Humanitarian crisis in Sudan
Take a look at the news, click here. Now the worse humanitarian crisis in the world, resulting in starving refugees/internally displaced people (most of them young children, as usual).
Excerpts:
"..The hellish scene in northern Chad where people are fleeing the vicious but little-publicized war in western Sudan's Darfur region has been called the worst humanitarian crisis in the world today."
"a Human Rights Watch report released on Wednesday said armed government forces and Arab militias continued to attack men, rape women and steal livestock in the region."
"Until now, those who didn't have anything else were surviving on the seed of a tree that they would normally feed their goats."
"WESTERN DARFUR, Sudan (CNN) -- Hamdi Ismail is one and a half years old, but weighs only 12 pounds. Other 2- and-3-year-old children at an emergency feeding center weigh as much as the average 3-month-old infant in the United States."
"Refugees in the Darfur camps are victims of the brutal waves of ethnic cleansing perpetrated by the government-backed Arab militias against the black African population over the past 18 months."
The crisis apparently has been worsening for the past 15 months. FIFTEEN months. More people have been killed in Darfur than in Iraq or Russia or Jakarta. Yet the world couldn't be more apathetic. As "voice" of the democratic world and sole superpower, where is the US this time around? Since most violent acts recently have been classified as acts of terrorism, the Sudan government condoning this genocide against its own population probably qualifies as well. Question is, what are the UN and US doing about it? Resolutions by the UN seem to have little effect. The deadline for disarmament came and went. So why is there little action in Darfur? At times like this, can't blame the public for their sceptism in the US waging wars on foreign land when there's this immediate crisis in a small African nation and the US's reaction seems to be "can't be bothered". Sadly, it seems to be escalating to be worse than Rwanda. Would it be a different matter is Sudan was an oil-rich country??
Excerpts:
"..The hellish scene in northern Chad where people are fleeing the vicious but little-publicized war in western Sudan's Darfur region has been called the worst humanitarian crisis in the world today."
"a Human Rights Watch report released on Wednesday said armed government forces and Arab militias continued to attack men, rape women and steal livestock in the region."
"Until now, those who didn't have anything else were surviving on the seed of a tree that they would normally feed their goats."
"WESTERN DARFUR, Sudan (CNN) -- Hamdi Ismail is one and a half years old, but weighs only 12 pounds. Other 2- and-3-year-old children at an emergency feeding center weigh as much as the average 3-month-old infant in the United States."
"Refugees in the Darfur camps are victims of the brutal waves of ethnic cleansing perpetrated by the government-backed Arab militias against the black African population over the past 18 months."
The crisis apparently has been worsening for the past 15 months. FIFTEEN months. More people have been killed in Darfur than in Iraq or Russia or Jakarta. Yet the world couldn't be more apathetic. As "voice" of the democratic world and sole superpower, where is the US this time around? Since most violent acts recently have been classified as acts of terrorism, the Sudan government condoning this genocide against its own population probably qualifies as well. Question is, what are the UN and US doing about it? Resolutions by the UN seem to have little effect. The deadline for disarmament came and went. So why is there little action in Darfur? At times like this, can't blame the public for their sceptism in the US waging wars on foreign land when there's this immediate crisis in a small African nation and the US's reaction seems to be "can't be bothered". Sadly, it seems to be escalating to be worse than Rwanda. Would it be a different matter is Sudan was an oil-rich country??
posted by xaverri at 10:31 pm
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