Sudan's Department of Gang Rape - By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF

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Sudan's Department of Gang Rape

By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF
Published: November 22, 2005
Kalma Camp, Sudan

"When the Arab men in military uniforms caught Noura Moussa and raped her the other day, they took the trouble to explain themselves.

"We cannot let black people live in this land," she remembers them telling her, and they used racial epithets against blacks, called her a slave, and added: "We can kill any members of African tribes."


The Forgotten Genocide Ms. Noura is one of thousands of women and girls to be gang-raped in Darfur, as part of what appears to be a deliberate Sudanese government policy to break the spirit of several African tribes through mass rape.


..... SNIP"

http://select.nytimes.com/2005/11/22/opinion/22kristof.html

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1. It seems to me the US will just look worse and worse if they do

not show leadership and intensity on this. How could you fight a pre-emptive war and ignore genocide?

Why are they using - it seems - such soft power on Darfur and ignore the soft power in other cases.

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2. Kristof is like a dog with a bone where Sudan is concerned

He just will not let it go--bless him.

At least SOMEBODY is reporting on these things--unlike CNN who wasted an hour or more on a corporate jet today. (Not that I am uncaring about the people in the jet, who are fellow human beings after all. But that story is not the same as the story of people who are being blithely abandoned to a fate like that of the people of Sudan.)

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3. Yes. At least there is him. And a few other groups. I can only take

so much but dammned if I will not post like stories here.