Let's say that USAMA has a four digit IQ and is the only one who can see clearly what is happening in Sudan.
Arab racism and imperialism is not better than Eurocentrism and supremacy.
What the hell do Arabs think they are to impose anything on all black peoples in Africa?
Conquering North Africa was not enough? Maybe they want all blacks to move in Antarctica.
Four centuries of slavery and castration of black males by Arabs did not erase blacks from the earth. They can even call their prophet to help them for more genocides on black peoples and yet they will always be there. The slave trade by arabs and europeans have failed.
Bashir and the Usama alike will fail too.

Totally agree with Aimes.

That is why Kaddaffi wants a United States of Africa where all Africans speak Arabic and embraces Islam.

Aimes says:
The situation in Darfur is quite more complicated than it appears. First and foremost, it IS an attempt at genocide. The Arabs are trying to kill of the black Africans, and their ancestral lineage. Some would argue that even the Arab militiamen are black, but this is not so. Under Islamic law, individuals take on the ancestral line of their fathers, not their mothers. Therefore, many of the Arabs are Afro-Arabs, but their fathers are ARAB, which makes them ARAB.

The men who are being massacred by the Arab militia are the true Black Africans. Their fathers are African, which makes them African. The nationality/ethnicity of the mothers doesn’t count, because the offspring are classified according to their fathers. If you look at the murdered victims, they are almost always MEN, not WOMEN. There is a reason for this. Now, understand this, all MEN being killed by Janjaweed militiamen have African fathers, which makes them black. The Arab militia is attempting to severe the African line. There is no reason to kill the AFRICAN women. In fact, it is better to RAPE them, to massively rape them, in hopes of impregnating them. If an Arab rapes a Black African woman, any offspring will be considered ARAB. This way, the ARABS are investing in the next generation of ARABS. If the offspring happens to be male, it guarantees the next two generations of Arabs, because any woman the man has children with will also be ARAB.

Those of us who are most racial conscious will look at this and consider them all BLACK, but under Islamic law; the fathers’ line is what counts. Ten years from now, take a look at the next generation of Sudanese. To an untrained eye, they will still appear to be Black, however, if you take a closer look, you’ll see that they are not quite “Black”, but Arab Black, and since the fathers were Arab, it means they are Arabs.

Please don’t be fooled by the Arabs claiming that the West is propagating the idea of Arab vs. Arabs. Please don’t look at the photos of the Arab militiamen as proof that they are “Black”. Please have enough since to realize that some Arabs, can be darker than Africans, but if their fathers are Arab, then they are Arab. What’s going in Sudan is deplorable, racist, an inhumane. What’s worse is the fact that the Arab league and the African Union are very slow to act. Of course, the Arab League would be slow to act, because the Darfur crisis benefits them. The African Union members, those who are truly “Black Africans”, need to realize this, and step up to the plate. Divide and conquer is what’s happening, and after the Arabs murder off the Black Africans, they’ll move of to Somalia, then Zimbabwe, then Chad, etc….Now is the time to step up and realize that there is a divide between the Arab League and the African Union. I guarantee that if Arabs were being massacred by Africans or anyone else, the Arab League would have stepped up to the plate immediately, much as they did in the Lebanon-Israeli conflict early last year. So now is time for the African Union to step up. No one else is going to step up to protect Black Africans.

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The situation in Darfur is quite more complicated than it appears. First and foremost, it IS an attempt at genocide. The Arabs are trying to kill of the black Africans, and their ancestral lineage. Some would argue that even the Arab militiamen are black, but this is not so. Under Islamic law, individuals take on the ancestral line of their fathers, not their mothers. Therefore, many of the Arabs are Afro-Arabs, but their fathers are ARAB, which makes them ARAB.

