UPDATE: If you have come to this article through an e-mail I’ve sent you, please, take note of a mistake I made in its text. The town and area of Srebrenica is in fact in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It was the Serbian army under the command of Radko Mladic who executed the killings. Please, read more about the topic here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srebrenica_massacre.

The more I look at the world around me, the more I become convinced that it’s full of Cains. White, black, yellow, mixed, tall, short, well-educated but also some illiterate, some very active, others rather indifferent… Too bad, however, that God’s voice is not as audible as one might want it to be. It appears far too easy for us to not even hear Him asking “Where is your brother Abel? What have you done?”

The dead have names. The dead have families. The dead have children.

I just recently shared with you about the genocide which is taking place in Darfur and over the (practically nonexistent) border with Chad (click here to read that post). A very important point in the development of the Darfur war is approaching. On March 4, the International Criminal Court is expected to announce whether it will issue an arrest warrant for the Sudanese president Omar Hassan al-Bashir convicting him of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in Darfur (click here to read a news article about this).

After 6 years of ongoing mass killings in Darfur and dreadfully slow and rather crippled actions on behalf of the rest of the world for stopping the genocide, there is potential for a major leap in resolving the conflict. I am pleading with you to pray that the Sudanese president may be convicted for the crimes against people which he has commited and consequentially arrested. Pray also that God may continue to use the voice of people throughout the world who put the conflict in Darfur before the eyes of the public and through this demand a response from their governments and the UN.

I recently came across a very well made documentary which covers the Darfur crisis since its beginning in 2003. The movie is called Darfur, On Our Watch and is about an hour long. It gives a very good image of the UN’s problems of intervention and prevention of genocide. It will also expand your view and knowledge about the politics of world powers such as the USA, Russia and China in regards to their own interests and the interests of people who find themselves under the machineguns’ fire. I highly recommend that you watch this piece.

You can view the movie on the following web-site: http://www.cbc.ca/doczone/darfur/video.html NOTE: You may need to watch it under Internet Explorer as Firefox seems to be having issues with loading the video. I also noticed that when watching it on IE under Vista you can’t play it in full screen mode and you need to scroll all the way up to the page, in order to see the image. Otherwise you’ll only get the sound. That might have been a local issue for me, but so you know.

A web-site which is mentioned in the movie is http://www.sudanreeves.org/ – it offers a load of information about the Darfur conflict. It’s worth visiting should you have more interest.

Last but not least, remember – the ignorance and indifference on our behalf might cost someone else’s life, family or child. I urge you to either send a link to this article to the friends and family of yours, or bookmark it on Facebook, MySpace, Google, Yahoo, etc. through the blue Share/Save button below – it will help spread the word.

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