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April 7, 2004
Rwanda, Sudan, and Genocide

We didn't pay much attention to the slaughter in Rwanda 10 years ago, and we're not paying much attention to the ceremonies marking the anniversary of that horrible event. We're also not paying much attention to the Sudan, which Kofi Annan warns is on the brink of genocide, if not already there.

All the rhetoric surrounding Iraq; that we are liberating them from an evil dictator, bringing them freedom and democracy, just trying to help. It all falls a little flat when we completely ignore the slaughter of 800,000 ten years ago, then ignore the marking of the anniversary, and with all of our resources tied up in the horror that is Iraq, it's highly unlikely we'll do anything about the Sudan.

Bush has called the president and asked him to stop the genocide. To his credit, that's more than Clinton did about Rwanda, but it's far from enough. If we truly cared so much about the safety and freedom of the world's people, we could never let these things happen.

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