History Forum / General / General Topics / February 2005

I am curious if the Arab media are reporting this (conveniently edited or
in-full?) to the Arab Street, which particularly enjoys bashing Jews & zionists
as per their conditioners & brainwashers & Pavlovians manifestly intend

So far as I currently know, the main populace/media consumer  has no
substantive idea that a calamity  has actually been happening in Sudan/Darfur,
whether considered as being "genocide" or whatever the helle it is defined as

Perhaps it's been characterized as "rebellion" and implicitly so justified with
convenient/edited/purposeful deletions of casualties, details, pictures and the
ugly racial aspects

So far as I know the usual Israel-haters & Jew-haters of this very alt.history
newsgroup have not mentioned the Darfur situation, which I find quite
instructive regarding rationalism, dogmatism & demagoguiery in some
rants/claims about history & reality

Final paragraph of recent UN report

"...The government responded with a counterinsurgency campaign in which an Arab
militia, known as the Janjaweed, committed wide-scale abuses against the
African population. An estimated 1.8 million people have been displaced in the
conflict, and more than 70,000 people are believed to have died from hunger and
disease since March. "

http://cnn.netscape.cnn.com/ns/news/story.jsp?floc=ne-world-10-l2&flok=FF-
APO-1105&idq=/ff/story/0001%2F20050131%2F1243725131.htm&sc=1105

copyrighted by the a.p and/or netscape 2005

Sudan: U.N. Clears Gov't of Genocide

By DANIEL BALINT-KURTI

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) - Sudan's foreign minister said Monday a U.N. report
concluded that no genocide was committed in his country's Darfur region, where
tens of thousands of civilians have died in a nearly two-year crisis.

At U.N. headquarters in New York, diplomats confirmed that the report did not
find that Sudan had committed genocide, but they said it was very critical of
Sudanese government actions. The report was expected to be circulated in New
York on Tuesday.

The United States has accused Sudan's government of directing militia who
attack civilians in what Washington has called a genocidal campaign in the
western region.

``We have a copy of that report and they didn't say that there is a genocide,''
Sudan Foreign Minister Mustafa Osman Ismail said on the sidelines of an African
Union summit in the Nigerian capital, Abuja.

Last year, the United Nations said the Darfur conflict created the world's
worst humanitarian crisis. U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said Sunday a
report on the situation would be forwarded to Security Council members ``very
shortly.''

Annan declined to say whether the team made a determination that genocide was
committed.

``Regardless of how the commission describes what is going on in Darfur, there
is no doubt that serious crimes have been committed,'' he said. ..."

(entire article is at netscape website)