FOREIGN: George Clooney reminds us that the humanitarian crisis in Darfur continues , in an article for The New York Times

The Hollywood Foreign Press did  not err in giving an award for lifetime achievement to George Clooney.

The famous actor, who admitted receiving the Cecil B. DeMille Award at the Golden Globes 2015, his wife Amal Clooney, a lawyer specializing in human rights, was the one who really successful in their relationship reminds us it is not a pretty face, participating in an article published in the New York Times in 

which he denounced the humanitarian crisis in Darfur, a cause that the actor defended for years now, even to meet with President Barack Obama to discuss before making even the US Congress.

"In 2004, the United States has said that Sudan committed genocide," it said in the written podium by George Clooney John Prendergast, co-founder with the performers satelllite Sentinel Project; Akshaya Kumar and a Sudanese political analyst for the Enough Project. "After the peak of interest and concern, the world has largely forgotten Darfur. Unfortunately, this is not the case of the Sudanese government."

The African country is experiencing a civil war since 2011 between the Republic of Sudan and South Sudan, now two separate but unstable states.

George Clooney and his two co-authors cite among other atrocities of mass rape (reported by Human Rights Watch) that took place in the village of Tabit, a "model villages" established with Qatari money to enable displaced people to live.

"Having heard from more than 130 witnesses and survivors by phone, research has found that at least 221 women were raped by soldiers of the Sudanese army on a 36-hour period 

in October," can we read in the gallery. "The peacekeepers tried to investigate these incidents, but were prevented by the government, which allowed them access to the village for short interviews which were made in a climate of intimidation."

Noting that rape by soldiers or police are considered torture by some courts , Clooney, Prendergaast Kumar and insist that given the decline of the intervention of the UN Security Council in the area, it was time to take action (which they do very specific details ) to reduce violence.

" The ' rape as a means of torture" to Tabit must remind the world that the conditions that led the United States to qualify as genocide what is happening in Darfur are still in place , with its share of devastating human consequences, " can -on read in the gallery. "We must not forget the survivors, and we must impose prohibitive costs of their authors and their accomplices. "

Do not worry , George Amal is lucky to have you.

SOURCE: Eonline