Darfur: US and UN could stop the slaughter

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by Mumia Abu-Jamal

It’s happening again.

As we speak, hundreds of thousands of people are being herded into deadly concentration camps, and tens of thousands of others are being forced to flee - to make hellish death marches under a searing sun, seeking a moment’s shade and rest.

These people are under relentless assault by murderous bands of rapists and thieves backed by a central government, and the governments of the West, including the U.S. and the U.N., can barely raise a murmur in protest.

What is happening is the attempted “ethnic cleansing” of the indigenous people of the Darfur region in western Sudan, who have been subjected to the venomous attacks of terrorist militias called the Janjawid, who are armed, paid and aimed by the military regime in Khartoum.

Darfur: US and UN could stop the slaughter....