Thousands of black Muslims killed each week

[Roger]

A striking example of how once again nobody gives a damn about the Africans. Could it be racism or is it the lack of exploitable resources in those countries? Or is it something else? Maybe they don't have that certain "je ne sais quoi" that causes people to pay attention.

New York Times article.

Yet right now, the government of Sudan is engaging in genocide against three large African tribes in its Darfur region here. Some 1,000 people are being killed a week, tribeswomen are being systematically raped, 700,000 people have been driven from their homes, and Sudan's Army is even bombing the survivors.

And the world yawns.

So what do we tell refugees like Muhammad Yakob Hussein, who lives in the open desert here because his home was burned and his family members killed in Sudan? He now risks being shot whenever he goes to a well to fetch water. Do we advise such refugees that "never again" meant nothing more than that a Führer named Hitler will never again construct death camps in Germany?

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In my last column, I called these actions "ethnic cleansing." But let's be blunt: Sudan's behavior also easily meets the definition of genocide in Article 2 of the 1948 convention against genocide. That convention not only authorizes but also obligates the nations ratifying it ? including the U.S. ? to stand up to genocide.

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In her superb book on the history of genocide, "A Problem from Hell," Samantha Power focuses on the astonishing fact that U.S. leaders always denounce massacres in the abstract or after they are over ? but, until Kosovo, never intervened in the 20th century to stop genocide and "rarely even made a point of condemning it as it occurred." The U.S. excuses now are the same ones we used when Armenians were killed in 1915 and Bosnians and Rwandans died in the 1990's: the bloodshed is in a remote area; we have other priorities; standing up for the victims may compromise other foreign policy interests.

Obviously nobody cares, including Bush, who made it clear time and time again that he values freedom and that tyrants shouldn't be allowed to rule.

Clinton's actions in Kosovo where the exception rather than the rule.

Why is it that nobody cares when the black people are the victims? Do they count as human or anything? And it's not just the governments who don't care, it's also the people. The least our governments ought to do is to call attention to the genocide that's taking place. I mean I was completely unaware of the situation.