Wednesday, July 05, 2006

Remember Darfur, anyone?


We must not allow the slaughter in Sudan to fall off the radar.

It has been suggested on this blog that we have had too much about Iraq, too much about Israel and too much attacking Bush and Blair. Well here is a blog post that is not about any of them, yet is a major international issue.

It is a country with substantial oil reserves that has a genocide problem, a genocide problem that isn't going away and is not being addressed. The crisis has overrun its borders, causing instability in neighbouring countries and hundreds of thousands of people have died whilst the government has either taken part or turned a blind eye.

The international community is fully informed, in particular the permanent five of the UN security council. It was the American secretary of state, Colin Powell, that used the word "genocide", and they often refuse to use that word in case it requires action. (Rwanda is the prime example of semantics at the state department leading to inaction at the UN.) Read the full article >>>

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