Darfur e George Clooney

«Nearly three years into the crisis, the western Sudanese region of Darfur is acknowledged to be a humanitarian and human rights tragedy of the first order. The humanitarian, security and political situation continue to deteriorate: atrocities continue, people are still dying in large numbers of malnutrition and disease, and a new famine is feared. According to reports by the World Food Program, the United Nations and the Coalition for International Justice, 3.5 million people are now hungry, 2.5 million have been displaced due to violence, and 400,000 people have died in Darfur thus far. The international community is failing to protect civilians or to influence the Sudanese government to do so.»

In http://www.savedarfur.org/situation/current

"If we turn our heads and look away and hope that it will all disappear then they will - all of them, an entire generation of people. And we will have only history left to judge us."

George ClooneyApril 30, 2006, Washington

Chamem-lhe marketing ou oportunismo mediático, o que é certo é que o Sr. Clooney fez mais por uma causa humanitária, que todas as estrelas de Hollywood juntas... Conseguiu mobilizar milhares de pessoas, em Washington, numa manifestação a apelar ao envolvimento politico do governo americano numa solução para a crise no Darfur.

Charme e consciência social... E com isto, o Brad Pitt desce ao segundo lugar, ele que até estava bem cotado, desde que apelou à ajuda humanitária das vítimas do tremor de terra no Paquistão.

E agora quem vai empenhar-se na luta contra a guerra no Iraque? Banderas, Leonardo DiCaprio, Russel Crowe, anyone?