The men who are being massacred by the Arab militia are the true Black Africans. Their fathers are African, which makes them African. The nationality/ethnicity of the mothers doesn’t count, because the offspring are classified according to their fathers. If you look at the murdered victims, they are almost always MEN, not WOMEN. There is a reason for this. Now, understand this, all MEN being killed by Janjaweed militiamen have African fathers, which makes them black. The Arab militia is attempting to severe the African line. There is no reason to kill the AFRICAN women. In fact, it is better to RAPE them, to massively rape them, in hopes of impregnating them. If an Arab rapes a Black African woman, any offspring will be considered ARAB. This way, the ARABS are investing in the next generation of ARABS. If the offspring happens to be male, it guarantees the next two generations of Arabs, because any woman the man has children with will also be ARAB.

Those of us who are most racial conscious will look at this and consider them all BLACK, but under Islamic law; the fathers’ line is what counts. Ten years from now, take a look at the next generation of Sudanese. To an untrained eye, they will still appear to be Black, however, if you take a closer look, you’ll see that they are not quite “Black”, but Arab Black, and since the fathers were Arab, it means they are Arabs.

Please don’t be fooled by the Arabs claiming that the West is propagating the idea of Arab vs. Arabs. Please don’t look at the photos of the Arab militiamen as proof that they are “Black”. Please have enough since to realize that some Arabs, can be darker than Africans, but if their fathers are Arab, then they are Arab. What’s going in Sudan is deplorable, racist, an inhumane. What’s worse is the fact that the Arab league and the African Union are very slow to act. Of course, the Arab League would be slow to act, because the Darfur crisis benefits them. The African Union members, those who are truly “Black Africans”, need to realize this, and step up to the plate. Divide and conquer is what’s happening, and after the Arabs murder off the Black Africans, they’ll move of to Somalia, then Zimbabwe, then Chad, etc….Now is the time to step up and realize that there is a divide between the Arab League and the African Union. I guarantee that if Arabs were being massacred by Africans or anyone else, the Arab League would have stepped up to the plate immediately, much as they did in the Lebanon-Israeli conflict early last year. So now is time for the African Union to step up. No one else is going to step up to protect Black Africans.

American Democrats have decided on a new standard for action. Are there WMDs (Weapons of Mass Destruction) in Darfur? The answer is no. Therefore, we should take no action.

Race and religion both are.
Race b/c in west no one gives a rats ass if you are not white.
Religion well it has to do with Arab centrist nature of islam.
Zanj is the derogitory word for blacks....
I am disappointed nothing is happening...

Steve and Stegman, yes, exit the rest of the world and stay in America. Do not takeover other people's countries, overthrow their govts, arm rebel groups, use mercenaries to train, equip, "advise" foreign militaries or rebel groups, or sell arms and military supplies to people in war. All of these America is responsible for. All of these America does throughout Africa. All of this serves to instigate and foment more suffering and war so America can advance its strategic interests such as energy and precious metal resources. In fact, if you stay out, people can figure out their own problems without your interference and then can approach America for peaceful trade and commerce. The terror threat thing will diminish, even refugees will return to their nations. In fact, Muslims would likely leave America to help rebuild their lands if America stopped playing RISK And STRATEGO and CIVILIZATION IV with real people. Then you can enjoy your white majority and all you have to contend with is brown skinned Latinos and illegal migration spirred on by your white owned American businesses violating the laws and the American govt complicit in their illegal conduct which violate capitalism by allowing illegal labor which artificially drive down labor costs which drive down wages causing the middle and working class to suffer.
Those are your real struggles, with the crooks in your own backyard.

Yes, well, birds of a feather flock together.

I heard a great saying yesterday:

Better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid rather than open mouth and remove all doubt.

I would just like to say I agree with Steve's comments 100%.

The US does not need to involve itself in this mess. It is not a question of race but rather culture. The Islamic people in Sudan know they can murder non-Muslims ( don't think they care about race ) because some @sshole, believe his name was Mohammad, said so 14 centuries ago. Either the native Sudanese will rise up and deal with their killers or not.

It has been too long that the rest of the world has turned a blind eye to the true nature of Islam, and too long that we have propped up failing cultures in Africa. Evolution my dear friends occurs not only at the cellular level, it also occurs culturally. You either realize your genocide is occurring and prevent it or not. May seem harsh, but life is harsh, there have been several mass extinctions already, people act as though this is a rare occurrence. Please read you history books. Genocide has been occurring for THOUSANDS of years. It is not specific to our species either.

