IGNORING GENOCIDE AS A POLICY

IGNORING GENOCIDE
AS A POLICY

That is what we have.  Denying the fact ~ is just another
form of ignorance.

If the economically leading countries of the world tried
to form plans on how to avoid stopping a known genocide
they could not do any more than they have done for
the last 5 years.

Stopping genocide is not impossible.  It just takes a moral
stand.  And a political will with intelligent plans and
knowledge of what would be the best way to stop it.
And it takes money.

Genocide stops with us.
Or it goes on with our complicit and enabling silence.

Into its 6th year, the Sudanese government is committing
and supporting genocide on its own people of the Darfur region.
China is supporting it with money provided to President
Omar al-Bashir of Sudan for buying Sudan's oil, selling
Sudan its weapons to use on the Darfuri people and blocking
U.N. actions to stop the genocide.

As an activist I receive emails from different organizations
about the genocide of the Darfur people, including those
with direct interest in Darfur and Sudan because they are
from Sudan.

Today I received the following email:

"This is what is happening now:

1- At check points Darfurians ( mainly from Zaghawa
tribe) are dragged from busses and cars, beaten in
public before shoved into security covered vehicles.

2- paramilitary and security forces went from house to
house in darfuri predominant neighborhoods (Umbada,
Fitaihab, Libiya Market in Omdurman), arrest male
darfurians ( mainly from Zaghawa tribe), beaten and
kicked in front of their families and children, some
are beaten by the end of assault rifles, then thrown
on the back of security trucks and taken away ( not
known where).

3- There were summary executions of Darfuris ( mainly
Zaghawa) and this some of the numbers reached us up to
now:

- 17 were executed in Umbada ( Omdurman)
- 5 were executed in Libya Market ( Omdurman).
- 3 were executed in Fitaihab ( Omdurman).
- 2 were executed in Khartoum Stadium ( Khartoum).

I get names of disappeared. I am trying to put updated
list. I get calls from all over the world from
Darfuris with relatives in Khartoum area - all night.

Update on Darfur:
The Government unleashed the Janjaweed in central
Darfur. I got news that Tawila village and surrounding
villages were burnt in a fresh attack ( revenge to
Khartoum incident). Still waiting on number and names
of casualties among the villagers."

And I received today, the link to the following USA Today article.
Because of copyright restrictions,
I have included a portion of the article, but I encourage you
to go to the link provided to read the entire article.
 
Sudanese Troops round up suspected rebels

By Charles Levinson, USA TODAY 
To read the entire article go to the link
usatoday.com/news/world/2008-05-11-sudan

'Living in panic'

"If you are dark and resemble the people of the Zaghawa tribe … they will take you away," said Fatema Daoud, 22, who belongs to a Darfur rebel faction. "If they hear you speaking the Zaghawa dialect, they will arrest you. My people are living in panic."

Sunday, government pickups circulated through Khartoum loaded with suspects, almost all of whom had dark skin. Soldiers pumped their fists into the air as jubilant onlookers cheered...

...Daoud said she knew of a dozen families whose sons had gone missing in the past 24 hours.

Minutes after she spoke from the sitting room of her family's single-story mud home, gunfire erupted one street over. Government forces descended upon a small laundry and dragged off a pair of suspects, said Mohammad Hassan, a shop owner who said he witnessed the arrest.

Hassan said the suspects were unlikely rebels. "They've lived here for years," he said...

Rebel movements 

The threat posed by the rebels may be difficult to completely defuse. The rebels reached Khartoum after crossing about 400 miles, including vast tracts of desert, in a short time with relatively little opposition from the government.

Sudan's government accused neighboring Chad of aiding the rebels and severed ties with the country Sunday...

...They met up with rebel forces that had slipped into the city in preceding weeks and months and marched on the government's radio and television headquarters, according to rebel leader Hagar Abdallah.

The rebels also marched on an artillery and tank depot where they hoped to seize the heavy weapons that would allow them to conquer all of Khartoum, Abdallah said.

The government was never in serious danger of collapse Saturday, but Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir has faced increased pressure in recent months from a strong opposition and disloyal factions in his own ranks.

Mutrif alleged the rebels received help from within the army. Many of the army's rank and file are from Darfur...

Source: usatoday.com/news/world/2008-05-11-sudan
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Bernard Henri Levy and Umberto Eco talk about Darfur on Charlie Rose

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