DARFUR
Since 2003, the crisis in Darfur has taken over 400,000 lives and seen over 2.3 million people forced from their homes. Though the international community has been aware of this crisis for several years, the situation in Darfur continues to deteriorate. An increase in violence, combined with governmental inaction and lack of funding, has critically endangered humanitarian life-support systems. Through repeated trips to the region, several of our board members have witnessed this carnage and catastrophe. Not On Our Watch has adopted the crisis in Darfur as its inaugural campaign.
For more information on the conflict in Darfur, click here.
For strategy papers and updates, click here.
For a short video on Darfur, click here.
BURMA
Burma (also known as Myanmar) is governed by one of the most brutal military regimes in the world. Since 1990, fair elections have not been held, and the ruling junta continues to deny the Burmese even basic human rights. In the Eastern part of the country, the military continues to subjugate and eradicate Burma's ethnic minorities in the hopes of gaining access to the country's natural resources. To date, over three thousand villages have been razed. Men, women and children are forced off their land and into camps or conscripted into the army. Estimates show that Burma has over 90,000 child soldiers: the most in the world. Burmese soldiers continue to use rape as a weapon of war and it is estimated that there are over one million people that have fled military violence.
For more background on Burma, please click here:
http://www.hrw.org/doc?t=asia&c=burma
http://www.crisisgroup.org/home/index.cfm?id=2958&l=1
