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More aid for Darfur.

The Sand and the Sorrow, narrated by George Clooney, details the historical events that gave rise to the Arab-dominated Darfur government’s willingness to kill and displace its own indigenous African people.  It examines the international community’s failure to respond to such profound crimes against humanity not because we can’t but because the Sudanese government doesn’t want any help.
The people of Darfur—located in the eastern region of the country next to Chad—have seen it all.  Women have been raped and killed, children have been left to starve and young girls no longer look for wood if they have to go very far from camp.  “Camp” is made up of tents that other countries have given and they are packed with families who fear to move because the Janjaweed are always on the lookout for someone that they can kill.
The Janjaweed drive through the open desert looking for camps. They pillage and burn and take the women so they can rape and kill them.  It’s gruesome and shameful that it’s taking place.  No one is really safe and you will see in this DVD how the people try to survive.  Through interpreters, peacekeepers learn of the Darfur peoples’ plight and try to provide what aid they can to those who are still alive.
The Sand and the Sorrow will have you on the edge of your seat and make you angry as you watch the people try to make a living for themselves with little water and even less food.  Starvation runs rampant throughout the villages that have been set up close to the Chad border, which can’t take the refugees in because it’s one of the poorest countries on earth.
Watch this then and weep for the poor people of Darfur who only want a better life away from the murder and rape.  It will set a fire in your heart.

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