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Not on Our Watch: The Mission to End Genocide in Darfur and Beyond | 
 enlarge | Authors: Don Cheadle, John Prendergast
Publisher: Hyperion
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  21 reviews
Sales Rank: 39435
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 272
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Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 5.7 x 1.1
ISBN: 1401303358
Dewey Decimal Number: 962.404
EAN: 9781401303358
ASIN: 1401303358
Publication Date: May 1, 2007
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Product Description
An Academy Award-nominated actor and a renowned human rights activist team up to change the tragic course of history in the Sudan -- with readers' help While Don Cheadle was filming Hotel Rwanda, a new crisis had already erupted in Darfur, in nearby Sudan. In September 2004, then-Secretary of State Colin Powell termed the atrocities being committed there "genocide" -- and yet two years later things have only gotten worse. 3.5 million Sudanese are going hungry, 2.5 million have been displaced by violence, and 400,000 have died in Darfur to date. Both shocked and energized by this ongoing tragedy, Cheadle teamed up with leading activist John Prendergast to focus the world's attention. Not on Our Watch, their empowering book, offers six strategies readers themselves can implement: Raise Awareness, Raise Funds, Write a Letter, Call for Divestment, Start an Organization, and Lobby the Government. Each of these small actions can make a huge difference in the fate of a nation, and a people -- not only in Darfur, but in other crisis zones such as Somalia, Congo, and northern Uganda.
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An Introduction to the Recent Genocides in Africa November 5, 2008
This book helps balance the usual Eurocentric emphasis on genocide. The reader learns that 800,000 humans were slain in Rwanda during a 100-day period in 1994. This is a greater rate than that of the Jews by the Germans during WWII.
In Darfur, non-Arab peoples were targeted. The governments chose the most extreme form of counterinsurgency in the world: drain the pond to catch the fish. (The pond, in this metaphor, represents an entire ethnic group, and the fish represent those who actively oppose the government). The governments also played one group off against others. Gang rapes and harsh slavery were the order of the day. The desert contained the dehydrated bodies of the victims.
As for activism, one can picture the hindrance caused by the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: Apathy, Indifference, Ignorance, and Political Inertia.
 DARFUR and PALESTINE: VICTIMS of GENOCIDE. July 16, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
Read and be very upset, just like reading about the atrocities being committed against the helpless Palestinians. What is this world coming to? Read the book to be aware and speak out about the truth you read here.
 The futility of compassion April 22, 2008
6 out of 9 found this review helpful
This book will stir your outrage and fuel within you a tremendous desire to help. To do something! It is well-written to engage you and it evokes powerful emotions -- disgust, horror, hope.
But in the end, what a let-down!
The course of action recommended? The community of nations should come together to end this. Hasn't all this useless talking been going on for decades?
There is more to this story.
Sudan is an Islamic nation that has spent two decades ELIMINATING in evil and horrendous ways its Christian and non-Muslim populations. People get a real taste for it, after a whole generation. So now the various Muslim factions are turning against one another, sort of a Muslim-purity civil war, if you will. And the atrocities, the inhumanity, the disgusting, animalistic, sickening actions of these factions are finally getting a little attention.
But the U.N. is not going to do a thing about it. And the Sudanese are not likely to be convinced by chatter.
To end this horror in Darfur, you'd better put together an elite coalition of American, British, and Australian forces and go in there to protect the innocent and punish the guilty. Declare martial law and shut the place down. Permanently.
Because if you are going to declare "Not on our Watch," you had best take steps to ensure that it isn't just useless talk.
call to action March 29, 2008
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Well now I know where Darfur is, not to mention Chad, Congo, Uganda, Kenya etc....this book does a pretty good job of explaining the conflict. But their main purpose is to get the reader to ACT. Which I am doing... if only to allay the deep sense of trajedy one gets from reading of the terror going on there...and here, as we turn our backs on the situation. At first I was put off by the seeming light-heartedness of the authors but now I realize they, and you, as the reader, have to put up some kind of boundry in order to not be swept away by dispair.
If you want to change something. February 8, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
If you want to learn about some ways to actually try and change something in our world about the terrible things that are happening internationally then read this book. The authors are very practical in breaking down simple steps you can take as the average joe to change things. This is GREAT!
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