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Walking the Talk

In a posting I did back on 18 September last I noted how despite what the world had said at the end of WW2 in relation to the Holocaust - "never again" - we had since then witnessed horrible genocides in China, Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur amongst others. The world simply hasn't woken up to itself!

Interestingly, a year ago a group of students at an American College, Swarthmore, decided to take on an unusual extracurricular activity - stopping genocide. What has come out of their sterling efforts and their project is a Genocide Intervention Fund which has been taken up and supported by many in the USA. Money has been raised as well as fostering awareness of genocides like that presently underway in Darfur. Check out the Fund's web site. Perhaps it's a fond hope that we might see a replication here in Australia?

At the time of the Holocaust Pres. Roosevelt was uninterested as is Pres. Bush now in relation to Darfur. It can't be said that PM Howard or Lord Downer of Baghdad [as Mike Carlton describes him] have seemingly been motivated to do or even say anything on the subject of genocide or Darfur in particular. Arthur Koestler referred to those who demanded action as "the screamers". We need those "screamers" now as much as ever!

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