This picture caused the world to take notice and may have helped to drive the photographer to suicide, however the sickness is all this bogles my mind, and not for the reasons you may think.

This is a very famous pulitzer prize picture take in 1994 during the Sudan Famine.
The picture depicts stricken child crawling towards a United Nations food camp, located a kilometer away.

The vulture is waiting for the child to die so that it can eat him. This picture shocked the whole world. No one knows what happened to the child, including the photographer Kevin Carter who left the place as soon as the photograph was take. He is known to have never helped the crawling girl, but did try to get the vulture to leave.

Three months later he committed suicide due to depression.

Anyway my 2 cents here….

There are still regions like that, I feel for the childeren, I have one of my own and could not imagine him looking like that, but I also must add that as a parant, I would do everything I could to feed the kid and yes get creative about it.

If I had to go out and dig up every earthworm in a mile radius to get the protien out of them, I would.  The point is that every region of the planet has its own environment and you either learn to work it for food or move. People living on ice bergs learned to  drill holes to fish through it, people living in sand deserts have made scorpions a menu item, people in areas with green vegetation have learned to harvest certain plants to make teas. Most regions around the planet have adapted to thier climate over many, many generations… what happened here?

I understand there is drought, but they still get more water than many sand deserts, enough to cause floods many years. The vegetation is green in many areas there meaning that crops may be grown. I live in a drought area with maybe less rainfall than they get and I have had my backyard gardens, planted in the desert sand, and there are food plants that are still there that I have not watered in years and can’t even get rid of because they grow back after being pulled, some of them are worse than weeds… so why do these kids need to starve?

The reason is simple, it is easier to throw some money at them, collect 1 buck a day from TV viewers and send them rice, than it is to teach them how to cultivate crops and create thier own food. I think its that simple. This is a region of people who really do not have the skills nor knowledge to fend for themselves and that may be due to the centuries of interference by European colonies and now by others… It seems no one is doing them any favors by giving out food once a week or whatever it may be.

Here is a quote I also found about the way that the aid money is spent….”if you’re going to give aid then it has to be appropriate. there’s a leader in north west africa who built a motorway for his people with the money from aid. its okay, except there are no cars. one hospital recieved 10 state-of-the-art incubators to help decrease the IMR (Infant Mortality Rate). they’re now gathering dust becasue the hospital doesn’t have enough electricity to power them! so while all this talk about giving them technology is good, it has to be APPROPRIATE”

He may be right, stop giving those fools… sorry “leaders” money. Do not give handouts (other than birth control), Put the money towards more education on basic living skills, investing in irrigation, water storage,  and getting that region to the level that most indians were 1000’s of years ago. ( I am sure I am not the first with that brainstorm… but seems it has not been totally effective since kids still starve)

Those pictures sicken us! Maybe the best thing to do is stop taking pictures of things we know about and can not control, stop giving aid to the leaders (that they do not seem to spend well) and allow them to catch up to the rest of the planet on thier own…. This may seem cruel, but “natural selection” is the way species survive and they adapt or die out, modern TV and media may be halting or expediting the process (not sure which). The birds and animals in the region are doing fine, since when do animals know more than the human population?

Why does the vulture in that look so healthy? how the hell can a vulture be more industrious and able to find his own food when a species a zillion times smarter can not? Eat the vultures for GOD’s sake, we already know that mofo will eat you! In most  places, humans hunt the animals… not vice versa. There is so something wrong with that picture!

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Everyone, including myself, who has complained about our governments needs to be introduced to Darfur.

So how bad can a region be in modern times… pretty freaking horrid.

What we all should be complaining about is how can something like this be going on. How can hundreds of thousands of people get killed for being born.

Everyone on this planet has now seen or heard about the craziness in Darfur… but here it is again!

Below is a very, very graphic video of the things that have happened and may still be happening around the planet… this is Dafur, where they have been fighting for sometime.

The sickl thing here is that its not a war where its one military against another, this is more of a tribal war that puts the government and militia against civilians.

here is the Darfur Video of a man getting his limbs cut-off

for more on the Darfur humanitarian crisis and genocide check this out. From WikipediaThe campaign of mass killing and torture began when Darfurians, fearing that an end to the generation-long conflict in southern Sudan would divide access to the country’s resources between the ruling elite and the southerners (leaving Darfur empty-handed), accused the Sudanese government of neglect. Two local rebel groups — the Justice and Equality Movement and the Sudan Liberation Movement — blaming the Sudanese government for oppressing non-Arabs in favor of Arabs, staged an armed rebellion in early 2003. Khartoum responded by unleashing the Janjaweed and the Sudanese military on the black African civilian population. The atrocities they have committed include ethnic cleansing; impeding international humanitarian efforts; bombing civilian targets; and murdering, starving, maiming, torturing, displacing, and raping civilians (Wikipedia).Apicture of a village before and after an attack, the people were killed and the homes destroyed, these are not military command post being bombed, they are just the homes of the people they would like to wipe out.The government and Janjaweed attacks upon the civilian populace have resulted in a major humanitarian crisis. There are many casualty estimates, most concurring on a range within the hundreds of thousands. The United Nations estimates that the conflict has left as many as 450,000 dead from violence and disease. ^{Other organizations have put a death toll in the millions. Its hard to tell because information is being suppressed by the Sudanese government and 1000’s of bodies lay in mass graves.}

The Sudanese government has been able to obscure much of what has gone on. The mass media once described the conflict as both “ethnic cleansing” and “genocide,” and now do so without hesitation. The United States government has described it as genocide.

The picture to the left is one of a child.

Throughout October 2006 Janjawid militia launched renewed attacks on villages in eastern Chad. These attacks are a direct product of the long-running crisis in Sudan’s neighbouring Darfur region, where the Janjawid militia, backed by the Sudanese government, have been attacking and systematically displacing those ethnic groups associated with Sudanese armed groups opposed to the Sudanese government.

As of July 31st 2007, the UN Security council passed resolution 1769 which authorised the deployment of a much-needed peacekeeping force for the Darfur region of Sudan. Nothing has changed yet and the horrible attacks on civilians are continuing. The UN has  deployed a handful of the peacekeepers needed.

here are some more shocking photos of Darfur

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