
The current tragic state in the Sudan is often overlooked by out preoccupied masses. But the situation in Darfur is just as urgent as the Tsunami of South East Asia, and our occupation of Iraq. Though popular media may be somewhat ignoring the crisis many people are still actively discussing it and posting current news about it on blogs. One in particular is the passionofthepresnt blog; this is a Harvard blog dealing with current events. Their most recent update pertains to the extreme overcrowding in Kalma camp in the Darfur region of the Sudan. The camp is built for 60,000 and there are 150,000 people residing in the camp. The crisis in the Sudan has killed more than 340,000 and displaced about 2 million. The blog is filled with a vivid depiction of the hopeless refugees, and provides the bleak situation these people face. They are homeless in their own land. Run off for fear of "Arab militia men" and the Sudanese government. This genocide is complete with all the classic horrors. There's brutal torture and mass murder of hundreds of thousands, starvation, rape, and general desecration of human life, but most of all, the blind eye is present. This eye which only opens when it sees fit, and when its best interest are at hand.