While it is sad that so may have been and are going to be slaughtered, there is a saying that it is easier to help those who help themselves. Most African nations have displayed little ability to govern themselves effectively. It is difficult to spend money and lives on a cause with a high rate of failure. Why bother if there is no return ( return being a stable culture ). Sounds harsh, but the truth is harsh. Even if the West did remove the Islamic government, how long would it be until some other group or another Islamic regime took over making all of our effort moot? More than that, this is a country that cannot feed itself. It would be like adopting a vegetable. Constant care with little hope of it ever being able to care for itself.

If there had been ONE success story in Africa, you may be able to get more people on board. I know of exactly ZERO.

Bob, I don't know how much you know about Sudan, but the conflict is an open rebellion by rebel groups vs. the Sudanese military which uses some regular troops but mostly irregular militias known as Janjaweed. the rebel groups hold some territory and fight against the Sudanese troops/Janjaweed in other areas all within the large province of Darfur. It is similiar to the Colombian conflict wherein the Colombian govt used their regluar troops and secretly armed far right death squads to fight the FARC guerillas and Shining Path communist groups. In both cases, civilian populations supported the rebel groups, therefore the govts targetted the civilian populations with displacement, torture, death squads, rape, etc, aka pacification.
It should be noted that America is using a pacification strategy in the Anbar province of Iraq. It did so in Fallujah. It trained special Iraqi police and military units to serve as "hunter killer" squads that according to many estimates have passed their training to Shia militias, resulting in the increase of torture, murder, assasinations, rape, in Iraq.

Muslim American Society: Delegation to Darfur 2005

Bazeyi, making statements of which you know nothing of (Muslims in America are doing nothing) is irresponsible and unreasonable. Muslim American Society: Delegation for Peace in Darfur 2005

Why Arab militia-the so-called "Jenjaweet" are killing Black Africans, while the UN,USA,UK,France,China,Russia,Italy,German and world standby? Aren't they(Jenjaweet)together with Sudan goverment doing the same thing Hitler and Nazi did to the Jews and other minorities? Or is the number of victims too small to be considered?
I can only pray for courageous leader who will come out off the shadow and face this world humanitarian disaster.

There are about 1 million Muslims in USA and most of them are blacks. This is the only group of black Muslims that can have a powerful impact about the mischievous acts of Sudanese Arab-Africans in religious term if they decide to act firmly. What are they doing? Indifference, ignorance, naivety and rivalry among Africans eased tragedies endured by the continent since the 15th century. It is not yet over. Segregation due to regional, religious, tribal, clan or skin complexion difference is rife in Africa. Does the West have to solve the problem of a segregated race that segregated itself?

