Cambodian students light candles as they attended candlelight vigil at a mosque to remember Darfur victims in the capital Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Sunday, Sept. 17, 2006. Cambodia, still haunted by memories of the brutal Khmer Rouge regime's rule in which nearly 2 million were killed in the late 1970s, joined a global rally Sunday to call for an end to violence in the war-torn Darfur region of Sudan. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)Tens of thousands of people all over the world will take part in the Global Day for Darfur on Sunday to call world leaders to take immediate action against the violence in Darfur.
Sun, Sep. 17, 2006
Christian Post Reporter
The Associated Press
NEW YORK – Tens of thousands of people all over the world will take part in the Global Day for Darfur on Sunday to call world leaders to take immediate action against the violence in Darfur.
The day of action will see 55 events – rallies, candlelight vigils and conferences – in 34 countries with everyone shouting for one thing: the immediate deployment of United Nations peacekeeping force to war-torn Darfur.
In the meantime, hundreds of volunteer fighters from Sudan's Popular Defense Forces are rallying against U.N. troops from entering Sudan. Any U.N. force that enters would be considered as "invading" even if the order was from the United Nations, said Ahmed Bilal Osman, a presidential adviser, according to Reuters.
"Any country that takes part in this invasion force will enter into a state of war with Sudan," he said.
In the days leading up to Global Day for Darfur, actor George Clooney appealed to the United Nations Security Council for peacekeepers, saying they are the "last political recourse of Darfur victims."'
"... This genocide will be on your watch. How you deal with it will be your legacy, your Rwanda, your Cambodia, your Auschwitz," Clooney said, according to the Associated Press.
Between 170,000 and 250,000 people have died in Darfur since 2003, according to a study published Friday in the journal Science.
Following an April Save Darfur rally in Washington, D.C., a rally in Central Park in New York is expected to draw up to 50,000 people, who will constitute only a small segment of the larger international support on Sunday. New York's rally is said to be the centerpiece of the global day of action. The significance and hugeness of the Global Day for Darfur have drawn ongoing prayers for those being terrorized in Darfur.
Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, the spiritual head of the worldwide Anglican Communion, has joined other faith leaders in expressing concern for Darfur and has published a prayer for Sunday.
"... my prayer as a Christian is that we may live internationally as we seek to live locally: that we are all children of God, with no more or less value in the eyes of God than those whose names and villages we do not know," he had said earlier this year after visiting Sudan."
"We pray for those whose lives are lived on the margins of nations and suffer from the wars that others fight around them," Williams said in a prayer for Sunday. "We pray for the warring factions, that they may see themselves under the gaze of God and those who suffer for their cause. We pray for the peoples of Darfur who are haunted by fear of violence, hunger and hopelessness, that they may continue to be fed, visited and defended. We pray for the work of peacekeepers, negotiators and the humanitarian organizations that security may prevail. We pray for the Government of Sudan and for her unity. We pray for peace in the name of him who is the Prince of Peace, Jesus Christ our Lord."
Even after the world shouts and prays for the ravaged nation on Sunday, the Save Darfur Coalition media spokesperson said action will be ongoing until U.N. peacekeepers are on the ground in Darfur.
Sun, Sep. 17, 2006
Christian Post Reporter
The Associated Press
NEW YORK – Tens of thousands of people all over the world will take part in the Global Day for Darfur on Sunday to call world leaders to take immediate action against the violence in Darfur.
The day of action will see 55 events – rallies, candlelight vigils and conferences – in 34 countries with everyone shouting for one thing: the immediate deployment of United Nations peacekeeping force to war-torn Darfur.
In the meantime, hundreds of volunteer fighters from Sudan's Popular Defense Forces are rallying against U.N. troops from entering Sudan. Any U.N. force that enters would be considered as "invading" even if the order was from the United Nations, said Ahmed Bilal Osman, a presidential adviser, according to Reuters.
