Sasun Posted June 3, 2004 Report Share Posted June 3, 2004 Here is an opportunity for "benevolent" Western powers to save a million human lives. Particularly, this is applies to the most benevolent, most eager and most powerful to do "justice" in the world - the USA. Everything should be allowed to do, including defying the UN and blame it for inactivity, threaten the country (Sudan) for use of force, brand it as part of axis of evil, finally invade the country, topple the government and hunt everyone responsible for atrocities that have been committed and stop more attrocities. Here is a chance to spend billions of US tax dollars to save innocent civilan people, this time it is a real, imminent danger, there is no ideology involved, no need to fabricate evidence and look for non-existent weapons. It is plain and simple - save a million human lives urgently, now do your best, or just be the hypocrite and have stupid excuses after the fact... UN and US warn that huge toll in Darfur crisis is now inevitable GENEVA (AFP) - A humanitarian crisis of enormous proportions is now inevitable in western Sudan's Darfur region and up to one million people could die if aid cannot be delivered there swiftly, international officials warned. "We estimate right now if we get relief in, we'll lose a third of a million people, and if we don't the death rates could be dramatically higher, approaching a million people," US Agency for International Development (USAID) chief Andrew Natsios predicted after a high-level UN aid meeting. More than one million African civilians have been forced to flee their homes because of an onslaught by government-backed Arab militia and Sudanese troops in Darfur over the past year, and atrocities are continuing, the United Nations said. The United States, European Union (news - web sites), France and the UN warned Khartoum that it must put a stop to atrocities by militia in the strife-torn region, and iron out "severe restrictions" which are still hampering aid deliveries. Nearly half of the victims are in the westernmost part of Darfur, where aid agencies are struggling to provide help before the impending rainy season. "This is also the region where the Janjaweed militia is at its strongest and in spite of the ceasefire agreement... the internally displaced report that they are seeing more atrocities, more rape, more pillage, more murder," said UN Under Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs Jan Egeland. Another 700,000 to 800,000 more people in Darfur are likely to run out of what they need to survive within months, the UN added. Some 150,000 Sudanese refugees have fled across the border to Chad, 50,000 more than previously estimated. "We admit we are late. Constraints have been so great, some agencies have been so slow, some donors have been so slow, the government restrictions have been so many," Egeland said. "And the Janjaweed militia have been so harsh on the populations that we will have a humanitarian crisis of enormous proportions even in the best of circumstances," he warned. The UN said it faced a funding gap of about 236 million dollars for aid in the region until the end of the year. At the meeting, the United States pledged 188 million dollars over 18 months and the European Union's Commission said it would come up with 10 million more euros, while France promised another 1.4 million euros for refugees in Chad. Officials were adamant that the pressure was firmly on Sudan's government, amid the "most violent, mean-spirited kind of human conduct imaginable" in Darfur, said World Food Programme (WFP) chief James Morris. Representing the European Union, Ireland's Minister for Development, Tom Kitt, said: "We must also send a strong unequivocal message to the Sudanese government that it live up to its obligations to protect its citizens and, in accordance with the ceasefire agreement, disarm the militia and give access". The meeting in Geneva brought together donors, Sudanese and Chad officials, Darfur rebel groups, the United Nations and aid agencies. "Humanitarian aid is urgent but it is not enough. A political solution is necessary: the Sudanese government's ethnic cleansing must not stand," Kenneth Roth, head of the advocacy group Human Rights Watch Roth said here. Six human rights monitors were due to be deployed in an area equivalent to the size of France, the UN announced at the meeting. They will join African Union monitors who are due to oversee a frequently broken ceasefire agreed in April. On Tuesday, one of two rebel groups -- the Justice and Equality Movement -- said 24 people had been killed in a two-day assault by government forces in the west Darfur village of Adjidji. A UN human rights report released last month accused the Sudanese government of committing massive human rights violations in Darfur that may amount to crimes against humanity. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stormig Posted June 3, 2004 Report Share Posted June 3, 2004 This one e-mail I got this morning said two million but included disease in the picture. I deleted it so don't know the source. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DominO123 Posted June 3, 2004 Report Share Posted June 3, 2004 This one e-mail I got this morning said two million but included disease in the picture. I deleted it so don't know the source. I think 2 million makes more sense to me given the population involved here. No petrol or diamond there? Something to be exploited? That would be what it takes to make what is happening immoral in the eyes of the US. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stormig Posted June 3, 2004 Report Share Posted June 3, 2004 Petroleum? I think so... Sudan has been pestered a bit anyway (such as a factory belonging to a pharmaceutical plant being bombed out because the Amerikanskis musta been seeing WMD in their dreams again a few years back), so there must be a reason. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bellthecat Posted June 3, 2004 Report Share Posted June 3, 2004 It can't be properly reported in British media because it would mean saying that Muslims are killing and oppressing Christians - saying things like that is now strictly forbidden on British TV, and if a private individual says it then they could be sent to prison for inciting racial violence. I'm not kidding! But approaching it through jumping on the "anti-racist" bandwagon is OK - so if reality is rewritten and is presented as "whites" (Arabs) killing "blacks" (black Africans) then that's acceptable to be reported - however nothing can actually be done because doing something about it would be a racist act since it would mean oppressing (as in criticising) the behaviour of Muslims. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stormig Posted June 3, 2004 Report Share Posted June 3, 2004 It is basically Arab fundamentalists trying to spread religion AND promot cultural assimilation, the victims not just Christians but also pagan communities of black Africans, such as the Nuba. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stormig Posted June 3, 2004 Report Share Posted June 3, 2004 Nuba... http://www.nuba-people.com/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bellthecat Posted June 3, 2004 Report Share Posted June 3, 2004 ...the victims not just Christians but also pagan communities of black Africans, such as the Nuba. I doubt whether the typical Islamist considers there to be a difference. To go back to my original comment, if it were the reverse, a case of "blacks" killing "whites", then that also would not be reported on British TV! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Armat Posted June 4, 2004 Report Share Posted June 4, 2004 No petrol or diamond there? Something to be exploited? That would be what it takes to make what is happening immoral in the eyes of the US. Exactly! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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