Janae Jones- Outside Reading- Darfur

I read a book not too long ago called Not on our Watch by Don Cheadle and John Prendergast. This book is about the tragic events that are occurring in Darfur and how you can help stop this genocide. In 2004, President Bush declared the events in Darfur to be a genocide. Ten years earlier in 1994, there was a genocide in Rwanda. As many as 450,000 have died in this genocide. There was a movie made based on the genocide in Rwanda. The movie was called Hotel Rwanda and it starred Don Cheadle as the main character, Paul Rusesabagina. The genocide in Rwanda was about the Hutu's killing the Tutsi's. A hotel manager, Paul Rusesabagina sheltered over a thousand Tutsi refugees from the other Hutus. Because Paul was married to a Tutsi, his family was in constant danger. In Darfur there are innocent civilians being raped and murdred. The genocide is the brutal plan of three men in the Sudanese National Government. This book was really hard to swallow at times and as a result I have not finished reading it. It really puts into perspective how fortunate we as Americans are to have the government that we have that doesn't allow mass genocides to occur.