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Not on Our Watch: The Mission to End Genocide in Darfur and Beyond
Category: Paperback
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 1401303358
Manufacturer: Hyperion
Release Date: 2007-05-01
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Editorial Reviews
Product Description:
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.
Customer Reviews
The futility of compassion by M. Heiss
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 hororendous 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.
call to action by sharon miller
Well now I know where Darfur is, not to mention Chad, Congo, Uganda, Kenya etc….this book does a pretty good job of explaining the conflict. But their main purpose is to get the reader to ACT. Which I am doing… if only to allay the deep sense of trajedy one gets from reading of the terror going on there…and here, as we turn our backs on the situation. At first I was put off by the seeming light-heartedness of the authors but now I realize they, and you, as the reader, have to put up some kind of boundry in order to not be swept away by dispair.
If you want to change something. by Aspirations
If you want to learn about some ways to actually try and change something in our world about the terrible things that are happening internationally then read this book. The authors are very practical in breaking down simple steps you can take as the average joe to change things. This is GREAT!
A MUST READ by Rita D. Bacote
THIS BOOK IS A MUST READ FOR ANY AND ALL HUMAN BEINGS THAT HAVE COMPASSION AND HOPE FOR ALL PEOPLE.
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