The reason to believe a Modern Celebrity with a response to critics called "celebrity tourism".
I like the great think that she says, "with no cameras and with no press, and had the opportunity to have this great education before I spoke at all." A reason to believe to somebody has spent the last six years of her life going to over 30 camps thought Africa,Pakistan,Cambodia and now along the desert border between Darfur and Chad .Jolie's really spending time with these refugees ,many of millions of people driven out of their homes.
Remember that's i'm blog this! for talking about Celeb movie star Angelina Jolie.!
Movie star Angelina Jolie's late February visit to the Oure Cassoni refugee camp along the desert border between Darfur and Chad in the March 19 2007. The camp's 26,000 residents and aid workers live month after month in rough conditions amid constant danger as the war spills into their territory.
Jolie hopes her visit will help focus the world's attention on the war in Darfur and the plight of the refugees.
"If I can draw you in a little because I'm familiar, then that's great," she told Newsweek's Middle East Regional Editor Christopher Dickey after she came back from her visit to the Oure Cassoni camp. "Because I know that at the end you're not looking at me, you're looking at them." Well ... "As long as [you] end up looking at them, that's the point."
Jolie's journey to Oure Cassoni began, in a sense, six years ago, when she was thought of as a sort of Oscar-winning wild child in Hollywood. She says she had read about what the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees does for tens of millions of people driven out of their homes, and became fixated on the idea she had to do something to help. "I remember sitting up for two days straight and reading everything obsessively," she says. When she approached the UNHCR, she adds, "I think they thought I was a little crazy."
Taken on as a good-will ambassador, Jolie traveled to Africa, Pakistan and Cambodia, she says, "with no cameras and with no press, and had the opportunity to have this great education before I spoke at all." Even now, as aid workers on the ground attest, she travels with no entourage. Jolie took a commercial flight to the Chadian capital of N'Djamena (which is in a state of emergency), then traveled with humanitarian staff across the desert to the most remote camp in the country.
Jolie's response to critics who call what she does "celebrity tourism" is matter-of-fact: "I don't know if anybody saying that has spent the last six years of their life going to over 30 camps and really spending time with these people."
LETTER writing by Angelina Jolie (UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador)I like the great think that she says, "with no cameras and with no press, and had the opportunity to have this great education before I spoke at all." A reason to believe to somebody has spent the last six years of her life going to over 30 camps thought Africa,Pakistan,Cambodia and now along the desert border between Darfur and Chad .Jolie's really spending time with these refugees ,many of millions of people driven out of their homes.
Remember that's i'm blog this! for talking about Celeb movie star Angelina Jolie.!
Movie star Angelina Jolie's late February visit to the Oure Cassoni refugee camp along the desert border between Darfur and Chad in the March 19 2007. The camp's 26,000 residents and aid workers live month after month in rough conditions amid constant danger as the war spills into their territory.
Jolie hopes her visit will help focus the world's attention on the war in Darfur and the plight of the refugees.
"If I can draw you in a little because I'm familiar, then that's great," she told Newsweek's Middle East Regional Editor Christopher Dickey after she came back from her visit to the Oure Cassoni camp. "Because I know that at the end you're not looking at me, you're looking at them." Well ... "As long as [you] end up looking at them, that's the point."
Jolie's journey to Oure Cassoni began, in a sense, six years ago, when she was thought of as a sort of Oscar-winning wild child in Hollywood. She says she had read about what the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees does for tens of millions of people driven out of their homes, and became fixated on the idea she had to do something to help. "I remember sitting up for two days straight and reading everything obsessively," she says. When she approached the UNHCR, she adds, "I think they thought I was a little crazy."Taken on as a good-will ambassador, Jolie traveled to Africa, Pakistan and Cambodia, she says, "with no cameras and with no press, and had the opportunity to have this great education before I spoke at all." Even now, as aid workers on the ground attest, she travels with no entourage. Jolie took a commercial flight to the Chadian capital of N'Djamena (which is in a state of emergency), then traveled with humanitarian staff across the desert to the most remote camp in the country.
Jolie's response to critics who call what she does "celebrity tourism" is matter-of-fact: "I don't know if anybody saying that has spent the last six years of their life going to over 30 camps and really spending time with these people."
Justice for Darfur
By Angelina Jolie
Wednesday, February 28, 2007
source Washingtonpost.com
BAHAI, Chad -- Here, at this refugee camp on the border of Sudan, nothing separates us from Darfur but a small stretch of desert and a line on a map. All the same, it's a line I can't cross. As a representative of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, I have traveled into Darfur before, and I had hoped to return. But the UNHCR has told me that this camp, Oure Cassoni, is as close as I can get.
Sticking to this side of the Sudanese border is supposed to keep me safe. By every measure -- killings, rapes, the burning and looting of villages -- the violence in Darfur has increased since my last visit, in 2004. The death toll has passed 200,000; in four years of fighting, Janjaweed militia members have driven 2.5 million people from their homes, including the 26,000 refugees crowded into Oure Cassoni.
It wasn't until June 2005 that the ICC began to investigate. By then the campaign of violence was well underway.
As the prosecutions unfold, I hope the international community will intervene, right away, to protect the people of Darfur and prevent further violence. The refugees don't need more resolutions or statements of concern. They need follow-through on past promises of action.
