Thursday, June 09, 2005

Why?

1.5 million Armenians. 3 million Ukrainians. 6 million Jews. 250,000 Gypsies. 6 million Slavs.
25 million Russians. 25 million Chinese. 1 million Ibos. 1.5 million Bengalis. 200,000 Guatemalans. 1.7 million Cambodians. 500,000 Indonesians. 200,000 East Timorese. 250,000 Burundians. 500,000 Ugandans. 2 million Sudanese. 800,000 Rwandans. 2 million North Koreans. 10,000 Kosovars. Genocides and other mass murders killed more people in the twentieth century than all the wars combined.

"Never again" has turned into "Again and again." Again and again, the response to genocide has been too little and too late.
Genocide Watch (above quote from this website)

I know I said I wouldn't get into boring political conversations...but I just wanted to share how sad I am after watching Hotel Rwanda. How could a country like ours, as well as others, who pride themselves on helping those less fortunate continue to allow this to happen today!

One of those movies that is so hard to watch, but you know deep down in side you must watch, and hope it changes you. But man, it made me want to go crawl into bed with my children and hold them tight.

The above picture was taken in Uganda at New Hope orphanage. Many of the children watched their parents murdered right in front of their eyes, many others were orphaned when their parents died of AIDS.

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