Darfur: Waiting for the slaughter

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

By Paul Vallely

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/africa/article1603856.ece

Rasha Ibrahim Adam and her children may be about to die - just as she thought they had all escaped to safety.

The 38-year-old mother of four children is one of the latest to flee the bombs from the Sudanese government that have dropped on their homes. Today, she finds herself in one of the dusty, benighted refugee camps that litter the region of Darfur. She sits in her once bright red tob - a wrap-around dress - that has been faded by the sand-laden wind that blows across al-Salaam camp on the edge of the town of el-Fasher.

She was one of the 50,000 people who swelled the scorched camps for the "internally displaced" in the past month - bringing to about 2.5 million the number of children, women and men now homeless in a conflict that has dragged on for three years without an end seemingly in sight. Until now, that is. Because an end is in sight for the Darfur camps - where at least 300,000 black African farmers have been slaughtered by the Khartoum government and its Arab proxies, the Janjaweed militia, whose name means "devils on horseback". One of those who died was Rasha's husband, Adam.

It could be an end so terrifying, it defies the imagination...

[Monkeyman]

1. And again Bush is Awol

[nam78_two]

2. The ignored genocide :(

:(

[still_one]

6. no they haven't, in fact they have been pushing the U.N. to do something

The Sudan milita is against UN peace keeping forces there. There is plenty to hang this administration on, but not Sudan. If you want to blame anyone, Russia and China who have been blocking this effort until very recently, and then only half-hearted support.

The bush administration have plenty of fault in other areas, but you cannot hang this on them

[ismnotwasm]

3. And it goes on and on

Tommorrow is "Global Day for Darfur"
http://www.feminist.org/news/newsbyte/uswirestory.asp?id=9878
http://www.dayfordarfur.org/index.asp

At least it's in the main media now. On occation. So the noise activists are making IS being heard. With so much else going on manybe it's hard for folks to digest just how horrid these atrocities are.

[still_one]

7. no offense, but the "main media" could care less

There are as much as 300 hundred thousand people dead because of this, and hardly a word is spoken

Similar to Rawandi, no one really cares. It's pathetic

[pampango]

11. At least on occasion there is an article

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/22/AR2006092201476.html?nav=rss_world

"Rice spoke at a gathering of representatives from 25 governments that she and her Danish counterpart, Per Stig Moller, convened to maintain international pressure on Sudan. Khartoum has defied repeated U.S. and U.N. appeals over the past nine months to allow U.N. peacekeepers into the Darfur region to help halt an outbreak of violence that has left hundreds of thousands of civilians dead."

Rice at a UN meeting on Darfur. It's frustrating that all she and Bush will do is talk, but it would be useful if others spoke up as well, particularly other African Muslim countries like Egypt, Tunisia, Libya and Morroco. If the Europeans were able to eventually deal with the genocide in their back yard in Yugoslavia, then Islamic countries should be able to do the same.

Perhaps the Sundanese government would be more open to an approach from fellow Islamic countries to prevent the slaughter of fellow Muslims.

[Whereweat]

4. Sudan's president not allownig UN Peacekeepers

It is really a sad dituation there.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060916/ap_on_re_af/sudan_darfur

[Gregorian]

5. Recommended.

Please vote this up. It's one of the world's most important issues today.

How can we tolerate this and talk about other less important issues!

[applegrove]

8. Find out about Darfur Events Here: Sunday Sept 17, 2006

www.savedarfur.com

[samsingh]

9. this is horrible and monsterous

[TheGriz]

10. UN troops would change nothing

We saw this in Rawanda.

Until the ROE for peacekeepers are changed, all they can do is watch it unfold. You get the same genocide, plus shellshocked soldiers.