In these chapters, the authors go into detail on what led to the genocide and what the situation is like in Darfur. I can see that the Darfur genocide is not that different from what has been happening in Sudan all along - it is really just a continuation of the same nightmare. Don, John, and many others have reported horrible things that are happening there today. Children are thrown into fires, women and girls raped/gang raped, men killed, complete villages burned, bodies thrown in water wells, and many others. Many people have had their families killed, leaving them with no one, no home, no food and water, and severe injuries.
What is really even more sad about this is that all history is a continuation of what has happened. Darfur is a continuation of the past, and we keep on responding the same way. As a whole, our thought systems are the same as they've ever been, and this explains why the same thing still happens again and again. Fear is our basic emotion instead of love, and that's why these negative things keep on happening. If we aren't always experiencing love through our days, weeks, months, and years, then we will not be awake. We will be immersed in situations like Darfur, where we see hell instead of a bad dream.
By action, we are stopping Darfur. By thought, we allow it to be written in our future. People will be just as frightened in a couple decades about another genocide the same way that we are frightened now with Darfur.
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I love the way you used the example of love and hate to relate to the events going on in Darfur. If we do not start acting with love, and treating every human being as if they are your neighbor or friend no matter how far away, a lot more good would be in the world. This would then result to advancing away from our repeated history. You would think that human kind would prefer to love, when it seems that all we tend to do is hate. Maybe this is the answer to so many problems. Its easy right? We would think so, but looking back at our history it seems it is so much harder to do than it is to say.
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