Tragedy in Africa

I was reading another blog about the story of Darfur and that many Christian leaders have tried to bring this tragedy to the light of people in America. Here is the story.

What really breaks my heart is the lack of concern for the most part among those who should care the most. Some estimates have 200,000 people dead while others believe it is closer to 400,000 people. Another 2.5 million have been displaced because of government repression. The Sudan government not only allows a group of Muslim nomads to do whatever they want in villages to people in the northern part of Sudan but also the government gives them support to do it.

These Militia called Janjaweed, which means "devils of horseback" rape the women, kill the men and take the livestock of these villagers. The reason? The Darfur people are black non-Muslim and the janjaweed and the government of Sudan are Arab and Muslim.

If the devastation keeps going the death toll could pass the 500,000 that were killed in the genocide in Rwanda in 1994. If you want to see what happened there a good movie is "Hotel Rwanda."

Why should Christians care? Because these are people!!! These are creations of God that cannot protect themselves and we need to do everything within our power to help keep things like this from ever happening to people.

One of the problems cited in the article with the US interfering is that the Sudan government and the Janjaweed could raise up Islamic extremeist to come there and defeat the evil West.

If you would like to help make a call to your Congressman, Senator or the Presidents office. There is an email you can send to President Bush and Kofi Annan at the UN at the Save Darfu website.