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Which One Would You Choose?

By pbingham

As "Mother's Day" approaches, thoughts turn to the powerful bonds of love between mothers and their children.  It is this procession of generations that unites women of all cultures and time periods in our common humanity.

Children and their mothers are currently suffering unspeakable horrors in the ongoing genocide in the Sudan.   The U. S. Department of State Report "Documenting Atrocities in Darfur" includes one mother's account of the day the Jingaweit militia attacked her village, burning  homes and shooting the fleeing villagers from helicopters.    Running to escape the gunfire, she could only carry one child.  She said "You try to take all your children with you but sometimes you can't and have to quickly decide to take one or two of them.  You hope that those able to run will follow you." 

After the learning of the atrocities of the Holocaust, the world's people said "Never again."  It's time to make good on that  resolution.

                                                           http://savedarfur.org/home 

Posted by Patricia Bingham-Harper                              

Full post as published by FSU College of Law Library Blog on May 04, 2006 (boomark / email).