Few things can impact you as much as the voices of the ones who have survived the terror of genocide. Few things can be more credible than the stories of those who miraculously escaped the bullets and village fires. Sadly, few are also the things that can set off the UN and the rest of the world to stop genocide.

While the world is still discussing the Oscar winners for this year and trying to tell you that a brand new car is better for you than the one you (maybe) own, I ask you to listen to a different tune. One of indescribable pain. But not pain as a result of physical abuse – the pain inflicted by the indifference of the world towards the victims of genocide.

The first video below will provide you with some testimonies of Darfur’s perpetrators – people who were awaken to see the ugliness of their actions and decided to turn around. The second video provides some testimonies of survivors from the village attacks on civilians in Western Darfur.

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What is Darfur and where is it to be found? Why care about it and will anything I do or don’t change it? Why does it go together with genocide?

These and many more questions are often left unanswered because people are either ignorant on the topic or choose to ignore it. Apparently, however, those who have decided to engage their minds in learning and thinking about it much has changed and this rather permanently.

If you haven’t caught it – I’ve recently become impacted by the reality of genocide in the world and awaken to where and how it’s present today. I’ve added a new category Genocide Monitor to the blog and have undertaken the task of making it known to you – my friends and readers. So you’ll be hearing more and more about it from me, along with all the rest that I normally post on here.

Unfortunately, I don’t have a way of isolating the e-mail notifications for the Genocide Monitor posts from all the rest. So, if you decide to unsubscribe, you’ll have to unsubscribe from all notifications through the link at the bottom of the e-mails you receive or from this page: Stay tuned. I’ll be honest and say that I’ll be a bit disappointed because I believe this to be important and that’s why I share it. Yet I won’t bother you about your decision.

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