Never again?

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In pictures: Janjaweed in Chad :(

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/picture_gallery/06/africa_janjaweed_in_chad/html/1.stm

This is a conflict disguised as political, fighting over natural resources...etc. W e should call it what it is - Genocide.

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pretty sad Sama

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That's awful, Sama.

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What's even more disheartening is the debate by the internatinal community on who should go in to stop the conflict - The UN or the cash strapped AU (African Union) peace keepers. It's funny how say in the case of Iraq, even the USA dared disregard the advice of the International Community under false pretexes to invade, but in this case they have to weigh...no body wants to move.

Fine Bahrain have pledged backing; meanwhile the Arabs are having a field day slaughtering their black brothers - once again, it's obvious that the oil in Dafur is more valuable than it's people. Mighty China too with its
"non-interference" stance won't make a move for fear of jeopardizing it's oil prospecting interests.

A force deployed in Dafur would not just be going in to stop the blood-shed, it would have to be waging war on a hostile Khartoum (capital of Sudan) goverment - Khartoum knows very well that the AU has no backing. The few AU troops there are to thinly spread to provide any protection.

This is so &*@#*^up!

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I have been following the Janjaweed stories online for awhile now and it's horrible what they are doing. Just another reason why the UN is pretty useless, why we let them have that piece of realestate in NYC is beyond me. Who knows maybe next they will elect a representative of Sudan to the council on human rights. The international community should have stepped in and put a stop to this long ago.

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I have to say the UN does its best as far as its mandate goes. It's the red tape and overwhelming veto strength of "powerful'' nations that create beauraucracy. I think the UN has suceeded in other areas like environmental awareness, humanitarian assistance, and creating more awareness about the link between conflict and environmental degradation; take the situation of the more than 4,000 refuge seekers from Somalia that have come into Kenya in the last month, and the havock that will cause on the already arid lands of north eastern Kenya.

I feel it would go some way if there was an African nation on the Security Council...

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I recently found out that 19th Century Darfur had been an Arab slave breeding area wher black Africans were bred like livestock for sale in the Caribbean sugarcane farms and the Southern Farms of north America.

I'm of the opinion that the conflicts (as is the case with Darfur which is largely the extermination of the black Africans) in Africa have a direct link to their history; in the case of Darfur and much of northern Africa (where the slave trade is still alive) the solution lies in the self-examination by the Afro-Arab nations (Mauritania-by far the second worst after Sudan, Egypt, Libya,Sudan, Morocco,Tunisia) on the treatment of black Africans. Does any continent constitute its land and its people or only it's land?

I find it ironic that almost 200 years after the official abolition (to be commemorated next year) of the slave trade, this still continues in Africa.

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http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/37714

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Debate on the logistics of
darfur conflict resolution

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6058920.stm