Getting Americans to care about human-rights atrocities half-a-world away is hard. Getting them fired up about confronting the corruption that fuels those slaughters is an order of magnitude harder. But that’s what actor George Clooney and human-rights activist John Prendergast are aiming to do with their new project, The Sentry. “You can’t shame war criminals,” explains Clooney. But, he says, “You can shame people in the international community: banks and bankers, lawyers. There’s a lot of people that you can shame who don’t want to be associated with atrocities.” That’s where The Sentry comes in. Building off their partnership with the Satellite Sentinel, which deployed real-time satellite images to detect troop movements and stop slaughters before they occur, this new initiative aims at the roots of much of the current conflicts in South Sudan—not ethnic rivalry but greed. To get you up to speed, here’s the current state of South Sudan as explained by Prendergast, founder of the Enough Project. “The president kicked the vice president out of the country in mid-2013, principally because they wanted to make sure that their faction could have all of the opportunities for corruption. So once the vice president and his faction were kicked… Read full this story
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