More on Darfur

by Chris Bertram on May 21, 2004

The Scotsman has a cluster of reports on Darfur, “starting here”:http://news.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=578622004 , which also contains many links to other reports including the one from “Human Rights Watch”:http://www.hrw.org/reports/2004/sudan0504/ .

bq. “The aim is to kill as many people as possible and drive the remainder from their lands, destroying the fabric of rural society,” reports the specialist journal Africa Confidential. “Proxy militias torch villages and exterminate villagers, slaughtering livestock and poisoning wells with corpses to prevent residents returning. Gang rape of women (often branded afterwards) and children reinforces the terror and helps to produce an ‘Arab’ next generation. Abduction is widespread in Darfur, with groups of women flown away by helicopter.”

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Barry 05.21.04 at 3:11 pm

Any minute now, Real Soon Now, those Evil violators of human rights will be feeling what a GPS-guided JDAM feels like, as a coalition of local militia’s, US Special Forces and USAF/Naval Aviation give those slavers and gang-rapists a taste of God-sent anti-terrorist death and destruction.

Right?

After all, didn’t we invade Iraq for human rights and democracy?

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Dave F 05.24.04 at 11:20 am

Glad you find it amusing Barry. The fact is that although this constitutes an immediate humanitarian crisis, not to mention “ongoing” the UN has decided the proper course is to pass it on to the “Human Rights Commission” — of which Sudan is just one Arab member — rather than ensuring it gets before the security council. The issue of the Gaza incursion and demolitions, propelled by furious Arab members, was on the table of that body within 48 hours of its commencement.

Since the Americans are rather tied up at the moment militarywise, perhaps the world body should be demonstrating how multilateralism really really works in this instance. At the moment it is demonstrating the opposite.

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