Reading the Comments
March 11, 2008
After the International Darfur day, we ended with 677 comments total. I thought the comment number was an incredible amount, it was nothing I ever expected. Looking at the comments I thought that everyone did an excellent job on writing well thought out paragraphs. One of my favorite comments was by Leah B.. This one is my favorite because I agree on their concerns regarding the troops and our global responsibility. Many other people wrote one that I found very interesting and because of that it made the International Darfur day very successful. The amount of comments we got will raise awareness and make a difference for the life of the people in Darfur.
Many Voices Comments
March 6, 2008
It is our global responsibility to prevent Genocide in
Darfur, Sudan. This has been the longest genocide of the twenty-first century, and has been going on since 2003. But it is our responsibility to watch over our fellow countries, which is called Global Responsibility. Today
Darfur is in ruins, towns are destroyed, markets are burned, many civilians are dead or close to death, but it could have been stopped and still can be.
The persecutors, called the janjaweed, are the cause of the thousand of deaths. We need to stop the janjaweed from going around the villages and killing the men, raping the women and most importantly taking the innocence of our youth. Janjaweed are responsible for over 200,000 killings in Darfur, and forcing 45,000 people to flee to
Chad, the neighboring country. The people of
Darfur need our help, and it is our responsibility to help them. We have already started doing our job by creating blogs and researching websites, all to help raise awareness about the situation in
Darfur. The most effective thing we did at our school is sell green wristband, labeled “Save Darfur” and “Not on our watch.” The money we raised was sent to help the people of
Darfur. Also we write blogs on our websites about current updates on
Darfur. The amount of readers that blogs get will increase each week and raise more awareness. The Awareness about the Genocide happening in
Darfur will increase, and as a result people will start taking action. Raising awareness will help us to get to our main goal.
Our main goal is to pressure the rebel groups to cease all attacks on the people of
Darfur, and hopefully come to an effective solution for them. Most importantly, we should ensure that the United Nations and African Union mission have the tools that they need to stop the Genocide in
Darfur. It’s important to remember that preventing Genocide is our global responsibility; we have to keep the world at peace and make that our most significant commitment. We cannot allow this to happen, so we must do all that we can to help stop the Genocide in
Darfur.
