The Tutsis were genocidally butchered by the Hutus in Rwanda. Now Colonel Nkunda has stepped forward to protect the Tutsis in Congo from the same Hutu rebels who have spilled over from Rwanda into Congo.
The Peaceful minority Kurds are being hounded and bullied in Turkey, Iran and Iraq.Saddam Hussein notoriously poison gassed them .
The Indonesian Army under orders from the Indonesian government suppressed and oppressed the peaceful people of East Timor.Many young girls were raped by the Indonesian militia , people just disappeared and homes were ransacked.
Finally the International community stepped forward and granted Indepenedence to East Timor.
Should we say more ?
Israeli holocaust , American war of Independence from the unjust colonial British , Democratic Unionist Party of England ( DUPE ) literally duping The NorthIrish ....................
Ashley Judd’s Heart Of Darkness
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"Why do you do this?" I asked.
"Because I have to," she said. The journey to Rwanda and Congo in May, like many others she has taken with PSI, seems to have been intensely personal, at once exploration and expiation, and completely exhausting. "I know when it's time to go back," she said. "I was flat on my back for three weeks after the Democratic Republic of Congo." She went to her family doctor, and then to a psychologist in Nashville who deals with post-traumatic stress disorder. And the psychologist said, "Actually, this isn't trauma, this is just plain old straight-up grief."
During the genocide in Rwanda and in Bosnia in the 1990s, and in so many other horrible conflicts before and since, journalists, diplomats and not a few celebrities have witnessed horrors and warned of worse to come, and nothing effective is done to stop the impending tragedy. Even when a cause becomes as celebrated as saving Darfur, it's hard to see positive results. So what can you do in a place as vastly grim and as widely ignored as eastern Congo?
"I have to put my faith in the power of an individual," said Judd. "A few sips of water made safe, averting a single case of HIV, preventing an unintended pregnancy—those moments matter.
"My grandmother taught me that what comes from the head goes over the head, what comes from the heart goes to the heart," said Judd. Her colleagues at PSI and YouthAIDS do the heavy analytical and organizational lifting needed to sustain clinics and deliver other kinds of help around the world, Judd said, leaving her to work "entirely from the heart."
"Inevitably, there are people who say that you are a voyeur," I said.
"Let them come with me—Come 'voyeur' with me," she said.
"There is a powerful scene in your diary about women waiting outside the clinic in Goma that treats rape victims," I said. "There are so many that they wait for days, weeks, months, living hand to mouth."
"This epidemic of rape; it's like a contagion," said Judd. "When one man does it, it activates other men, and then the more brutal it becomes—looking for pregnant women to rape, and children. It's so unbelievably heinous that it's hard for us to wrap our minds around."
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