate the rest of the UN mandates. Simply put, we didn’t NEED anyones ‘permission’. Also, why do people keep repeating the LIE about some mythical “unilateral” invasion of Iraq? In case you missed it, Great Britain, Poland, Australia, South Korea, Romania, El Salvador, Czech Republic, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Denmark, Mongolia, Albania, Armenia, Boznia and Herzogovina, Estonia, Macedonia, Kazakhstan, Moldovia, and Bulgaria ALL have troops ON THE GROUND with the US in Iraq, and that’s not counting the 20 other countries that had deployed troops to Iraq and have since withdrawn them.
Your assertion that the problems in Uganda and Darfur could be solved easily is the same mistake in logic that Bill Clinton made with his assumptions about Somalia! You DO NOT send Soldiers into the field thinking it’s going to be easy, EVER. I’m so incredibly tired of people who’ve never been in the military, who have no respect for the military, and who won’t listen to the military, try to solve their non-essential political problems by throwing the military at it. You want to know the real reason that most everyone is only giving lip service to Darfur? Simple, they don’t have ANYTHING to do with OUR national security so they don’t matter.
Here’s an idea for you, since Canada couldn’t be bothered to help us out in Iraq because y’all didn’t like the ‘mission’, why don’t y’all go take care of Darfur, because I don’t give a DAMN about that mission. The only ‘problem’ with Africa is Africans. If they’re too damned stupid to even TRY to fix their own problems, I don’t have anything for them.