The Sudan Genocide (Nat Hentoff)

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Arab Muslims Are Viciously Killing and Raping Black Muslims. So Where Is the World?

In a BBC interview on March 19, the U.N. humanitarian coordinator in Sudan, Mukesh Kapila, said of the genocide in Darfur that it is "the world's greatest humanitarian crisis, and I don't know why the world isn't doing more about it. . . . The only difference between Rwanda and Darfur now is the numbers involved."

The Arab killers and rapists in Darfur are Muslims, and so are the victims—black African farmers. The Arabs are herdsmen, and have been competing for water, forage, and the land itself with the African farmers. Sudan's government is supporting the Arab Janjaweed militia's ferocious intent to make Darfur, in the west of Sudan, "Zurga-free." That term is the equivalent of "nigger" used by white racists. It also echoes the Nazis' mission to make Europe "judenfrei"—Jew-free.

The Sudan Genocide....

[SeattleDem]

1. indeed, where is the world?

I wrote an LTE last week about this. All the pro-Iraq war factions who tried to silence those of us against the invasion by saying we must like genocidal rulers like Saddam - where are their voices now???

Unlike Iraq, the genocide in Sudan is happening NOW and we can do something about it. Why aren't they all screaming for their fine leader Bush to do something? Is it the lack of oil in Sudan?

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2. People care less about the victims and more about the killers.

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[Dirk39]

3. Are we so much better?

than the pro-Iraq war factions?
Watch the amount of answers you got here at DU.

I simply don't know, what to do.
The food-organisations have brought plenty of food down there, but they have no chance to give it to the people.

Apart from the abstract question, why the PNAC's don't intervene in Sudan, although it's the right one, what can we do?

Maybe a few hundred soldiers or UN-troops or just a bit of pressure from our allmighty governments in the USA and Europe could stop this.

Hello from Germany,
Dirk

On edit: some links:

Sudan: Government Commits ‘Ethnic Cleansing’ in Darfur
http://www.worldrevolution.org/article/1372


Sudan: After the War, the Food Crisis
http://www.worldrevolution.org/article/1345

Sudan 'atrocity' report withheld
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/3648451.stm

Sudan: Massive Atrocities in Darfur
http://www.worldrevolution.org/article/1192

Sudan: The Passion of the Present
http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/passionofthepresent/

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4. Was thinking the same thing

Everyone is jumping on Israel that has been fighting for its survival for over 50 years, but when Syria's Assad and, yes Iraq's Hussein and now the Sudan kill thousands of people - one can hear the thundering silence.

Where are all the European college students to protest the brutality of the Arabs in the Sudan? Oh, forgot. As reported on "60 minutes" 10% of the French population is Arab.

What about the "left" in this country?

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5. Did you see Nick Cohen's "Human Rights on Trial"?

Human rights on trial

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6. Very informative. Thanks n/t