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| Africa: Subsaharan |
| Sudan a Painful Crisis — Help is On The Way |
| 2005-02-08 |
| Article deleted. You want attention, Crystle, find it somewhere else, but don't advertise here, or else we'll send 'Boris' your way. |
| Posted by:Crystal Broyles |
| #5 Oops-that was me. |
| Posted by: Jules 187 2005-02-08 10:36:27 AM |
| #4 BAR-Let's call their bluff. We offer to supply x% of the military forces to enforce humane treatment and resettlement of black Sudanese by the Sudanese government, IN CONJUNCTION WITH X% of forces which the EU or AU can supply. Make an offer of military assistance; if the EU shies away, which Euros will no doubt do because they don't believe in military interventions, then it will become one more pony show of international concern, in which case I say, let'm get the limelight and handle it themselves. [Crickets chirping...is anybody there?} |
| Posted by: AMA 2005-02-08 10:36:00 AM |
| #3 Will we wait and only act after hundreds of thousands more Sudanese have been killed,.. Here's a suggestion: get the EU to do something, anything, besides talk about it. After all, it's in their backyard, and we're busy at the moment. When that happens, then start talking about something that "we" can do about the problem. |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2005-02-08 10:19:00 AM |
| #2 Crystal, you are on the right track, but your numbers are out by an order of magnitude. Nobody knows how many have been killed in Sudan over the last twenty years but it is in the millions perhaps as high as 5 million. I find it striking that regular coverage of Dafur started 6 months ago with '70,000 deaths' that number didn't change for months and was regulary quoted then the media stopped quoting a death figure even though its clear a lot more people have died. If you genuinely want to solve this problem then start with the media's digraceful coverage of this issue. |
| Posted by: phil_b 2005-02-08 9:39:41 AM |
| #1 Hmm.... Why does the MSM give the people who took that school in russa a pass and refuses to mention that they were all muslim (Islamics)? And also fails to mention that they bayonetted babies and took young girls off to rooms to be gang-raped? Why did the MSM give Saddam's rape rooms, rape squads, people shreaddrs and mass graves a 'pass' while getting all hell-bent about a few idiots in a prison? Why does the MSM refuse to have any stories about human rights abuses in Iran - wasn't a 11 year old boy whipped to death for eating during ramada? Could it be becuse these items are comitted by... Muslim? And in the case of Sudan, Arab Muslims who are oppressing the Black muslims to take their land and because they are 'black' (with a heart like that of a donkey according to the Islamic holy scrptures)? And the MSM is giving them a free pass? When was the last time you saw the MSM go after Muslims states? |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2005-02-08 9:27:50 AM |