The next Small World Cinema is on Wednesday 13th May at 7.30pm at the Sumac Centre in Forest Fields, with a documentary on Sudan called Never Again, followed by a discussion organised by members of the Darfurian Community.
This documentary looks at the tragic events occurring in Darfur and reflects on how the international community has failed to learn its lesson. More than ten years after the genocide in Rwanda, the same tragedy is unfolding in Sudan's western region of Darfur and the international community has done nothing to stop it.
After the Rwandan genocide, world leaders said they would never again delay and argue while innocent people were slaughtered. Among the powerful men who committed themselves to act in the future were the President of the United States, the Prime Minister of Britain and the Secretary General of the UN. They were given a chance to show what their promise meant when the government of Sudan began to slaughter its own people. In 2003, after local rebels attacked government forces in Darfur, the state hit back by unleashing Arab militias and sending its air force to bomb civilians. Hundreds of thousands have been killed, thousands of women have been raped and more than two million people driven from their homes, yet since the campaign began, there has been no effective international action to put an end to the killing.
Never Again reveals a story of political manoeuvring, bureaucratic wrangling and extraordinary brutality and considers the pressures on powerful nations as they struggl to forge a response to the tragedy.
After the Rwandan genocide, world leaders said they would never again delay and argue while innocent people were slaughtered. Among the powerful men who committed themselves to act in the future were the President of the United States, the Prime Minister of Britain and the Secretary General of the UN. They were given a chance to show what their promise meant when the government of Sudan began to slaughter its own people. In 2003, after local rebels attacked government forces in Darfur, the state hit back by unleashing Arab militias and sending its air force to bomb civilians. Hundreds of thousands have been killed, thousands of women have been raped and more than two million people driven from their homes, yet since the campaign began, there has been no effective international action to put an end to the killing.
Never Again reveals a story of political manoeuvring, bureaucratic wrangling and extraordinary brutality and considers the pressures on powerful nations as they struggl to forge a response to the tragedy.
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