Staring Genocide in the Face

Jerry Fowler, former staff director of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Committee on Conscience, traveled to Chad in May 2004 to investigate the threat of genocide in the Darfur region of Sudan. The Committee on Conscience, which guides the museum's genocide prevention activities, issued a genocide alert for Sudan in July 2004. Fowler interviewed refugees spread over hundreds of miles in eastern Chad. In this photo essay, Fowler comments on his travels through Eastern Chad, the people he met there, and the region's hopes for the future. To learn more about the Committee on Conscience and the genocide prevention efforts of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum visit http://www.ushmm.org/conscience/.

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[TheLalalalily]

@haszK I hope you're joking.

[ngququ]

The sad part is that the international community is allowing this to happen, just as it did the genocide in Rwanda.

[haszK]

I doubt that is true. Dafur cannot help us , so we dont help Dafur. I mean who cares right? They are just a bunch of nobodies on the other side of the planet. Now stealing oil from the middle east and starting another war over a grude which cost hundreds of thousands of US military and Iraqi lives is more like it.

YAY go BUSH!

[ditchmonkey2]

bush sent over 2 billion dollars to Darfur in two years!(2003-2005) kept sending more after that too, then becoming more than any other country. He also helped organize supply shipments, "slum doctor" work, and much more. The media just decided to hide what America has done and keeps doing for this region.

[haszK]

Its sad that Bush wont do anything to help these people.