Let's heal Darfur

Alex Kamunyu is a brave young man who is determined to make a difference to the millions of humans who are suffering in Darfur, Sudan. He runs on the roads of Johannesburg to raise awareness and has a website to garner support of the world community. Here I quote from his website:

…Since the start of the conflict, many lives have been lost -- mostly women and children as well as destruction of property and the wanton raping of women and girls. It is estimated that more than 250,000 lives have been lost and more than 2, 5 million people have been displaced. By far, this is the worst humanitarian crisis at present. The USA describes the situation in Darfur as 'slow genocide'...

At the moment he is determined to taking a minimum of 1 million signatures of all those people who choose to recognize the atrocities being perpetrated on the innocents. I urge all readers to jion in. Because he then intends to print these out and submit bound copies to the following stakeholders:

1. United Nations Secretary General – H.E. Ban ki Moon.

2. Chairman of the African Union – H.E. Jakaya Kikwete

3. President of the Republic of Sudan – H.E. Omar El Bashir

4. Prime Minister of the People's Republic of China – H.E. Hu Jintao (China has been accused of supplying small arms to the Sudanese government which in turn are used by the Janjaweed ( Arabic for 'armed men on horseback') to cause conflict in Darfur.

It was a moving moment for me to receive a request from him a few weeks ago to use the poem that I had written after reading Ban Ki Moon's article in Washington post last year. I readily accepted, off course. According to him it appropriately captures the situation that the people are in. Read my poem from here.