Darfur

In our english class we have been working on a project. Something about genocide. For those dictionary people this is for you
(according to dictionary.com)

Genocide-noun- the deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, racial, political, or cultural group.

There is a region in Sudan called Darfur. There is an ongoing war going on there right now, at this very moment. This conflict started when two rebel groups felt they were being rejected by the government. In February of 2003, they started launching attacks. People, human beings, are being murdered. The casualty of this is more than 300,000 people dead, and more than 2.5 million people displaced.

What are we doing about this? really...not much.

As you may recall the recent "swine flu" incident. A very small number of people died from this, and 1.5 billion dollars was spent. Thats $1,500,000,000.
On the other hand, some 300,000 people have died in Darfur, and nothing done to stop this.

My good buddy(or not) Jon Foreman of Switchfoot, has been on a fast and is the reason i am posting this. Try to get some awareness of what is going on in the other side of the world.

Here is an interview of him. Its kinda long though, sorry.

Jon Foreman Fast for Darfur Interview from CJ Casciotta on Vimeo.

I pray that America gets its act together, and starts helping the people who are really in need.