Failure in Sudan….

There was an excellent article about the Failure in Sudan in the last week’s edition of The Economist. Some figures catched my attention….. 2 million people died in the civil war in the last 3 decades and many more millions were displaced. In terms of casualties, it is like having an earthquake in Sudan just like in Pakistan every year, or a tsunami every 3 years…. But in terms of media coverage you can’t even compare these ….. You don’t her about Sudan…There have been global donation conferences for the earthquake, for the tsunami…. All big companies have been involved in the relief donating money…. A lot of countries donated money….. Which is impressive. The question is why only in those cases the world gets together which have a pretty huge media coverage? Why we ignore all the other catastrophes like in Sudan and in the many other parts of the world, where even more people die?

Why we focus only on natural disasters, but not on the disasters created by humans, like wars, poverty and illnesses? Of course I can pull out hundreds of explanations for these questions, they are more rhetorical….

I really would like to have a chat about this with the global leaders….. Mr Bush, Mr. Annan and the others, if you read my blog, you can post your comments!!!