Sudan's cruel and slow starvation

[gottaB]

By Hilary Andersson
BBC correspondent in Darfur

I'm sitting in the dark on the edge of a camp for displaced people in Darfur. I can hear the loud, persistent crying of one child rising above the murmur of the camp as the people settle down for the night.

Tonight the stars are out - that means no rain. Last night was not like this at all.

You can see it coming in the afternoons. The sky begins to darken and the horizon goes an ominous, brown shade of yellow.

Then the wind starts and the dust of the Sahara desert whips up, blasting whirling sands in all directions. The people start to run in their long rags, heads bowed against the wind.

Sudan's cruel and slow starvation....

[asjr]

1. This situation is killing me. Are Americans allowed to go into

the region. If I could I would take 3 shiploads of food for these poor people.

[gottaB]

2. Doctors without Borders is seeking volunteers

You don't have to be a doctor.

I have compiled some links to relief agencies here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=106x8499

[asjr]

6. Thanks, I will defintely look into it. I am alone

and have medical problems, but I can't stand it anymore. Something must be done.

[gottaB]

8. I am sure you are cognizant of the dangers involved

or soon will be.

Sudan Aid Delivery a "Risky Business"

[GHOSTDANCER]

5. We are too scared to go.... Remember the Black Hawks?

O and we can't send food to Sudan they don't have Nukes!!!! :crazy:

U.S. Pledges 50,000 Tons of Food to North Korea
<http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=5762021>

[OneBlueSky]

3. sometimes you just don't know what to say . . .

all I can think of is the vast sums we've pissed away in Iraq, and how that money could have been used to save lives rather than destroy them . . . there must be a special place in hell for those who make war while ignoring the suffering of their fellow humans . . .

[shanti]

7. *ush will do NOTHING

for people of color. hasn't that been obvious? and i do agree about the "special place in hell".

[wtmusic]

4. How many Sudanese lives would the $90B we've wasted in Iraq have saved?

Ask a Republican.