U.N. troops will go to war ravaged Darfur

http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/africa/07/31/darfur.troops.reut/



The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously to authorize up to 26,000 troops and police in an effort to stop attacks on millions of displaced civilians in Sudan's Darfur region.
The resolution allows the use of force in self-defense, to ensure freedom of movement for humanitarian workers and to protect civilians under attack.
The resolution calls on member states to finalize their contributions to the new force, called UNAMID or the United Nations-African Union Mission in Darfur, within 30 days. UNAMID would incorporate the under-equipped and under-financed 7,000 African Union troops now in Darfur.

As people from the MDC, more developed country, we are exposed to global events everyday in the media. I feel like almost everyday on the news, there is a story about the war in Iraq and/or conflicts in other regions of the world. As viewers of this global news, we have become accustomed to this type of violence and hearing about genocides throughout the world. Especially when there is no personal story or face attached to these people in countries that we have never traveled to or heard of. Because of this, the stories seem like they are so far away from us. Additionally, because of our ignorance towards the African continent, we tend to group all Africans together and when we hear about all of the different conflicts that occur there, it is almost too overwhelming to feel like anything could be done to help. Ultimately, we live in a country where we are fed information about tragic world events daily, we have become unable to understand the horror of most events and continue with our daily lives because we feel that there is nothing we can do to help. In my opinion this attitude is similar to our democratic process. Americans are getting too lazy and feel like they have no part in the decision-making process anyways, so why do anything?