People fight for dying Darfur

MARY WISNIEWSKI

Like filmmaker and documentary photographer Mark Brecke, Pepperdine students have a knack for humanitarian causes. His current focus is on Darfur, a region where the Sudanese government and the government-sponsored Janjaweed militia is killing, raping, starving and displacing non-Arabs since February 2003, partially, to arm rebel groups in the region. Although the United States acknowledged the situation as genocide in 2004, the crisis continues.

“Darfur is another culture who has lost their way of life and are targeted by the extermination of their government,” Brecke said.

Since his first visit to Darfur, Brecke said the situation has only deteriorated. He said the Internally Displaced Person camps are run by the government and have increased the violence as well as rapes. Brecke said the rebels are out of control, too.

“People are losing hope,” Brecke said.

Although countries have not come to a consensus in taking collective action to end the violence, many people like Brecke are raising awareness in America, including students. Read more >>>