Not on Our Watch (30 page)

Above: Don and John speaking about the Darfur genocide at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). (
© Bridget Smith
)

Above: People walk for hours through the desert to take water from this well in North Darfur, which has not yet been poisoned or destroyed by the government or the Janjaweed. (
© Mark Brecke
)

Above: Activists in Washington, DC, make a banner on 9 September 2006, the Global Day for Darfur. (
© Lindsay Joiner
)

Above: An exhausted Sudanese mother and her seven children arrive at a refugee camp in eastern Chad. (
© Mark Brecke
)

Above: The kids in the refugee camps are being scarred by violence, hate, and genocide. (
© Sally Chin
)

Above: At a refugee camp in eastern Chad a child’s finger dipped in ink verifies the receipt of a family’s food ration, limited to one per day. (
© Mark Brecke
)

Above: Don and Paul Rusesabagina met with diplomats in the Chadian capital, N’Djamena, before visiting Darfur refugee camps in eastern Chad. The making of the film
Hotel Rwanda
, based on Paul’s heroic true story, was the beginning of Don’s journey out of apathy. (
© Rick Wilkinson
)

Above: Academy Award-winning actor George Clooney, flanked by Senator Barack Obama, right, and Senator Sam Brownback, takes part in a news conference in Washington on 27 April 2006, to raise awareness for Darfur. (
© AP Photo/Mannie Garcia
)

Above: A tense SLA rebel stands guard following a Sudanese army ambush. (
© Mark Brecke
)

Above: This is a genocide victim outside a village called Adwa. Near the body, African Union military observers found a field 50 yards by 50 yards filled with human bones. Many of the mass graves in Darfur may never be found. (
© Brian Steidle
)

Above: A government soldier burns the food surplus in a village called Marla. The residents had fled, and burning the food ensures they won’t come back. All across Darfur, government troops and Janjaweed destroyed food supplies and poisoned wells. (
© Brian Steidle
)