For those who are interested, here's a couple of links to drawings done by children from Darfur, Sudan, where genocide was taking place. It's sad and heart-wrenching when you see what these kids have drawn.
CNN article
NPR story on the drawings
Slate article
a collection of the drawings
While we're on the topic of genocide, I would like to say a little something.
I get so sick of people talking about genocide as if it ended and never happened after WWII. A number of people on the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Aushwitz discussed genocide like it was only a horror to the last generation. I'm sorry, but Rwanda in 1994 and Bosnia in 1995 show that the promise of "never again" hasn't been met. It might never happen to the Jews again, but that's little comfort for the Tutsis, the Serbian Muslims, and the children of Darfur.
It's time we admitted that genocide is still with us and is part of the 21st century, not some problem of the past we've done away with.
Peace Pledge genocide site
Prevent Genocide International
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