Comments on: Guide to Factions and Forces

By: DG

DG — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 01:47:11 +0000

Hey todi sulieman, if you’re from the Darfur area hit me up with an e-mail, I have a few questions… nothing bad, just questions

By: todi sulieman

todi sulieman — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 04:24:54 +0000

I think Darfur need more than what we are doing now to save unnecennce people who facing dathe and rapping dayly ,please let us to do more .thank for your struggling.

By: Farley Tokley

Farley Tokley — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 03:03:33 +0000

Would it be a good idea to have rebels and aid workers build stronghold forts around the wells? I think these locations would be good sites for the sustainable type buildings I saw in your film about Tibet. Solar panels could provide electricity to pump water and the fort itself could double as a refugee camp. Rebel occupied towers in the camp could provide the needed height to spot Janjaweed and keep them at bay.I am assuming that mud brick is a common used building material in Darfur, but I wonder if straw bale construction might be a better fit here.

By: Tim Murphy

Tim Murphy — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 02:10:24 +0000

In the recent Wide Angle entitled Heart of Dafur, a common anesthesia drug, ketamine, was referred to as a “horse sedative.” I felt this description gave the impression that ketamine is not appropriate for human use. In Africa, nothing could be further from the truth. I teach anesthesia physics 2 months a year at a large teaching hospital in Tanzania where ketamine is routinely used by both African and European trained physicians. The drug is safe, effective and appropriate in many applications including the one described in your piece. I am disappointed that the research for Heart of Dafur did not go much beyond a Google search and that it gave the impression that physicians using ketamine were giving substandard care.