Reader Comments of the Week: Sudan
Each week the Hot Zone team will select some of the more interesting reader comments to feature.
By Hot Zone Team, Fri Oct 28, 4:11 PM ET
"Wow! Just started reading your reports today. I've read comments about your possibly making a documentary, great idea. Also, I'm a homeschool teacher, and I plan on working in your reports as part of our curriculum-something you can't find in a textbook! Great for current events! Thank you for sharing with all of us what we so many times close our eyes to."
Posted by annetteyw@sbcglobal.net on Thu, Oct 27, 2005 10:12 AM ET
"I believe that perspective should be taken from both sides and that kevin's reportning is biased. I remember that people do say a lot of cruel things to get points across. As a so called "North" Sudanese I live with a "South" Sudanese and we both don't look at our color, religious, and tribal orientation to know who we are- We are Sudanese and that is it! ..."
Posted by md560 on Fri, Oct 28, 2005 6:24 AM ET
"Thanks to Kevin for being there and Yahoo for keeping us informed. I do not hold out a lot of hope for the Sudan because different ethnic/religious groups find it very difficult to combine into a single political entity. It is not just Africa, look at N. Ireland or Bosnia. At least if we know what is happening we have some hope of bringing pressure to stop fighting and some hope of bring relief to the people."
Posted by juliashelly on Wed, Oct 26, 2005 12:58 PM ET
"Why do people always try to blame the evils of the world on religion and racism? The majority of Muslims, Christians, Jews, etc are peace loving. I live and work in an area where there are several races who all tend to get along. I think that ignorance and greed are the main reasons that all this has happened and is still happening. Only through educating people and promoting racial/religious tolerance will we ever get beyond the suffering and war."
Posted by sierra33ok on Thu, Oct 27, 2005 11:55 AM ET
Women of Little Value, Oct. 27
"The relationship between the value of women and cattle in southern Sudan is really far more complicated than what a journalist can express in a single story. While women have always occupied a seccondary class status in Sudan, "modernization" has actually served to increase their misery insted of alieviate it. ..."
Posted by teppi109 on Thu, Oct 27, 2005 10:55 AM ET
"This is a great example of how education is the key to freedom. It is heartening to see that women are being educated more now than in the past, however, they are still considered property. The fact that a man can hit any woman for any reason and have the woman punished for it shows the level of inhumanity these women face every day. Until women in Africa obtain equal rights the country will continue to decline. Thank you, Kevin, for your hard work and for spreading the word about the injustices in Africa: political, social, and personal."
Posted by lori_h_graves on Thu, Oct 27, 2005 12:18 PM ET
"I've enjoyed reading your articles but this one illustrates your ignorance and bias. You truely show your tourist credentials when you diss a local culture about which you know very little. Dinka are a proud people, and quite capable. They love their wives, their children, and their cows. You're better when you report and not editorialize."
Posted by eastafricanet on Thu, Oct 27, 2005 11:17 AM ET
"This story should receive ten stars, not five. I am a naturalized female American citizen and have seen and experienced one part of the oppression of women. Not once is oppression acceptable on any front. All individuals should be accepted for who they are, not how they are viewed to be for any reason."
Posted by welplorraine on Thu, Oct 27, 2005 7:27 PM ET
"The smiles are what I find most profound. I find it difficult to smile when I get stuck in traffic, or the line at McDonalds is too long, or my favorite TV show is preempted by Bush telling me that everything is going exactly as planned, or when I have to pay $3 a gallon to fill up my SUV ... To lose everything and still find humor in your life takes character, and if I'm learning anything from this series it is the strength of the human character. I look forward to reading your post every day."
Posted by jkinnard on Fri, Oct 28, 2005 11:36 AM ET
"Kevin, thank you for the inciteful messages. We must remember that this is a time for rebuilding for this country. The war is over, and hope is to come. It may be difficult...actually we all know it is going to be difficult; and yes, many deaths are to come from this, but hopefully good is going to come from this. I can only pray that more organizations will step in and help set up shelters, watering holes, and food. Maybe this is a turning point for the Sudanese people."
Posted by krivera_gagnon on Fri, Oct 28, 2005 10:14 AM ET
"Is there no beauty in the lives on which you report? Where is the undercurrent of life, humanity, and culture. My guess is that these aspects would manifest themselves strongly in balance to the intensity that you portray in your reports."
Posted by cgib55 on Fri, Oct 28, 2005 10:28 AM ET
"The beauty is everywhere in the war torn countries, in the smiles they smile, in the hope they portray for the future. In wanting to keep the baby that was implanted in them against their will."
Posted by tinaalaca on Fri, Oct 28, 2005 11:02 AM ET
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