UN: Crisis in Darfur catastrophic

[nam78_two]

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2003190770_darfur11.html

Ways to help:

http://www.helpdarfurnow.org/
http://www.doctorswithoutborders-usa.org/donate/index.cfm?msource=AZD0408B1001
http://www.darfurgenocide.org/
http://donate.wvus.org/OA_HTML/ibeCCtpBuyRoute.jsp
http://www.theirc.org/media/www/darfur_hope_amid_the_violence.html

[uppityperson]

1. MSF, doctors without borders, very good group

the 1 "big" group I donate to.

[adriennui]

2. move on, it isn't important

the UN is too busy dumping on israel to do anything about a humanitarian crisis that's been years in the making.

too pathetic, i guess starvation isn't titillating enough, plus it's an arab government victimizing the africans. eyes wide shut when it is a certain group doing the killing and raping.

[azurnoir]

3. Pathetic indeed

The government in the Sudan is a Black government, the Baggara tribesmen who comprise the majority of the Janjaweed claim partial descent from Bedouin tribes, but to call them Arabs is a stretch, when to most westerners they appear Black. The Baggara are indeed Sunni Muslims, I have never seen a ethnic or religious breakdown of the farmers that they are victimizing but would have to imagine that being native to the same area it is similar. The reason I believe they are being ignored on both ends is due to the fact in part they are Black and in part that there is oil there also. I read a snip about a year ago an interview with a Blackwater mercenary who stated something to effect that Iraq was old news and that Sudan and Darfur was where the "action" was, although I have not been able to find any other mention of Blackwaters presence there.
The reasons that I state are that in past 15 years several catastrophic "uprisings" have come and gone with the US or any western government for that matter blinking. Rwanda where tens of thousands of people were butchered in tribal conflict and Liberia whose capital city Monrovia was a mass morgue for well over ten years, then there is Sierra Leone and it goes on to most people Darfur is just one more African tribal conflict "who cares they kill each other all the time" is the prevailing attitude

[welshTerrier2]

5. bingo: "there is oil there also"

i hesitate to recommend the intervention of the US military into Darfur but if no one else will act, we really have no choice ... the situation is already too horrible to contemplate and it's getting much, much worse very rapidly ...

[FrenchieCat]

6. But isn't the oil "controlled" by acceptable factions according to

the Bush Admin?

[nam78_two]

4. kick/nt