Will anything ever be done about Sudan?

[Fountain79]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11813095/

ON THE BORDER BETWEEN CHAD AND SUDAN - Home for Jamaya is under a tree. Two months ago, Arab militias called Janjaweed roared into her village on horseback, shouting, “You are black slaves. Black men, we want to kill you.”

She and her three children haven't seen her husband since.

Jamaya walked barefoot, leading her children on a donkey, for nearly 40 miles, before reaching a besieged refugee camp in Chad.

Is this going to be just like Rwanda where a massacre happens and the world does little or nothing to stop it?

[Selatius]

1. Bush is too damn busy with Iraq and hiding from his own corruption to care

They won't get help from the US government at this rate.

[spanone]

2. He knows that genocide is going on. He's so compassionate.

Oh, and he's a Christian too! :sarcasm:

[rfkrfk]

3. to step in, and separate the warring factions ...

would be viewed by some as giving legitimacy to the separatists

for whatever reason, Bush does nothing.
the non-US part of the world, is either indifferent or
too timid to act

[Igel]

4. The AU has been discussing the possibility of

having the UN peacekeeping mission to the south of Sudan be spread up the western side into Darfur.

Sudan's rejected the idea. It requires approval before any troops are deployed. It's known as sovereignty.

On the other hand, showing that it's strictly a civil rights issue, last week there was a large demonstration in Khartoum, mostly men, carrying signs and shouting slogans that they will not allow Islam to be attacked by the west again, and denouncing the US, the UN, and pretty much everybody that doesn't like them; the 'genocide' is a fiction, a pretense for yet another Islamist country to be attacked for its oil and out of hatred for Islam. The usual "we sacrifice our hearts and souls for you, O" whatever the appropriate noun is. Yawn.

That protest got scant mention in the American press.

But it is precisely how any armed intervention will be perceived in the absence of Sudanese approval--and we probably have fairly accurate suspicions about how likely *that* is.

[Fountain79]

6. So we allow the murder of thousands...

At the risk of what the perception of us might be?

[acmejack]

5. Bad luck for her & her children they don't look Swedish

Blond & blue eyed. Think there would be any scarcity of relief efforts there now in that case?

[omega minimo]

7. Anyone have contacts/orgs/info on how we can help the people there?

Thanks.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

8. Yes.

Go to www.refugeesinternational.org

They have been monitoring the situation at Darfur since it began, and are attempting to moblize different organizations around the world to help. There's a page where you can email your reps with your concerns.

[omega minimo]

9. thank you ayeshahaqqiqa. i want to help.

:grouphug:

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

10. My guess is that these people wil get a nice apology a few years from now.