Never Again is Again: Stand Up Against Genocide in Africa

We are not suggesting that Darfur is another Rwanda. We don’t have a situation where, as in Rwanda, 8,000+ people are being killed every day over a period of 100 days. There is less systematic cohesion in Darfur, but the conflict has been going on for over four years now. Additionally, according to Stephen Brown of the University of Ottawa, many people are dying from lack of food and water. This proves to be cyclical, for what options are left to a starving and displaced population, other than taking up arms?

What IS the same is that while many feel that something very wrong is happening in Darfur, like Rwanda, the international community is being caught up in a web of semantics and apathy, and is standing by as the number of innocent victims increases every day. This is another chance to follow through on international conventions in the face of humanitarian crisis, and nothing is being done.

- sara