EFL
Human rights activists are calling the world’s attention to bloodshed in western Sudan, where the government is accused of resorting to murder and rape of thousands of civilians in a campaign to put down a rebellion. Sudan’s government has limited aid groups’ and journalists’ access to Darfur, where local tribes have been in revolt since early 2003. Much of the information on the violence comes from Sudanese refugees in neighboring Chad. "The government strategy of closing this off and trying to make it invisible, so far, is working," said Leslie Lefkow, who recently traveled to Chad to study the situation in Sudan for Human Rights Watch. "You don’t have the photographs of the dead children and women who have been gang raped. That I think would spur more attention."
| he said, as the world yawned. |
Jan Egeland, U.N. undersecretary-general for humanitarian affairs, has said Arab militia groups, reportedly with government backing, are engaged in "ethnic cleansing, but not genocide" against Africans in Darfur. Egeland called the situation "one of the most forgotten and neglected humanitarian crises."
| My guess is that the corpses think of it as genocide, but then maybe there aren't enough of them... |
Sudanese government officials, Lefkow said in an interview, seem to think they can act with impunity in Darfur because the world’s attention is focused elsewhere, including an unrelated and longer-standing rebellion in southern Sudan. "I hope that we can prove them wrong," she said.
State Department deputy spokesman Adam Ereli said Tuesday the United States has dispatched personnel to western Sudan to facilitate humanitarian aid deliveries and promote settlement discussions between the government and Sudanese rebels.
"if we keep the discussions going long enough, we can wipe em ALL out"
A pro-government human rights activist dismissed a Human Rights Watch report last month that laid much of the blame on the government as "mere falsifications and lies compiled by intelligence hirelings."
and they should know better than most. after all, Sudan is on the UN’s Human Rights Committee! REALLY!
The Human Rights Watch report said indiscriminate bombing, raids by the independent ethnic Arab militia and the army against mainly African villages and denial of humanitarian aid amount to "a strategy of ethnic-based murder, rape and forcible displacement of civilians in Darfur." Lefkow, who helped prepare the report, says thousands have died. U.N. figures say 750,000 people have been displaced inside Sudan and tens of thousands have fled into Chad.
So here’s a story about ruthlessness and evil being perpetrated on muslims BY muslims. The victims suffer 10 times worse than palestinians. Further, atrocities like these ABSOLUTELY permeate the muslim world. Yet it is Israel who is vilified for its, by comparison, tame treatment of palestinians in its attempts to protect its citizens from terror.
furthermore, I suspect this will get VERY little media attention. |