Tuesday, December 11, 2007

Darfur Now (PG) *** | 'Orphans' of Darfur tell gripping tales of terror

Posted on Fri, Dec. 07, 2007

BY CONNIE OGLE
cogle@MiamiHerald.com

They have lost children and spouses, relatives and friends, their homes and their land, and in this sobering and moving documentary the displaced people of Darfur get a chance to tell their stories.

''We are orphans,'' one emotional boy says. ``We don't have fathers. We don't have brothers. They killed our mothers.''

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------> I am puzzled as to why the situation in Darfur hasn't been a higher priority in our country? We intervened in Bosnia, Kosovo, Iraq, and the list goes on, but why not Darfur? I am afraid that somehow race plays into the lack of the urgency by the West. This burdens me, and is very disappointing.

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