Not on Our Watch: The Mission to End Genocide in Darfur and Beyond
by Don Cheadle, John Prendergast
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Author: Don Cheadle, John PrendergastEdition: Paperback
Published: 2007-05-01
ISBN: 1401303358
Number of pages: 272
Publisher: Hyperion
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Book Review: The futility of compassion
Summary: 1 Stars
This book will stir your outrage and fuel within you a tremendous desire to help. To do something! It is well-written to engage you and it evokes powerful emotions -- disgust, horror, hope.
But in the end, what a let-down!
The course of action recommended? The community of nations should come together to end this. Hasn't all this useless talking been going on for decades?
There is more to this story.
Sudan is an Islamic nation that has spent two decades ELIMINATING in evil and horrendous ways its Christian and non-Muslim populations. People get a real taste for it, after a whole generation. So now the various Muslim factions are turning against one another, sort of a Muslim-purity civil war, if you will. And the atrocities, the inhumanity, the disgusting, animalistic, sickening actions of these factions are finally getting a little attention.
But the U.N. is not going to do a thing about it. And the Sudanese are not likely to be convinced by chatter.
To end this horror in Darfur, you'd better put together an elite coalition of American, British, and Australian forces and go in there to protect the innocent and punish the guilty. Declare martial law and shut the place down. Permanently.
Because if you are going to declare "Not on our Watch," you had best take steps to ensure that it isn't just useless talk.
Summary of Not on Our Watch: The Mission to End Genocide in Darfur and Beyond
An Academy Award-nominated actor and a renowned human rights activist team up to change the tragic course of history in the Sudan -- with readers' helpWhile Don Cheadle was filming Hotel Rwanda, a new crisis had already erupted in Darfur, in nearby Sudan. In September 2004, then-Secretary of State Colin Powell termed the atrocities being committed there "genocide" -- and yet two years later things have only gotten worse. 3.5 million Sudanese are going hungry, 2.5 million have been displaced by violence, and 400,000 have died in Darfur to date.Both shocked and energized by this ongoing tragedy, Cheadle teamed up with leading activist John Prendergast to focus the world's attention. Not on Our Watch, their empowering book, offers six strategies readers themselves can implement: Raise Awareness, Raise Funds, Write a Letter, Call for Divestment, Start an Organization, and Lobby the Government. Each of these small actions can make a huge difference in the fate of a nation, and a people -- not only in Darfur, but in other crisis zones such as Somalia, Congo, and northern Uganda.International Books
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