There has been a groundswell of public support for action. People may disagree on how to intervene -- airstrikes, sending troops, sanctions, divestment -- but we all should agree that the slaughter must be stopped and the perpetrators brought to justice.
In my five years with UNHCR, I have visited more than 20 refugee camps in Sierra Leone, Congo, Kosovo and elsewhere. I have met families uprooted by conflict and lobbied governments to help them. Years later, I have found myself at the same camps, hearing the same stories and seeing the same lack of clean water, medicine, security and hope.
It has become clear to me that there will be no enduring peace without justice. History shows that there will be another Darfur, another exodus, in a vicious cycle of bloodshed and retribution. But an international court finally exists. It will be as strong as the support we give it. This might be the moment we stop the cycle of violence and end our tolerance for crimes against humanity.
What the worst people in the world fear most is justice. That's what we should deliver.
The writer is a goodwill ambassador for the United Nations High Commission for Refugees.
Attacks on aid workers are rising, another reason I was told to stay out of Darfur. By drawing attention to their heroic work -- their efforts to keep refugees alive, to keep camps like this one from being consumed by chaos and fear -- I would put them at greater risk.
I've seen how aid workers and nongovernmental organizations make a difference to people struggling for survival. I can see on workers' faces the toll their efforts have taken. Sitting among them, I'm amazed by their bravery and resilience. But humanitarian relief alone will never be enough.
Until the killers and their sponsors are prosecuted and punished, violence will continue on a massive scale. Ending it may well require military action. But accountability can also come from international tribunals, measuring the perpetrators against international standards of justice.
Accountability is a powerful force. It has the potential to change behavior -- to check aggression by those who are used to acting with impunity. Luis Moreno-Ocampo, chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), has said that genocide is not a crime of passion; it is a calculated offense. He's right. When crimes against humanity are punished consistently and severely, the killers' calculus will change.
On Monday I asked a group of refugees about their needs. Better tents, said one; better access to medical facilities, said another. Then a teenage boy raised his hand and said, with powerful simplicity, "Nous voulons une épreuve." We want a trial. He is why I am encouraged by the ICC's announcement yesterday that it will prosecute a former Sudanese minister of state and a Janjaweed leader on charges of crimes against humanity.
Some critics of the ICC have said indictments could make the situation worse. The threat of prosecution gives the accused a reason to keep fighting, they argue. Sudanese officials have echoed this argument, saying that the ICC's involvement, and the implication of their own eventual prosecution, is why they have refused to allow U.N. peacekeepers into Darfur.
It is not clear, though, why we should take Khartoum at its word. And the notion that the threat of ICC indictments has somehow exacerbated the problem doesn't make sense, given the history of the conflict. Khartoum's claims aside, would we in America ever accept the logic that we shouldn't prosecute murderers because the threat of prosecution might provoke them to continue killing?
When I was in Chad in June 2004, refugees told me about systematic attacks on their villages. It was estimated then that more than 1,000 people were dying each week.
In October 2004 I visited West Darfur, where I heard horrific stories, including accounts of gang-rapes of mothers and their children. By that time, the UNHCR estimated, 1.6 million people had been displaced in the three provinces of Darfur and 200,000 others had fled to Chad.
I've seen how aid workers and nongovernmental organizations make a difference to people struggling for survival. I can see on workers' faces the toll their efforts have taken. Sitting among them, I'm amazed by their bravery and resilience. But humanitarian relief alone will never be enough.
Until the killers and their sponsors are prosecuted and punished, violence will continue on a massive scale. Ending it may well require military action. But accountability can also come from international tribunals, measuring the perpetrators against international standards of justice.
Accountability is a powerful force. It has the potential to change behavior -- to check aggression by those who are used to acting with impunity. Luis Moreno-Ocampo, chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), has said that genocide is not a crime of passion; it is a calculated offense. He's right. When crimes against humanity are punished consistently and severely, the killers' calculus will change.
On Monday I asked a group of refugees about their needs. Better tents, said one; better access to medical facilities, said another. Then a teenage boy raised his hand and said, with powerful simplicity, "Nous voulons une épreuve." We want a trial. He is why I am encouraged by the ICC's announcement yesterday that it will prosecute a former Sudanese minister of state and a Janjaweed leader on charges of crimes against humanity.
Some critics of the ICC have said indictments could make the situation worse. The threat of prosecution gives the accused a reason to keep fighting, they argue. Sudanese officials have echoed this argument, saying that the ICC's involvement, and the implication of their own eventual prosecution, is why they have refused to allow U.N. peacekeepers into Darfur.
It is not clear, though, why we should take Khartoum at its word. And the notion that the threat of ICC indictments has somehow exacerbated the problem doesn't make sense, given the history of the conflict. Khartoum's claims aside, would we in America ever accept the logic that we shouldn't prosecute murderers because the threat of prosecution might provoke them to continue killing?
When I was in Chad in June 2004, refugees told me about systematic attacks on their villages. It was estimated then that more than 1,000 people were dying each week.
In October 2004 I visited West Darfur, where I heard horrific stories, including accounts of gang-rapes of mothers and their children. By that time, the UNHCR estimated, 1.6 million people had been displaced in the three provinces of Darfur and 200,000 others had fled to Chad.
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