Watch "On Our Watch (Genocide in Darfur)" - Online

For those of you who missed the PBS special,On Our Watch about the genocide in Darfur and how the world reacted after previously vowing "Never Again," after Rwanda and Bosnia.

The world vowed "never again" after the genocide in Rwanda and the atrocities in Srebrenica, Bosnia. Then came Darfur. Over the past four years, at least 200,000 people have been killed, 2.5 million driven from their homes, and mass rapes have been used as a weapon in a brutal campaign - supported by the Sudanese government - against civilians in Darfur. In On Our Watch, FRONTLINE asks why the United Nations and its members once again failed to stop the slaughter.

Word of the burgeoning crisis in Darfur first came to the newly appointed U.N. humanitarian coordinator for Sudan, Mukesh Kapila, in 2003. "A young woman in her late 20s perhaps, who had trekked all the way from Darfur, sat in my office," Kapila tells FRONTLINE. "And she told me her personal story of how not only had she herself been multiply raped but also that her sisters and her family had also been maltreated in that way, and that this had actually been done by soldiers and people dressed in military and paramilitary uniforms." PBS.org

You can watch the entire documentary online. The site also has a comprehensive timeline and other resources.

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Comments

[The Angry Independent]

Thanks for putting a focus on this. I am a documentary addict and have seen this particular program. I actually posted it last year.

Whenever I post these documentaries, I often get *crickets* in the comments area. It's like shouting from a Mountain top where no one can hear you.
It's also a pitfall of being a "Black" blogger.... certain topics that you would think should spark interest (particularly international issues) tend to be a hard sell.

But I keep posting about Darfur and other issues anyway....

I suggest (for those who have not seen it) that your readers check out "The Ghosts of Rwanda". Order the DVD. However, there are substantial previews that can be viewed from PBS online. This award winning documentary became the basis for the motion picture- Hotel Rwanda.

Once again, after Rwanda, folks repeated "Never again". But here we are again...about 3 years into a genocide...and nothing significant is happening. Folks are more concerned with keeping the oil flowing so that they can keep driving Billy & Sue to the Mall and to Soccer practice in their gas guzzling SUV's. The U.S. and China are especially guilty of that charge.

Ironically, it didn't take much effort to get the U.S. to stop two civil wars in Europe in the mid and late 1990's, damn near sparking WWIII during the second intervention. But no one cares about the plight of Africans.

I really believe that when World leaders claimed "never again" 6 decades ago, they only had Europeans in mind.

Black Africans simply are not perceived by the Worlds big powers as having the same human value as non-Africans. That's the elephant in the room that the talking heads would rather tip toe around rather than face up to.

[SheCodes]

Ironically, it didn't take much effort to get the U.S. to stop two civil wars in Europe in the mid and late 1990's, damn near sparking WWIII during the second intervention. But no one cares about the plight of Africans.

I really believe that when World leaders claimed "never again" 6 decades ago, they only had Europeans in mind.

THANK YOU. I also wonder what it will take to get more of us interested in the unspeakable atrocities happening in other parts of the word, especially in the Congo and Darfur.

I don't understand why it's not a talking point in this election, which is supposed to be about race, gender, economics, international politics and war.o

AI, putting our 'play fight' aside, I want to thank you for posting on Darfur and similar topics; I will continue to read them, although I can't comment as much as I used to due to time constraints.

I tried to watch "The Ghosts of Rwanda" but the stress and rage got to me...I began to feel nauseous and had to stop.

Let me know if you have any ideas to help us raise the level of awareness! I would love to collaborate around this... even if you DO hate black women (:-P)

[The Angry Independent]

"Let me know if you have any ideas to help us raise the level of awareness! I would love to collaborate around this... even if you DO hate black women (:-P)"

I don't know where you get this idea that I hate Black women. I don't like certain kinds of women... but I don't necessarily group them by any color/ethnic group.... Certain women are more prone to engage in the kinds of behaviors that I don't like... but I don't hate an entire group on that basis.