Just one more quick note -
Many of you have expressed concerns about our use of using names and specific details regarding the people we interviewed. All of you are absolutely correct that this does pose some danger for the people we talked to. I don’t think it would place them in more trouble with the government than they are already in, but Scott and I share you concerns.
Because of this, Scott has just gone through and changed as many of the names as we could find. I don’t think this will detract from the value of the blog at all.
Thanks for your suggestions and for thinking about the situation critically.
Colin
Hi all,
So we completed our first full day in N’Djamena, Chad, and will be taking off for the east tomorrow. Just to re-iterate, we’ll be blogging on a daily basis at: http://www.stopgenocidenow.org/iact/iact5. Please check out that site daily, for both our entries and an accompanying video. I’ll cross blog everything afterwards, but while we’re in the camps, please visit the other site.
For people who have not visited the site yet (I know STAND just sent out a newsletter about it), feel free to browse our previous entries on Zimbabwe and Kenya. If you have questions or comments, let us know and we’ll respond! We hope this blog is informative, and let us know what more information you’d like to hear.
Scott
Just to re-emphasize what Colin said below: We’ll be traveling throughout refugee camps in Chad the next two weeks. We’ll be posting videos and some posts, but will mostly be doing so from
www.stopgenocidenow.org and http://www.stopgenocidenow.org/iact/iact5. We might also cross-post here, but I’m not exactly sure. So keep posted on that blog, because most of our info will be coming through there. As always, let us know if you have any questions or comments!
Hey all -
Thanks for all your great comments and emails already, we’ll definitely be sure to get back to you all later tonight.
Before we head out to town I just wanted to say that sometimes the blog has been cutting off some of our posts and working a little weird. If that’s the case for you, you’re best bet is just to hit the refresh button a few times until it starts working.
More updates to follow!
Colin