Bashir Goth's article is somewhat niave and his approach to the matter superficial, I'm sorry to say because western media needs more reporters of African and ethnic heritage. (1) The Omar Bashir government is an autocratic regime. Since the author called Khartoum's govt "Islamic", one should examine its qualifications. Bashir is the one in control and he has adopted his pacification strategy out of modern secular military science. It is not an "Islamic" strategy, it does not follow Islamic codes of war conduct and so forth, and by Islamic criminal legal standards, Bashir is a murderer who should be tried and punished.
(2) The Arab people are not a homogenous monolith. No matter how much all the people of Egypt want a thing, only one man has the power to do anything according to Egyptian law and society: Mubarak. The Egyptian people wanted to help the Palestinians and Lebanese and Mubarak sent his goons against them. When Sudanese refugees were killed in Egypt by Mubaraks goons, Egyptian people helped the Sudanese. In every Arab country, the rulers are distinct from the people. The rulers are the corrupting, tyrannical power forced upon their people. It is dead wrong to say the leader and people are ONE. The rulers have no problem killing their own people, as noted in the Hama massacre. And the Arab League is simply a club of the Arab tyrannical rulers. It is not a vehicle for actual people to help each other. So while racial bias is real in every people, and many Arabs do not fully relate to the people of Darfur because of many social disparities, the absence of help by the Arab Muslim people is due to the complacency of their govts allied with Bashir. There are several Muslim NGOS working in Darfur and working through UN and other international NGOs with greater assets.
(3) The Darfur conflict has reached the point of resolutions several times in the past 2 years. But foreign forces backing the variuos Darfur rebel factions have instigated their continual rebellion, sacrificing the interests of the helpless suffering people for the interests of the foreign backers, be they Chad, Libya, Eritrea, Israel or America. Khartoum has continued to come to the table, eventhough Bashir has been criminal and barbaric. Why haven't the western media and govts forced the rebels to surrender their arms or at least agree to truce? Chadian presidential guards trained by American Spec Forces are with the Darfur rebels and rebel groups have arms from Libya and Eritrea. Why is this not noted as a major obstical to resettlement, care, and security of the people? Sadly, sincerely concerned people are missing the diabolical underbelly of the Darfur plot to secede Darfur from Sudan most likely for energy rights now awarded to China to be turned over to whom? An American ExxonMobil consortium already in Chad? And Arab regimes stand idly by in complicity, perhaps out of fear of angering the foreign backers behind the Darfur rebels?

Tutu is right. Race is the reason why no one is doing anything about Darfur. He just misses the main point. It's not the race of the victims, it is the race of the perpetrators. There would be a global outcry and a very large UN force than in a week if Israel had invaded Sudan. Of course, I'm being sarcastic, but it is also true.

Because of color skin, that why if they were like lighter bodies than Arabs countries they would have consider their faith as muslem brothers like those in Lebanon and so on, Bashier is out spoke of Pleasines people but the arabs world donot ask him about what he doing in Darfur. They tell him do not allow U.N to come in.

So let me get this straight. Darfur tribes rebel, Kartoum attacks, China and Russia stop UN action because they want Sudan's oil and the West gets the blame for not 'doing something'?! This is ridiculous.

I agree with Mr Bashir about the Arab vs non Arab treatment by Arabs. Any moslem who has worked in Saudi Arabia will tell you about non-Arabs being treated lower than Arabs and even than westerners.

Mr Basir mentioned the hama massacre by ba'si regime in Syria, but forgot to mention a bigger genocide against Kurds by Ba'si Iraqi Arab government. In the Kurdish case in Iraq the international community and UN even failed to take any action to stop the Halabja and Anfal genocide. Why?

The Arab partners of Mr Saddam to this day have not appologized for their silence in Kurdish genocide and it is reported that countries like Egypt were destinations for some of the Kurdish children of Anfal genocide to work as prostitutes. Did Egypt express any appology or tried to find those girls? The Darfur tretment of girls and women reminds me of the Iraqi genocide agianst Kurds and the silence of their so called Moslem Arab and non Arab brothers.

The Darfur case is different from Iraqi Kurdish genocide, because the western countries are not providing chemical weapons to Sudan to bomb its citizens. In the case of Kurds, the countries which were the suppliers also share responsibility.

We are still living in "a world of dog eat dog" and I am sure if Western interests were at stake in Sudan, there was some action taken to prevent the bloodshed. But the Darfuri should thank God that the Western companies are not collaborating to give chemicals to bomb them!

Darfur human catastrophy is a genocide!

Darfur carnage is a genocide pure and simple. What the brutal dictatorship in Sudan is doing, amounts to attempts to eradicate the darker people of Darfur. The Sudanese solution to a simple problem, relating to demands for more political participation and equal access to opportunities is the total eradication of this people, or race-the Darfurians from the the face of earth. The above-actions fit the real meaning of the word genocide. The word gencide means an action or a campaign to wipe out a whole group of closely-related. That is exactly what the fascist Sudanese government and their genocidal Arab militia-the so-called "Jenjaweet" are doing in Sudan. This is not the first time, the political dewarfs in Khartoun have done somethimg like that. They have done the same thing to the people of Southern Sudan. A 20 years campaign to wipe out these people from the face of the earth have failed. The Khartoun despots recently signed a peace treaty with the late John Grang, following the cold-blooded killing, of hundreds of thousands of Southern Sudanese civilians. Khartoun regime must be charged with war crimes. I wonder what had happened to world justice? Who will speak for the voicless of the world? Shame on those defending such barbaric regimes for political, ethnic, racial grounds or economic grounds. People of good will, who have a sintilla of moral fabric in them, must condemn and disavow such whole sale murder of innocent people. primordial and primitive human instincts are very much in action in Sudan, and other parts of the world and especially Africa. We can not and must not be silent from such action. Where is Chief justice Robert Jackson and other champions of the Nuremberg trials, when the world needs them? The world must bring the regime in Khartoun to account.

