His Excellency Mr. Warren W. Tichenor

This being one of my first international letters written to address the issue in Sudan, I felt uncomfortable becoming too demanding in my wording. I find the more letters I write to people in high governmental positions, I find myself in a unique place to critique their work. Finding ways to write people is easy enough, but making those ways forceful and still effective is a task not so easily done. This particular letter is written in a style that makes it fairly obvious I know nothing about Mr. Tichenor's position as an Ambassador for the US Mission to the United Nations in Geneva, but I thought the pursuit of learning how to write more efficient letters was worth the effort.

Written: November 14th, 2007.

November 14, 2007

His Excellency Mr. Warren W. Tichenor
Ambassador
Permanent Representative
Route de Pregny 11
1292 Chambesy
Geneva, Switzerland

Your Excellency:

I appreciate your time in reading my letter of concern for the people of Darfur. I understand your time is limited, but the content of this message is sent with a significantly important request for your help. With the innocent people of Sudan and the surrounding countries affected by the unending violence having no voice in the political realm of our world, I feel it is my duty to express their voices so that they may be heard.

If the people of these countries could talk, you would hear stories of tragedy, heartbreak and utterly horrific scenarios being described in the calmest of manners. Their tragedies are unparalleled while their homes are destroyed. Children are taken from their families to be manipulated, tortured, drugged and taught to fight their own people. These are learned behaviors. These are behaviors that can easily be prevented with strong words of wisdom and measures taken to ensure the safety of civilians by ensuring the continuation of humanitarian aid relief workers. Understandably, I would assume you already know these things. So why is nothing being done to prevent further actions of this nature?

The world is our problem, we have single-handedly as a human species deteriorated it in more ways than one could think possible, but to turn a blind eye away from the problems will never solve nor eliminate their long term effects on the innocent lives that are taken each and every day.

I urge you to use your influence and wisdom in the position that you have gained over the years to look inside yourself and find the difference between petty matters of little consequence to the actions you could provide that would save the lives and limbs of the people in developing countries fraught with violence such as the Sudan, Chad, Eritrea and Ethiopia. Ukraine, Congo, Iraq, Afghanistan.

Rwanda, Bosnia, Iran or China. The list continues and daily grows larger. Continued attacks of genocide and mass atrocities go unchallenged and unscathed because no one in the position to stop them will use their influence.

On behalf of the people of these countries, I again urge you to use your influence in whatever ways you find can be done. Whether that is making a few calls to organize the security for relief workers, or advocating more strongly for the acceptance of stronger policies enforcing action to be enacted in the United Nation’s Missions work. You are not alone in this fight, there are people who need your guidance and will follow your lead in taking the first step towards ending genocide.

Please take the first step. The world depends on your courage to stand up.

Regards,




Sara L. Cartwright
1440 10th Street #207
Bellingham, WA 98225
United States of America