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Time for Precision Drones Over Khartoum
July 07, 2004
The Arab Muslim Government of Sudan still has not stopped its militias from displacing black villagers in an ongoing scorched earth campaign in the western province of Darfur. G.O.S. is also failing to deliver on promises made last week to Colin Powell and Kofi Annan to ease roadblocks for humanitarian workers. More than a million displaced people from Darfur are barely alive in refugee camps, thanks to the Arab Muslim government-backed Arab janjaweed militias. They have killed as many as 80,000 black Sudanese in recent months (earlier estimates topped out at 30,000); systematically gang-raped the women of Darfur, and burnt countless villages to the ground. All this on top of a 20-year civil war that has left some 2 to 2.5 million black Christian and animist Sudanese from the south dead, at the hands of Khartoum. The Scotsman sums up the latest developments well in this story, titled, "Killing Goes On, as Sudan Lies to World and Defies U.N." The African Union is looking to deploy 300 more "peacekeepers" to Darfur, but there'd have to be a peace for them to keep, first, wouldn't there? This article from The Economist suggests that even if Khartoum had the will to stop the janjaweed, it lacks the ability. Which realistically would leave direct military intervention, led by, um, international forces. Let's see now, who'd pull that together? The A.U., on the other hand, today called for Khartoum to crack down on the murderous militias. Maybe first - just to see what the G.O.S. really can do when properly motivated - a precision drone ought to deploy a few projectiles over Khartoum. And the first one should have President Omar al-Bashir's name on it. We know just who'd actualize that. Posted by Matt Rosenberg at July 7, 2004 12:05 PM Trackback Pings TrackBack URL for this entry: Comments:
" a precision drone ought to deploy a few projectiles over Khartoum. And the first one should have President Omar al-Bashir's name on it." Did I read that right Matt? A person who refuses to have toy guns in his house, suggesting an assasination by drone? For what it's worth. I feel your points are valid. I have to wonder, as we have unwittingly become the world's police force, if any true accomplishments will be made without at least sabre-rattling by our government. (or do you think Colon Powell has already done that?) From the A.U. article: But the council said in its statement that "even though the crisis in Darfur is grave, with unacceptable levels of death, human suffering and destruction of homes and infrastructure, the situation cannot be defined as a genocide." What do you call it then? A playground squabble? UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has said the crisis is "bordering on ethnic cleansing." Isn't that the beginning of genocide? Posted by: rross at July 8, 2004 11:56 AMFrom INSTAPUNDIT: DARFUR UPDATE: Has France ever met a murderous regime it didn't like?
The UN Security Council is due to discuss a US draft resolution imposing sanctions on militias accused of "ethnic cleansing" against non-Arabs. . . . "In Darfur, it would be better to help the Sudanese get over the crisis so their country is pacified rather than sanctions which would push them back to their misdeeds of old," junior Foreign Minister Renaud Muselier told French radio. Posted by: tina at July 8, 2004 12:03 PMPost a comment
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