Genocide

Have you heard of Hotel Rwanda? I just recently heard of it and then watched it tonight. It's a powerful true story of a hotel manager who helped over 1200 people survive the genocide in Rwanda that in 1994 left one million dead in only 100 days. It is humbling to realize how little I knew about this horrific tragedy. I am coming to believe more and more, we need to be made aware of such atrocities so that as a whole we can prevent them from happening in the future.

With that said, today such a tragedy is again happening in Africa, and many of us know very little about it. Genocide is happening in Darfur, a region of Sudan. At www.savedarfur.org it says "Not since the Rwanda genocide of 1994 has the world seen such a calculated campaign of slaughter, rape, starvation and displacement. It is estimated that at least 250,000 people have died. More than 2 million people have been displaced from their homes and over 200,000 have fled across the border to Chad." I encourage you to visit the site, step out of your world, learn more about these people, and perhaps even take action.