Friday, December 03, 2010

George Clooney in South Sudan - Part Three

Abyei - Perilous journey, border, oil, But Abyei is the South and the South is Abyei.

SPLA soldiers are taking care of Clooney and his group.

Abyei was destroyed by the northern soldiers two years ago. Pregnant women were burned to death, old women were raped. Endless stories of atrocities.

The people are ready fight and die for independence.
They will never surrender. They will never give up Abyei. They will die. Not run away.

Return to Juba. U.N. Security Council is coming in. Susan Rice arrives.

Salva!! He tells Ann Curry about the tanks of the north that are building up.

Clooney is using his fame to help Sudan.

Clooney and John Prendergast do a P.R. tour, "blanketing the air waves."
I hope he will reach out the conservative media, too, though.
Private audience with Obama. Long meeting.

Now Clooney is at the U.N. white House received 50,000 emails during the media blitz. Bashir says Clooney is "beating the drums of war." Pah.

2 comments:

Mrs. Van Dusen said...

He is not beating the drums of war, he is REPORTING on the beating of the drums of war.

Lenten Pilgrim said...

Hi Kathleen: Yes, I know that George C. is not beating the drums of war. But that is what Omar el Bashir said he was doing. Throughout the genocide in South Sudan (before Darfur for those who have only become literate on Sudan since 2003 or so), whenever American advocates, Congress, President Bush, whoever did something in the interest of peace and to help South Sudan Bashir said that they were the ones who wanted war. Sure, he doesn't want war, he wants PEACE. If PEACE means submission to Sharia. He wants unity, if unity means Arabization of all the black, African people of Sudan!