The world choose not to know about what happened in Darfur. Busy fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, not willing to jeopardize relationships with the Chinese, and lack of knowledge amongst the general public. It all allowed the Europeans and Americans to do nothing to save the lives of 450.000 people, and to help the millions of ‘internally displaced people’ living in camps.

Yesterday, I went to see the documentary ‘Sand and Sorrow‘, about the genocide that took place in Darfur. It was organized by several Radboud University-organizations, amongst which the Nijmegen part of STAND, a student awareness movement which originated in the United States. The footage, music, images, and voice-over by George Clooney all cumulated to a single message: it is happening right now, and humanity did what is always done: virtually nothing.