"Any country that takes part in this invasion force will enter into a state of war with Sudan," he said.
In the days leading up to Global Day for Darfur, actor George Clooney appealed to the United Nations Security Council for peacekeepers, saying they are the "last political recourse of Darfur victims."'
"... This genocide will be on your watch. How you deal with it will be your legacy, your Rwanda, your Cambodia, your Auschwitz," Clooney said, according to the Associated Press.
Between 170,000 and 250,000 people have died in Darfur since 2003, according to a study published Friday in the journal Science.
Following an April Save Darfur rally in Washington, D.C., a rally in Central Park in New York is expected to draw up to 50,000 people, who will constitute only a small segment of the larger international support on Sunday. New York's rally is said to be the centerpiece of the global day of action. The significance and hugeness of the Global Day for Darfur have drawn ongoing prayers for those being terrorized in Darfur.
Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, the spiritual head of the worldwide Anglican Communion, has joined other faith leaders in expressing concern for Darfur and has published a prayer for Sunday.
"... my prayer as a Christian is that we may live internationally as we seek to live locally: that we are all children of God, with no more or less value in the eyes of God than those whose names and villages we do not know," he had said earlier this year after visiting Sudan."
"We pray for those whose lives are lived on the margins of nations and suffer from the wars that others fight around them," Williams said in a prayer for Sunday. "We pray for the warring factions, that they may see themselves under the gaze of God and those who suffer for their cause. We pray for the peoples of Darfur who are haunted by fear of violence, hunger and hopelessness, that they may continue to be fed, visited and defended. We pray for the work of peacekeepers, negotiators and the humanitarian organizations that security may prevail. We pray for the Government of Sudan and for her unity. We pray for peace in the name of him who is the Prince of Peace, Jesus Christ our Lord."
Even after the world shouts and prays for the ravaged nation on Sunday, the Save Darfur Coalition media spokesperson said action will be ongoing until U.N. peacekeepers are on the ground in Darfur.
6 comments:
Never again to genocide happen anywhere in the world! But you know what it is still happening!
If the UN can't even stop genocide and who can? Where is Superman?! Where is Superman?! Where are you?! Humanity need you!!
It's useless for these khmer students to show solidarity about the Darfur genocide. They should spend their time to candlelights about the suffering of Khmer people under this regime now. Why worry about other people's problem? The US and European union don't care for years about Sudan. so why the Khmer people worries? Take a quarter century for the US and European to trial Khmer rouge because we're not worth to care about. Not like Kosovo, Iraq or other part of the world, they act so quick.
How sad. The Second Anonymous comment above, which says that Khmer people should only focus on Khmer problems, says that people who suffer cannot help each other, only themselves.
All those who suffer need to help each other. Helping others does not mean abandoning ourselves. It DOES mean that others will be more likely to help us.
Anonymous is correct that the world, by and large, just doesn't care about Cambodia. Anonymous is also right that Cambodians will need to solve Cambodian problems, without waiting for the US, the UN, or 'superman.'
But I think, with respect, that Anonymous is wrong to suggest that we can only solve our own problems. Rather, I think we will only suceed when we cooperate with other people in solving all of our problems together.
This, is called Solidarity.
Anonymous 11:42 PM, please open your hart and your wisdom. Remember when you were under Pol Pot era, how happy were you to know that there were people who care. As human being, we can't think just Khmers alone. Any lives saved are lives to live to save others. When was the last time you tried to help someone beside your own family?
What a noble thing to do. Go Cambodian students. I'm so prouded.
It is very moving moment that the students gather together to do peace candlelight vigils for other suffering human beings. Those Dufurs people indeed need world attention for their plights. This evidence has shown that many Cambodian people continue to be able to have the brightside of the brain hemiphere, despite they had been abused in the past and are still being beat up physically and emotionally by the people who have only the darkside of the brain. The students, I believe, are more than willing to hold the same event for their fellow Cambodian unfortunate people, if they are allowed to do so freely.
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