The World is Witness
http://blogs.ushmm.org/WorldIsWitness/
This is a powerful blog – one worth visiting subscribing to and supporting.
If we look beyond the safety of our comfortable lives there is a frightening world out there. A world where violence, persecution, brutality, hunger, war and ignorance are commonplace. Sites like this and mediastorm give us insights into this world, they show a view we can’t get from mainstream media.
“World is Witness, a new “geoblog” from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Genocide Prevention Mapping Initiative, in partnership with Google Earth, documents and maps genocide and related crimes against humanity. The initial entries are from a recent Museum visit to Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to learn about the legacies of Rwanda’s 1994 genocide. Visit us again soon for more posts from the field.”
The lead post is THEY STOLE MY GRANDSON
The most coveted tools of warfare in North Kivu are not grenades, or even shoulder-fired missiles. Children are the weapon of choice- too young to question orders, with hands the perfect size for Russian made AK-47 (Kalashnakov) assault rifles, they are taken from their schools and homes and forced into service, kept from leaving through fear of punishment or drug addiction. They are used as frontline fighters, porters, and even sex slaves.
Read it world is witness – go to Mediastorm watch the rape of a nation – then start blogging, talking, twittering, podcasting about it.
Do something, don’t stand back passively and watch
