The news media's silence, particularly television news, is reprehensible. If we knew as much about Darfur as we do about Michael Jackson, we might be able to stop these things from continuing.
From Nicholas D. Kristof
Just a little help, a small security force, a bit of food, can save lives.
The conflict in Darfur could escalate to where we're seeing 100,000 victims per month.
You will be judged in years to come by how you responded to genocide on your watch.
Most of the villagers were hiding in the bush, where they were dying from bad water, malaria and malnutrition.
Every year 3.1 million Indian children die before the age of 5, mostly from diseases of poverty like diarrhea.
One of the things that really got to me was talking to parents who had been burned out of their villages, had family members killed, and then when men showed up at the wells to get water, they were shot.
All of a sudden their husband's dead and maybe a child is dead and they have absolutely nothing - and they're heading through the desert at night.
There seems to be this sense among even well-meaning Americans that Africa is this black hole of murder and mutilation that can never be fixed, no matter what aid is brought in.
A little bit of attention can go a long way.
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