Don't Believe Khartoum for a Second
By Andrew L. Jaffee, July 3, 2004
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The Sudanese government has “pledged” to disarm Arab militias who have been carrying out horrific atrocities against Black Africans in the country’s western region of Darfur. Don’t believe it for a second. This is the same Sudanese government who has backed the Arab thugs in their campaign of ethnic cleansing, razing entire villages, mass rape, abductions of children, and forced starvation. According to the BBC,

…a spokeswoman for Human Rights Watch warned that Sudan's government "rarely ever" honoured its promises.

"Their track record is very poor. They prefer to promise... and later go to do whatever they set out to do to begin with."

King Weasel, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, has just visited Sudan and, despite all evidence to the contrary, refuses to term Sudan’s actions as a “genocide, which would entail a legal obligation for the international community to take action.” Oh, God forbid we do anything about ethnic cleansing. I suppose Annan is happy to watch the UN sit by and do nothing like it did during the Rwanda genocide. The United Nations Human Rights Commission has expressed solidarity with Sudan’s government – the same government that sponsors rape, mass murder, and ethnic cleansing.

When Arabs commit ethnic cleansing, it’s merely a slight “problem.” When Israel defends itself from terrorism, it is “genocide.”

Thank goodness the US has taken a much more active role in the western Sudan. Secretary of State Colin Powell visited Darfur on June 30 and was mobbed by grateful Black African refugees. (So much for “everyone hates America.”) Powell hasn’t been afraid to use the word “genocide.” The US has pushed the UN to condemn Sudan’s atrocities, but its attempts have been foiled at every turn by the United Nations’ vast legions of dictatorships. The US can’t do everything. We’re already cleaning up Afghanistan, Iraq, the Philippines, etc., and standing steadfast behind Israel. Just where the hell are French, Canadian, German, Egyptian, etc., troops in all this? They aren’t lifting a damn finger to help the poor people in Darfur.

This Sudanese Arab ethnic cleansing campaign has left 10,000 dead, driven one million people from their homes, and threatens 300,000 to one million more with starvation. Where’s the outrage? Where are the UN resolutions? Where are the peacekeeping troops? Nowhere. We live in an upside-down world.



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