From Seattle writer and consultant Matt Rosenberg...: United Nations Condones Genocide in Sudan

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United Nations Condones Genocide in Sudan

April 24, 2004

Europe doesn't care about the current genocide in Sudan because it's being perpetrated by the ruling Arab Muslims. An EU bloc on the United Nations Human Rights Commission watered down a resolution on the current horrors in Sudan, deleting language condemning the genocide that Human Rights Watch and other observers have clearly identified.

Arab militias paid by the hard-line, Muslim-controlled Sudanese government have killed about 30,000 black Sudanese in the Darfur region in recent months, according to the U.S. About 900,000 have been displaced internally, more than 100,000 across the border to Chad. Gang-raping of women has been widely reported as well.

Here is how Human Rights Watch describes things in a report issued this month.

Using indiscriminate aerial bombardment, militia and army raiding, and denial of humanitarian assistance the government of Sudan and allied Arab militia, called janjaweed, are implementing a strategy of ethnic-based murder, rape and forcible displacement of civilians in Darfur as well as attacking the rebels.
The African or non-Arab Fur, Masaalit, and Zaghawa communities, from which the rebels are drawn, have been the main targets of this campaign of terror by the government. Almost one million Darfurian civilians have been forced to flee their homes in the past fourteen months and many have lost family members, livestock and all other assets.

The janjaweed militias are drawn from Arab nomadic groups. Their armed encroachment on African Zaghawa, Masaalit and Fur pastures and livestock in past years resulted in local armed self-defense measures by the targeted communities when they realized the government would not protect them. Instead of quelling the friction, the Sudanese government has increased its backing for the Arabs. Khartoum has recruited over 20,000 janjaweed which it pays, arms, uniforms, and with which it conducts joint operations, using the militias as a counterinsurgency force.

While many of the abuses are committed by the janjaweed, the Sudanese government is complicit in these abuses and holds the highest degree of responsibility for pursuing a military policy that has resulted in the commission of crimes against humanity.

All this comes as an end was in sight to a 20-year civil war in which the ruling Arab Muslims of north Sudan killed 2 million black Christian and animist south Sudanese, displaced scores more, forced children into slavery and engaged in widespread human rights abuses.

The U.S. and Australia were among the minority opposing the weak U.N. measure, which called for further investigation of the situation in Sudan.

Quite a bit of investigating has already occured.

Here's the link to the damning report from Human Rights Watch.

The U.N. Human Rights Commission doesn't deserve its name.

Posted by Matt Rosenberg at April 24, 2004 03:41 PM

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