Sudan update and three movie recommendations.

In three days I have seen three really hard movies to watch, Dirty, Pretty Things; Maria, Full of Grace and Hotel Rwanda. After that and looking at information about Sudan, it's been a heavy week. I know that if I tried to explain the movies on this blog that I would not do them justice so I will just say that if you are interested in illegal immigration, drug trafficking with teenage girls as "mules" (swallowing drugs, then traveling with them in their stomachs) and UN politics (repectively) then you must see these movies.
The most noticeble common theme in these movies is survival and self-reliance. These people have learned (in the hardest way possible) that they have only themselves in this world, especially when they are dealing with the "first world." Even today I read an article from Monday's NYTimes that Sudan is not receiving nearly the amount of aid promised to them and that this is interferring with the Peace Accords that were just recently signed. This funding was promised to help rebuild the entire state of Sudan, not only the Darfur region. If you aren't familiar with the agreement here's some background from the same NYTimes article. "The islamic government in Khartoum and rebels from the Christian and animist south signed the peace agreement of Jan. 9, ending a 21- year war that the United Nations estimates cost one and a half million lives and forced four million people to flee their homes." These Peace Accords are really important for the furthering of the action against African genocide and violence but are incredibly underfunded. According to the New York Times "only $25 million of the $500 million pledged last October for the south had been received and that the half dozen United Nations agencies and 30 outside aid groups had underused capacity because of the shortfall" Official Jan Egeland said this in response, "'my people have built up very dramatically in anticipation that the money will be coming because they simply cannot believe that the donor community will not assist them'" It is sadly ironic how similar this situation is to the one portrayed in Hotel Rwanda. Again, I have no solutions or even ideas for solutions, but I'm looking. If I find one, I will let you all know.