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Darfur: When Assault Becomes A Case For Genocide

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Raspberry Swirly
11/13/08

In reply to Darfur: When Assault Becomes A Case For Genocide
I honestly can't imagine living through this. My heart goes out to these women and I sincerely hope that those responsible will be made to answer for their crimes.
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ALittleBitGothic
11/13/08

In reply to Darfur: When Assault Becomes A Case For Genocide
The long arm of the law is getting longer with every passing year. Bashir's day might come. I remember when Radovan Karadzic was captured and sent to the Hague this past summer. I know people in Bosnia who had ruled that possibility out, and figured the SOB would never see the inside of courtroom. Yet, there he is, at long last. Sometimes, history suprises you in a good way.
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Vivien Smith-Smythe-Smith
11/13/08

@ALittleBitGothic: Or that time America went into Iraq and they managed to come across Hussein?

I prefer the Simon Wiesenthal school of thought 'justice, not vengeance', even if he does scare me a wee bit.
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Hamsterpants
11/13/08

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Not to mention that AIDS is a very real possible "side effect" of rape in Africa. If that isn't murder I do not know what is.
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tailfeather
11/13/08

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What women in other parts of the world go through is absolutely unfathomable to me. I have no context for this kind of thing. I imagine those women in the center of the picture are looking at me and I wonder, what do I do, what can I possibly DO?
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SydneyGal
11/13/08

@tailfeather: Indeed. Is there some kind of international organisation of women we can join that will lobby for these things? I sponsor a girl in Zambia, which hopefully will help protect her and her community from this appalling situation, but what about an international organisation that lobbies on women's issues? I don't even know of one in Australia.
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ALittleBitGothic
11/13/08

@SydneyGal: Donate to MSF (Docotors Without Borders.) They do tremendous good, under the worst conditions imaginable.

[www.msf.org]
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Kivrin
11/13/08

@ALittleBitGothic: Thank you for that suggestion. It helps me feel a little less...helpless! Good to know that I can do something.
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Gingerlime
11/13/08

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It should be a case for genocide, and the sentence should be death. So says Empress Gingerlime.
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Vivien Smith-Smythe-Smith
11/13/08

@Gingerlime: I'm sure that in a country as war torn as Sudan, the threat of death is going to be any more of a successful deterrent than it is already in the United States. I understand the anger and frustration behind such comments, but they truly aren't constructive.
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