When Islam came to Sudan, in 6th century with the herald, Allah Akber (God is Great), the indigeneous African race of Darfour thought it was inclusive God of life and justice and embraced Islam. To day, when an African person living in Darfour hears the herald, (s)he runs away, because it is a slogan from Janjaweed (Arab Muslim Militia) which brings death to the African Muslims of Darfour.

Unfortunately, victims only matter when they are rich and part of western civilization. The Darfurians are colored, black, nomads or peasants. They are an immensely beautiful people. But beauty doesn't protect; envy is always stronger. All wars now are fought for oil and natural resources. Africa is rich in both. The U.S. profits from fragmentation and endless civil wars in Africa and finances them as a means to keep its hold on African resources. As the previous post from an African noted, U.S. labeling of the war in Darfur as genocide is propaganda to cover up the U.S. genocide in Iraq, Afghanistan. The world will need a fair distribution plan for world resources to end the wars. Anti-Arabism is unhelpful. It doesn't solve the problem.

The government of Sudan will have to find a solution to the problem in Darfur. The agreement has to establish boundaries which protect the livelihoods of both, the nomads and the peasants and the participation and rights in the government of either group. The U.S. has to stop aggravating the conflict by taking sides with the parties more willing to further the U.S.'s own interests. Darfur is a large region and has room for both ways of life. For the Darfurians this is a conflict between two ways of life, not between two religions. The war in Darfur should not be used to further racism against Arabs and Muslims because that will aggravate the war, not end it.

As to peacekeepers, the African peacekeeping force should be given better world support financially and materially, so it can prevent unnecessary deaths until an agreement is reached. But only an agreement can end the war.

U.S. is the only country on earth that labeled what is going in Darfur as a genocide.This is a political allegation without legal basis.The main objective is to counter balance the moral decay of the administration in the foreign policy issues after the scandals of the secret prisons in Europe and the torture and in human interrogations in the Arab world. And also to shift the focus from the failure in Iraq ,Palestine and Lebanon..Sudan has become an easy target due to the long term campaign of isolation and tarnishing the image of the country.What are the criteria that used to reach this conlusion.By other words where is the evidence of mass graves or mass killings official in the administration stated that Bush has called it genocide to show that this administration is more moral than the Clinton administration who failed to called Rwanda tragic events as genocide in 1994.U.S. and the international community should play a positive role as a peace broker not a peace breaker.If they do care about peace they should exert more efforts to bring the non signatories on board,activate the inter tribal dialogue,provide humanitrian assistance and pressure the warring parties to honour the cease fire agreement adminstration describes the DPA as a good agreement but it dosen't show any supportive signal for itis implimitataion.No body can deny the human tragedy in Darfur but as a matter of fact itis a by product of war. Peace is acheivable when the U.S. and the international community suceed to silence the gun and engage the nonsignatries and the GoS in a serious dialogue to attain a comperhensive peace and use an effective diplomacy to delink the nighbouring countries from arming the rebles and supporting them.Sudan is not willing to open itis territory as abattle field between the terrorists and western power as it happening in Iraq and Afghanistan.Aficans are capable of solving their own problems.Western feeding tube is no longer a good solution to handle the africa's problems.We are requesting fund,technical and logestical support from the international community and we as africans will be accountable to solve in a prber way possible.Thank you for the awareness of this campign which becomes more misleading than representing the factual trends of the events and the real truth in Darfur.

