Message from Save Darfur today:

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June marks five years since Save Darfur was founded. For five years, we’ve worked with advocates like you to raise awareness and to pressure the U.S. Government to work to end the conflict in Darfur. Together, we’ve made a lot of progress. But there’s still much to do.

We’ve set a goal to raise $5,000 by July 15, and we’re over half-way there. You can help by donating your June or July Birthday to Save Darfur. Create your Birthday Wish ( http://www.causes.com/savedarfur/birthdays?m=94c56aca ) today.

Your contributions will help us continue to pressure President Obama to lead for peace in Sudan. Plus, all of your friends will know that you care about the situation in Darfur and can help you reach your Birthday Goal.

P.S. If you don’t have a June or July Birthday, you can still make a contribution to Save Darfur. All contributions, no matter how large or small, help us continue to pressure the U.S. Government to act.
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 Five years to stop neighbors from literally slaughtering each other.  That sentence is mind blowing and mentally staggering to me, not to mention soul-sucking!  

As global citizens, it is imperative to recognize and understand that genocide continues to occur in the twenty-first century. To fully understand what this means, it is important to become educated on the frightening scope of genocide and its implications. One can not just simply learn that millions of Jews were killed during World War II. Rather, we need to know that during the Holocaust, specific minority groups were intentionally targeted to be destroyed due to ethnic hatred.

In 'A Problem from Hell': America and the Age of Genocide, Samantha Power highlights five past genocides:

Armenia: More than 1,000,000 deaths (1915–1917)

The Holocaust: 6,000,000 deaths of Jews; 5,000,000 deaths of Poles, Roma, communists and other "undesirables" (1938–1945)

Cambodia: 2,000,000 deaths (1975–1978)

Bosnia: 200,000 deaths (1992–1995)

Rwanda: 800,000 deaths (April 6 through mid-July of 1994)

Darfur: Hundreds of thousands of deaths (2003 through today)*

^{* As "A Problem from Hell: American and the Age of Genocide" was written in 2003, it does not include Darfur.}

Hundreds of thousands of deaths in Darfur and still the slaughter goes on.  This is why you will hear more on this subject from me in the future and on other hotspots as well.  I am only one person, but I have a mouth and two feet to stand on and two ears to listen for the day the slaughter ends.