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I've been doing some surfing and I have some more info. I'll add some helpful websites at the bottom of this post, and I'll also include an email I sent around. I sent this to all the news programs I could find. I'll attatch their email addresses or web forms so you can submit something to ask them to cover this story! It'd be so good if everyone submitted something to these guys to show them that we care! To show them that we want to know what's going on in our world. Send this on to as many people as you can and if we all start telling the news that we want to hear about it, maybe the story of the people from the Darfur region will be told!


The email I sent:

To whom it may concern,

Right now a campaign of rape, slaughter and displacement is currently being carried out in the western region of Sudan, the largest country in Africa. Government-supported troops have displaced 2.5 million people in the past two years, hundreds of thousands have died due to attacks, disease and starvation, and it is estimated that 500 men, women and children continue to die every day.

We must put pressure on our national leaders to take immediate action. President Bush and the United States Congress have recognized the situation in Darfur as "genocide," but it will take much more than words to end the violence and suffering in Darfur. In fact this recognition imposes a legal obligation, let alone the inherent moral obligation, upon governments to take action to stop the genocide. If our leaders made Darfur a priority, hundreds of thousands of lives could be saved.

We don't do anything because we don't know anything. I am writing to you to beg you to look into this situation. We need media coverage to educate our citizens about this situation. We need to care and get our goverment to see that we care so that action can be taken to help these people escape their situation.

This is what Wikipedia has to say about the Darfur conflict:
The Darfur conflict is an ongoing conflict in the Darfur region of western Sudan, mainly between the Janjaweed, a militia group recruited from local Baggara tribes, and the non-Baggara peoples (mostly tribes of small farmers) of the region. The Sudanese government, while publicly denying that it supported the Janjaweed, provided arms and assistance and has participated in joint attacks with the group. The conflict began in February 2003. Estimates of deaths in the conflict have ranged from 50,000 (World Health Organization, September 2004) to 450,000 (Dr. Eric Reeves, 28 April 2006). Most NGOs use 400,000, a figure from the Coalition for International Justice. The conflict has been described by mass media as "ethnic cleansing" and "genocide"; the Bush Administration of the United States and the U.S. Congress have declared it to be genocide, though the United Nations has declined to do so.

President Bush once wrote in the margins of a report on the Rwandan genocide, "Not on my watch.", yet it is happening again! Last time we just sat back and watched, let's not to it again! Please help me in calling for immediate attention to Darfur and more robust action on behalf of governments to support security efforts in the region. Please help get this message out!

Megan Orrin


The places to send this:

onlinenewsproducers@seven.com.au, melbnews@seven.com.au,

todayshow@nine.com.au

today@nine.com.au

60minutes@nine.com.au

Channel 9

ABC news

A Current Affair

Sunrise

Today Tonight


Websites:

Red Cross

Details on the situation

Other resources

Save Darfur

Genocide Intervention


I hope you guys will join me in this! I'd be sad and disappointed if you skim read this beacuse you couldn't be bothered engaging with it. Isn't this important? People's lives are at stake!!!