really amazing how very little is being said about Dafur

[still_one]

where is the outrage?

same crap that happened in Rawandi

Who decides which lives are worth more?

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

1. Turn of the 19th/20th century...

five to ten million Congolese were slaughtered by the Belgians. Bigger than the Armenian holocaust and on par with the Jewish holocaust. But you don't hear about it much in history books.

[Chipper Chat]

2. Kofi talked about it today at the UN.

Jim Lehrer just had a lengthy segment on it (PBS Newshour) with Norm (Ugh) Coleman.

[leftchick]

3. NPR

CNNI and the BBC have been covering it well. It is our fucking corporate crap here on my TV that SUCKS!

I NEVER saw this crowd on my TV....



Thousands of people rally in Central Park to call for the immediate deployment of U.N. peacekeepers to protect civilians in Darfur, Sudan, 17 September 2006 in New York City. Sudan backed a plan to keep African Union (AU) peacekeepers in Darfur amid a flurry of intense diplomatic activity in New York to end the bloodshed in the Sudanese western region.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Michael Brown)

Thousands call for UN force in Sudan at US rally

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060918/wl_afp/sudandarfurusprotest_060918005120

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Thousands have rallied in New York City demanding Sudan allow the deployment of UN peacekeeping troops to stop a bloody civil war in the country's Darfur region.

The New York event was part of a worldwide day of protest, with meetings and rallies held in nearly 50 cities across the globe urging an end to the civil war in Darfur that has claimed than 300,000 people.

The Global Day for Darfur was organized to coincide with the start of the United Nations General Assembly debate this week and to mark the first anniversary of the signing of the 2005 UN World Summit Outcome Document.

According to the Save Darfur Coalition, which organized the New York rally, more than 30,000 people took part.

"We are vey excited about the people that turned out here and everywhere in the world for this important cause. The world cares about Darfur," the group's spokesman, Jeff Kovick, told AFP.

[cspanlovr]

4. Bush announced today he's sending an envoy. That should do it.

:sarcasm:

[applegrove]

5. Just the fact the government is still in power.. opens the doors to

any other megalomaniacs to ethnic cleanse. Where is the rule of law in the Sudan? Cause neocons complain constantly that government should not be doing anything but keeping the rule of law. So why is the Sudan exempt? If millions of crimes occur against people over years...there is no rule of law. Bush WH obviously doesn't mean it when they say government should stay out of some things.. but be tough on crime.

[Jcrowley]

6. The Congo As Well

How many have perished in the last 10 years? 3-4 million or more?

K&R