Rocky Mountain Collegian via U-Wire
University Wire
February 27, 2007 Tuesday
Genocides are still happening
FORT COLLINS, Colo.
Four hundred thousand killed. Two million citizens displaced.
Continued bombings of villages occupied by certain groups of people.
These facts may appear to be from past genocides like those seen in
the Holocaust, Rwanda, or Armenia. Unfortunately, these situations
describe a crisis that is currently going on in our world today.
It has become time to once and for all stop the Darfur genocide.
Despite various ceasefire accords and various U.N. resolutions
condemning the situation, no concrete measures have been followed by
the various parties involved. The American government and its Western
allies must step up to the plate and enforce the ceasefire that was
agreed upon less than two months ago and the United Nations and
African Union need to deploy peacekeepers to the region, something
they agreed to do in November.
This is not a red and blue, liberal and conservative issue. According
to DarfurScores.org, a Web site that rates members of Congress on
their views regarding Darfur, Colorado’s two leaders in the fight to
end genocide in Northern Africa, are Rep. Tom Tancredo and Sen. Ken
Salazar. If this issue has brought together two of the most
polar-opposite politicians in our state, why can’t the rest of
Congress use their might to stop this world tragedy?
When we participate in Holocaust Awareness Week for the duration, we
should keep in mind the tragedy that is going on in today’s world.
Then hopefully our kids won’t need to have a Darfur Awareness Week.