Bashir Goth hit the nail at the head one more time. The genocide that is going in Darfur, silence by rest of the world and the lack of concrete action by the world community is morally indefensible.
I do agree with Mr. Goth that a Blackman's suffering and loss of life did not mean much to the rest of the world at least to the majority.
If that is not the case why we had witnessed two hundred years of black slavery in America? Why we had apartheid in South Africa? Why we had massacres in Rwanda and Brundi? Why there is genocide going on today in Darfur?
Knowing how the US and its coalition kicked out Saddam Hussein in the first Gulf War to safe the throne of the Kuwaiti Royal family, Knowing how belatedly Clinton administration and NATO saved Bosnia, and witnessing the humanitarian aid that the world community gave to the Far Eastern countries after Tsunami, I know the world community can stop the genocide in Darfur.
There should not be any political, financial, or solidarity interest to blind any nation from acting to participate and contribute stopping this genocide.

In several ways your article does us a great service; most particularly in shining the spotlight on the great discrimination, inhumanity and hypocrisy being shown by the Arab community.

You overlook the issue of economic discrimination I think. Lebanon is a relatively affluent population compared with that of Darfur. Economics has replaced race and religion as our greatest basis for discrimination; economics on the national level and "economic interest" on the International level. No?

However, you do us and our Darfur family a great disservice, unintended I am sure, by letting the US off the hook. With all respect to you I say that for anyone to state that the US lacks the strength to do this or that regarding Darfur is flatly wrong. This error in what you assert can be seen precisely by imagining the population being exterminated to be white and upwardly mobile, or American; or possessing vast amounts of oil.

Even if you disagree with what I just said, you or I cannot possibly know what the US can do IF IT HAS THE WILL. No one knows this. Test us! Do not make excuses for US. We are PRACTICED MASTERS of letting ourselves of the hook - contributing less per capita than virtually all of the developed nations.. And we want to learn otherwise. We are far more humane than our behavior has shown. We want to regain the great humanity we once practiced and were globally revered for once. Help us find courage, not excuses.

Jay McGinley
Jay McGinley DARFUR VIGIL DAY 119 (currently in NYC); 56 DAYS HUNGER STRIKE since July 4, 2006 (water only) www.standwithdarfurwhitehouseii.blogspot.com

"Discover oil in the region of Darfur "

I'm going to point out that Sudan HAS oil. It's even mentioned in the article. There are oil fields in Sudan.

Linky
http://www.hrw.org/reports/2003/sudan1103/

To the author:

You don't directly say this in your article, but would you say that UN intervention at this point is a bad idea? Or, if a resolution could be supported, would you be in favour of it?

Why? because it is not relivant for oil or religous purposes.And the color of their skin is wrong.

This is another brilliant article on the part of Mr. Bashir, which put the concrete reality in Darfur into perspective. I agree with Mr. Bashir in the sense that, Darfur crises is an amalgmation of race, religion, dictatorial tendency, ruthlessness, interest, inept so-called international organizations such as the United Nations Security Council(the Euro-American club,The Arab league, the AU, which are largely debating societies, who are mostly ineffective when it comes to serious regional crisis. These groups ocassionally make some noises here and there. The Arab league has exerted some pressure on the United Nations during the recent crisis in Lebenon. But If you look at the Palestinian problem, the carnage in Iraq and the Darfur genocide,they are completely abscent. The AU in my opinion is even more ineffective than the Arab league, due to its small financial prowess and some other problems. In the case of the former Somalia, both of the above-mentioned regional groups were either ineffective or abscent. Because, Somalia is neither Arab or African enough. Apparently whatever, the reason is, today a brutal genocide is unfolding infront of our eyes in Sudan and the international community is not doing enough to reverse this human catastrophy-genocide. Many non governmental groups in the United States are putting some presure on the United States congress and the government to do something. Even at this level of inaction, Darfur has more exposure in the United States and the world stage than Somalia. The world must act and do something about this unresponsive, and atrocious Sudanese government. This will in part go back to the serious flaws, and the defectiveness of the world bodies such as the UN and the regional organizations. This may warrant the need to the complete re-foundation of the international organizations such as the UN, the world bank and the IMF. This may also put into perspective the dire need of the reassessment of the international relations between states.

