Genocide, Sudan and the blogosphere

Ethan’s attempt of using Blogs to Hack the Media is about increasing attention to news from the developing world:
“Blogs let us tell offline media what we want. When blog readers made it clear we wanted to know more about Trent Lott’s racist comments, mainstream media picked up the ball and dug deeper into the story. What would happen if we started sending an unambiguous message that we wanted to hear lots more about Africa, Central Asia, Eastern Europe, Central America? What sort of effort would it take to choose an important issue – say the Sudanese government’s involvement in Darfur – and get enough momentum in the blogosphere that CNN was forced to bring a camera crew to the region?”

In Sudan, just as you are reading this, a genocide could be happening.
In the 10-year anniversary of the Rwandan genocide,
the op-ed columnist Kristof asks on NY Times Will We Say ‘Never Again’ Yet Again?
“Yet right now, the government of Sudan is engaging in genocide against three large African tribes in its Darfur region here. Yet right now, the government of Sudan is engaging in genocide against three large African tribes in its Darfur region here. Some 1,000 people are being killed a week, tribeswomen are being systematically raped, 700,000 people have been driven from their homes, and Sudan’s Army is even bombing the survivors.
And the world yawns.
(…) The convention against genocide not only authorizes but also obligates the nations ratifying it to stand up to genocide.”

So in this case the goal is clear: Use your blog to tell mainstream media that you want news coverage of this possible genocide.

5 thoughts on “Genocide, Sudan and the blogosphere”

  2. paolo

    I created a new entry about this site but I hope you wronlgy write Somalia in the previous comment, while it is Sudan the country where a genocide is happening.

  3. Jim Dunlap

    I have a website dedicated to the victims of genocide, wherever it rears its ugly head. I have poems from writers all across the world decrying the situation in Africa and central Europe now, and am requesting that you come sign the guestbook and forward the url on anyone you know who might want to help stop the carange.

    http://www.voicesforAfrica.homestead.com/index.html

    Thanks,

    Jim Dunlap, webmaster
    Voices for Africa

  4. Jim Dunlap

    Since it appeas that you are familiar with the devastation wrought by genocide in Darfur, Western Sudan, where outlaw Islamic militias are raping and killing Nubian Christians, in Nigeria, where the Christians and Moslems are killing each other, and in Kosovo in central Europe, where Moslems are killing Serbian Christians. It’s a series of atrocities spread across Europe and Africa, and I have a website dedicated to the victims:

    http://www.voicesforAfrica.homestead.com/index.html

    I am requesting the you send a poem for the webpages, sign the guestbook, send the url on to anyone you know who might wish to help stop the carnage, or all of the above.

    Thanks for your time and consideration,

    Jim Dunlap, webmaster
    Voices for Africa

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