Статья из Нью-Йорк Таймс

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... и нежелании "международного" сообщества почесаться, чтобы его остановить:

The New York Times

February 12, 2006 Sunday

Late Edition - Final

Disposable Cameras for Disposable People

By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF

Meet some of the disposable people of Darfur, the heirs of the

disposable Armenians, Jews, Cambodians, Rwandans and Bosnians of past

genocides. Look carefully, for several hundred thousand people like

these have already been slaughtered in Darfur in western Sudan -- and

the lives of two million more are in our hands.

On my fifth and last trip to Darfur, in November, I smuggled in 20

disposable cameras to hand out to these disposable people. While

taking photos without a permit is illegal in Sudan, two aid groups

agreed to distribute the cameras, teach the genocide survivors how to

use them, and then send me the pictures (for their own protection,

I'm not naming those aid groups).

Many of the resulting photos were unusable, for those shooting the

pictures had mostly never held a camera before. Many of them were

living until recently in thatch-roof mud huts, and their first direct

encounter with the modern world came when Sudanese military aircraft

strafed their villages.

The photos were taken in makeshift camps near the town of Zalingei

where survivors have lived since fleeing their villages. Taking a

photo more publicly might have led to an arrest or a beating. These

scenes reflect the banality of waiting -- for food, for protection,

for death. In short, such photos are a bit like those from the Warsaw

Ghetto in the early 1940's.

The photo in the upper left shows Assim, 5, Asiel, 3, and Salma,

almost 2; Assim says he misses the village trees he used to climb,

for in the camps the trees have all been cut for firewood. The photo

in the upper right shows a man named Adam in his tailor ''shop.''

The photo in the lower left shows Aisha and Fatima, preparing their

''stove.'' And in the lower right is Halima, a 27-year-old widow

whose husband and brother were murdered when the government-supported

janjaweed militia attacked her village. An aid group helps her and

other women make biscuits and cheese to sell in local markets -- so

they won't have to venture out of the camps and risk rape by the

janjaweed.

Granted, people like these die all the time in Africa of malaria or

AIDS. And it's true that it's probably as wrenching for a parent to

lose a child to malaria as to a machete. But when a government

deliberately slaughters people because of their tribe or skin color,

then that is a special affront to the bonds of humanity and creates a

particular obligation to respond. Nothing rips more at the common

fabric of humanity than genocide -- and the only way to assert our

own humanity is to stand up to it.

President Bush is doing more about Darfur than most other leaders,

but that's not saying much. The French are being particularly

unhelpful, while other Europeans (including, alas, Tony Blair) seem

to wonder whether it's really worth the expense to save people from

genocide. Muslim countries are silent about the slaughter of Darfur's

Muslims, while China disgraces itself by protecting Sudan in the

United Nations and underwriting the genocide with trade. Still, even

Mr. Bush is taking only baby steps.

Here are some grown-up steps Mr. Bush could take: He could enforce a

no-fly zone to stop air attacks on civilians in Darfur, lobby Arab

leaders to become involved, call President Hu Jintao and ask China to

stop protecting Sudan, invite Darfur refugees to a photo op at the

White House, attend a coming donor conference for Darfur, visit

Darfur or the refugee camps next door in Chad, push France and other

allies for a NATO bridging force to provide protection until United

Nations troops arrive, offer to support the United Nations force with

American military airlift and logistical support (though not ground

troops, which would help Sudan's hard-liners by allowing them to

claim that the United States was starting a new invasion of the Arab

world), make a major speech about Darfur, and arrange for Colin

Powell to be appointed a United Nations special envoy to seek peace

among Darfur's tribal sheiks.

With Mr. Bush saying little about Darfur, presidential leadership on

Darfur is coming from Slovenia. The Slovenian president, Janez

Drnovsek, has emerged as one of the few leaders who are actually

organizing an international effort to stop the genocide.

''You ask, Why Slovenia?'' he told me. ''I can ask, Why not

Slovenia?''

Mr. Drnovsek came to the United States recently to talk about Darfur

with Kofi Annan, Bill Clinton and Chinese officials. But he says that

President Bush declined to see him; if Mr. Bush were more serious

about Darfur, he would be hailing Slovenia's leadership -- indeed,

emulating it.

On Tuesday, Mr. Bush spoke movingly at the funeral of Coretta Scott

King. I hope he'll look at these photos and ruminate on an

observation of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.: ''Man's inhumanity to

man is not only perpetrated by the vitriolic actions of those who are

bad, it is also perpetrated by the vitiating inaction of those who

are good.''

[Kornelij Glas]

заметим, что там подписано соглашение, сценарий которого собираются повторить в Карабахе- через 6 лет будет проведен референдум о статусе Юга. Так что читайте внимательно, наматывайте на ус, готовьте сани

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Референдум назначен, а геноцид не прекращается. Действительно, есть о чем подумать.