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Mia Farrow Launches Fund for Darfur


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Actress Mia Farrow launched a fund to support survivors of the fighting in Sudan's Darfur region Sunday, and said that the jailing of a British teacher in the African nation showed the cruelty of its leadership.

"This is the first genocide of the 21st century and the one genocide that is ongoing as we speak," said Farrow, a goodwill ambassador for UNICEF who has visited Darfur seven times since 2004. "We have a regime that launched a military campaign on an unarmed population for no other reason than that they are not Arab."
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3 responses // Mia Farrow Launches Fund for Darfur

  • http://current.com/items/76350542_darfur_rising
    Check out this pod:

    "Children fleeing the genocide in Darfur describe the atrocities they have witnessed in their homeland. They remember their parents and siblings slaughtered in front of their eyes. They see pregnant mothers cut open and fetuses thrown into fire.

    Incredibly, the children also contemplate a possible reason for the genocide - that many of their attackers have never been to school."
    Swiyyah
  • It still confuses/angers me that I see so little of this crisis being covered in mainstream media - if it is even mentioned at all.

    I guess the UN was just farting through its mouth when it said "Never again."
    Humdrum
  • http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/7125209.stm
    I think that this situation could certainly use more press, although I think it gets more over here in the UK than it does in America. That said, it looks like things are just getting worse:

    "After four years' violence that has left 200,000 dead and forced nearly two-and-a-half million people to flee their homes, you might have thought things could not get any worse in Darfur. Yet they have.

    A proliferation in the number of armed militia groups has led to a new wave of violence that is hitting the millions inside the region's refugee camps, as well as those who try to help them.
    ...
    If aid organisations like Oxfam were forced to pull out of Darfur, the consequences for the four million people who rely on such agencies to survive would be unthinkable.

    Yet with 75% of the region's roads now too dangerous for them to use, that possibility grows by the day."
    abbym0308

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