"Darfur Drawn" - The Conflict in Darfur seen through Children's Eyes

[FrenchieCat]

The art of those children who have experienced a so very different world from our children (or our own) experience.

CNN took a break from the Michael Jackson Trial to report on a segment with Jemera Rone, Human Rights Watch, featured in a piece called "Eyes of the Young-Darfur Drawn" who has an Online Gallery on the drawings of children who have witnessed the murders and rape of family members and neighbors.

Ms. Rone is asking for an International forces to do what the Sudan government refuses to do...protect the lives of those who are being murdered by paramilitaries supported by the Sudanese Government! She hates that it has come to that....but currently the estimates are 300,000 to 400,000 death by this deliberate Genocide. How many more do we need before we deem this an outrage?

Unfortunately, my prediction is that nothing will be done...and so, if nothing else, please support this "art" show....

The Website is http://hrw.org/photos/2005/darfur/drawings/1.htm

Let's give the website some hits and go view the "art" of these traumatized children!

It can only help!

[FrenchieCat]

1. Come on GD folks....

Show a little interest. We are talking about a lot of dead people.

Shouldn't you be outraged....or at least a bit curious.

Kick!

[Selteri]

2. I personally thought the picture of a man in a jeep shooting

a man with an m-16 like weapon in the crotch was particularily stirring.

[FrenchieCat]

4. these pictures tell a story......whether we want to know the story

as it unfolds....or wait till we know the end of the story, is the question.


Taha, Age 13 or 14
“In the afternoon we returned from school and saw the planes. We were all looking, not imagining about bombing. Then they began the bombing. The first bomb in our garden, then four bombs at once in the garden. The bombs killed six people, including a young boy, a boy carried by his mother, and a girl. In another place in the garden a women was carrying her baby son—she was killed, not him. Now my nights are hard because I feel frightened. We became homeless. I cannot forget the bad images of the burning houses and fleeing at night because our village was burned…”

[The Magistrate]

8. A Wrenching Sight, That, Ma'am

[Goblinmonger]

3. The fact that the US is letting happen in the Sudan

what is happening is fucking disgraceful. How dare Cuckoo Bananas justify his invasion of Iraq with the revisionist bullshit that Saddam was a bad man and yet not even think about going to save Darfur?

Oh, I know the real answer. No oil. The US will save the "brown" people if there is oil involved, but there is no chance in hell we are going near the "black" people when there are no resources involved.

Isn't is sad that 13-year-old kids are so aware of the rapes going on in their world and we won't stop it.

[FrenchieCat]

5. That another reason that Liberal should be actively bringing

the Story of Darfur to the forefront. It illustrate the hypocrisis of this current administration perfectly.

The contrast between the one of the justifications given by the administration to invade Iraq (Saddam was brutal dictator who killed his own people) is knocked down by what they are allowing to occur in the Sudan.

We can see that.....but can others?

[FrenchieCat]

6. Kicking for the lunchtime crowd....

Click the link....for the children's sake!

Do I have to beg?

[applegrove]

7. I've seen some of them before. No child should have to face such

monstrosities.

[FrenchieCat]

9. Agreed.....

and it happens in some many places, so often.

The sad part is, these children will remember forever how no one really cared.

[ohio_liberal]

10. It's heartbreaking

And the world sits back and watches.

[FrenchieCat]

13. So many people don't even have an inkling.....

Again, it will be one of those stories you'll hear on PBS one day, a few years from now.....

We'll all be there with kerchief in hands trying to figure out....why no one gave a damn!

[applegrove]

11. Link to today's Darfur Daily News: June 03, 2005 thread:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=3780933#

[Catholic Sensation]

12. this is another rwanda

unbelievable how america is so willfully ignorant of these situations. it shouldn't ever be the case, but i'm expecting bush's state department to be as worthless as clinton's was in dealing with rwanda.