Sudan: Massive Atrocities in Darfur

[Selwynn]

This is an ongoing, but still LBN story:

Sudan: Massive Atrocities in Darfur
Almost One Million Civilians Forcibly Displaced in Government’s Scorched-Earth Campaign

(New York, April 2, 2004) — The Sudanese government is complicit in crimes against humanity committed by government-backed militias in Darfur, Human Rights Watch said today in a new report. In a scorched-earth campaign, government forces and Arab militias are killing, raping and looting African civilians that share the same ethnicities as rebel forces in this western region of Sudan.

The report, “Darfur in Flames: Atrocities in Western Sudan,” describes a government strategy of forced displacement targeting civilians of the non-Arab ethnic communities from which the two main rebel groups—the Sudan Liberation Movement/Army (SLM/A) and the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM)—are mainly drawn. Human Rights Watch found that the military is indiscriminately bombing civilians, while both government forces and militias are systematically destroying villages and conducting brutal raids against the Fur, Masaalit and Zaghawa ethnic groups.

(more)
http://hrw.org/english/docs/2004/04/02/sudan8389.htm

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Of course, the reason we are not acting "preemptively" and "unilaterally" to bring "freedom" and "liberation" to Sudanese people is because they have nothing we want. Don't ever let anyone fool you into the LIE that we went into Iraq because we care about the freedom and happiness of Iraqi people. We intervene when we know there is something for us to gain, and that's currently the only time we intervene, no matter what kinds of atrocities our happening on our (our, as in we are the sole superpower) watch.

[bedtimeforbonzo]

1. Sounds like what we are doing to the Iraqis

so we have no room to complain

[Selwynn]

3. ***I**** have plenty of room to complain, in both cases.

[ACK]

2. While we waste lives in Iraq

A disaster on a Rwanda style scale looms in the Sudan.

I am not a pacifist. I am not a hawk. I understand one of the purposes of the UN was to prevent tragedies like this.

Right now we should be setting down Security Council Mandates and forming a coalition of international troops to prevent the coming genocide.

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[hang a left]

4. But why?

What is to gain? Can someone explain?

[struggle4progress]

5. kick

:kick:

[Eye and Monkey]

6. "they have nothing we want". Incorrect. South Sudan oil and gas.

Alot of gas. Extraction is currently a problem.