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Add the andPOP Facebook Application(andPOP) - Taking time off from entertaining the world’s youth with tales of wizards and witches, J.K Rowling and other prominent children’s writers published a letter calling for an end to the conflict in Darfur.
Just in time for the fifth anniversary of the ongoing civil feud in the Sudanese region, which has taken the lives of 200,000 people, the writers’ open letter appeared in newspapers in Britain on Saturday.
"It is time to change the narrative," the letter says, according to CBC.ca.
"The world needs to wake up. For too long it has let these children suffer. Our politicians need to act on Darfur."
The letter was written as a part of Sunday’s Global Day for Darfur, an international effort calling for an immediate ceasefire in the region and the deployment of a UN peacekeeping force.
"Children in Darfur draw pictures of bombs and guns," the authors write. "It is all they have ever known. Childhood is under attack in Darfur."
It is estimated that more than one million Sudanese children have been affected by the constant violence the conflict has caused.
The letter concludes with a definitive and moving statement:
"The world needs to act now to give the children of Darfur a future."
