Archive for March 2008
LOST IN THE SAHEL
National Geographic’s “LOST IN THE SAHEL” by two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning foreign correspondent Paul Salopek who was literally lost when he was captured and imprisoned in Darfur for five weeks in 2006 while reporting for National Geographic. The article recounts his capture and offers an intimate look at an area that is home to 50 million of the world’s poorest people afflicted by years of war, corruption and poverty.
Editor in Chief Chris Johns also writes about working to free Salopek, his driver and his interpreter-guide from the Sudanese jail.
I meant to post this earlier. The whole issue is pretty spectacular, get a copy if you can.
Ain’t That a Shame.
United Nation News on Darfur.
It’s like we told you, the death toll is somewhere around more than 200,000, maybe close to 400,000 dead, but we really don’t have the time and resources to count. Besides that the tyrannical government of Sudan, the one that has been running the whole genocide for years now, doesn’t want us to count and won’t let us in, so we will continue to do what we’ve done successfully for the last four years, basically kiss Khartoum’s ass. When they tell us it’s nowhere near 200,000 dead, even if all indications are it is much more than 200,000 – like much closer to 400,000 dead, we will agree and go no further. We can’t even protect the humanitarian aid workers on the ground , or figure out who is a refugee and who is a rebel any more . What do you really want us to do? We’re just doing our job.
Eric Reeves believes the death toll could be closer to 500,00 , Prendergast, at the Enough Project estimates 400,000, though it’s hard to tell lately between all violence, disease and starvation says Allyn Brooks-LaSure, spokesman for the Save Darfur Coalition.
Over four years later, here we are not even able to get in to the area to count the bodies.
Ain’t that a shame.
Death toll of 200,000 disputed in Darfur
The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo
The Greastest Silence: Rape in the Congo premieres on HBO in April.
Today, in the war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo, a crime against humanity is taking place on an unimaginable scale – hundreds of thousands of women and girls have been raped in the last ten years. Often carried out with impunity by gangs of armed militia, these atrocities leave survivors traumatized, shunned by society and family, and suffering lifelong health effects such as HIV. Their trials unacknowledged, the victims are shamed and invisible. As a result, the world is largely ignorant of their horrific plight and the political conditions that make it possible.
Winner of a Special Jury Prize at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, THE GREATEST SILENCE: RAPE IN THE CONGO follows director Lisa F. Jackson’s crusade to expose this shocking reality when it debuts TUESDAY, APRIL 8 (10:00-11:15 p.m. ET/PT), exclusively on HBO. On April 1, one week before the film’s debut, Jackson will testify before the U.S. Senate’s Subcommittee Hearing on Human Rights and the Law.
HBO Schedule for The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo
SBS Radio Interveiw with a Journalist David Brill.
As a follow-up via Dateline, and SBS radio, World View The Many Voices of one Australia.
Desperate in Darfur: A Journalist’s Notes.
From Australia, Cinematographer & Video Journalist David Brill brings us his – eight months in the making – experience in Darfur.
David Brill image, via SBS corporation.
Check out his video Blogs as well.
The Unrest in Darfur
Security in Sudan.
The People of Darfur.