Can the world affords anymore to recognize counries that keep on violating international treaties, such the 1949 Geneva convention? Can the world will keep bestowing recognition on rogue states such as Sudan who have been brutally engaged in one gencide or the other? Isn't it is necessary for the world body to reassess the recognition of such outlaw states? who are habitual breakers of international laws, norms and princples. Can these countries keep on being members of the United Nations? Isn't such actions chew on the legitimacy of the United Nations? Ain't it is time to consider ejecting such countries from the world body? If such laws were existing when Siyad Barre was bombing Somaliland urban centers to rubble, and Mengistu was massacring hundreds of thousands of people in Eriteria,Ethiopia and Somalia, thousands of lives could have been saved. Sudan problem is about hegemony, oppression, despotism, bad governace and leadership, race and resources. To sum it up, the world must do something about it now, otherwise another Rwanda is around the corner.

A Brutally honest article.

Add to the fact that the Bush Adminisration in 2001 and again this month has blocked Congressional divestment legislation against companies supporting mass murder in Sudan.

Details available upon request
at cbunite1@yahoo.com

A Brutally honest article.

Add to the fact that the Bush Adminisration in 2001 and again this month has blocked Congressional divestment legislation against companies supporting mass murder in Sudan.

Details available upon request
at cbunite1@yahoo.com

A Brutally honest article.

Add to the fact that the Bush Adminisration in 2001 and again this month has blocked Congressional divestment legislation against companies supporting mass murder in Sudan.

Details available upon request
at cbunite1@yahoo.com

Bashir Goth's comments are remarkable, not for their content but because they are directed at an aspect of Darfur's nightmare about which both Western governments and Western media have been largely silent. This silence has been fairly comprehensive, and has lasted now for almost four years.

Genocide in Darfur is an Arab genocide and an Arab shame. Unless it is dealt with as such it will never end until every non-Arab in the region has been killed, died of starvation, or been driven into exile. I am not quite so pessimistic as Mr. Goth that Arabs outside of Sudan will never face up to what the Khartoum regime has done; if Western media has ignored the racial aspect of the Darfur situation, Arab governments and media have deliberately chosen silence about the entire matter, except for occasional reprints of official government statements.

Shame can be a weapon able to move governments. If it has not worked among Sudan's Arab allies this may be because it has never really been tried. The Bush administration -- and its North American and European allies, who have even less at stake in Sudan -- bear some responsibility for this. Committed to message discipline about bringing freedom to the Middle East, administration spokesmen have avoided saying things about Darfur that might muddle the message. European governments aware that any intervention in Darfur could not rely as the one in the Balkans did on American leadership have been as spineless as usual.

But at the end of the day Arabs are responsible for the genocide in Darfur, and Arabs must decide it has to stop. The tragic thing is that Khartoum's Arab allies would not even have had to do very much to force this appalling business to an end years ago. The Islamist regime in Sudan, while murderous by nature, is not and has not been strong enough to stand alone against pressure from the Western democracies. Isolated, it could have been forced into genuine peace negotiations long ago. Backed up uncritically by every Arab government, it cannot be trusted to negotiate anything in good faith, nor to honor the terms of any agreement it does sign.

Khartoum conducts a war against civilians from a position of strength, and the foundation of that position is the support it gets from other Arab states. That is the key to the Darfur problem: not the UN, not the US, not the Chinese. Mr. Goth is probably right that for the Arabs it does come down to race. But in any event, genocide in Darfur will continue as long as Khartoum's regime retains its Arab support. Only if that support is undermined is there any chance that a genuine peace in Darfur can be achieved.

i hate bush.......he is doing nuthing at alll except killing the lives of men women and children everywhere....he is a murderer so, i ask ...why keep him in office?

Discover oil in the region of Darfur .