ramana wrote:Is anyone following the events in Sudan?
These are Bad people, Very, Very Bad people. They have been involved in one on the bloodiest events on this planet since the end of the second world war. For the greater part all this has been brushed under the carpet as the murderers are of a certain faith. Just to put into perspective,
First civil war killed between 500,000–1 million
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Sudanese_Civil_War
Second civil war killed between 1–2.5 million
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Sudanese_Civil_War
Subsequent fighting in and around Dufur 300,000 dead
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_in_Darfur
ie a bottom estimate of
1.8 million to a top estimate of 3.8 million. IDPs and refugee numbers are another matter. Other than the mortality around the Great Lakes, there is no other theatre in the world that has seen numbers like this since 1945 and I live in a world that is convulsed with a war in Ukraine! Ask those who can cry a river for Ukraine how many times they have EVER discussed these matters and you will be met with complete and utter
SILENCE.
In essence what is happening now, is IMHO, sheer power play. The army would like to impose its authority and its recently hired killers have other ideas. The Janjaweed have transformed themselves into a newly relabelled and more slick sounding Rapid Support Force (RSF) but in essence remain nothing short of butchers whose deeds have gone unpunished for a long time.
I deary hope they all rot in hell and I sincerely wish the same for the Sudanese army.
Many years ago I wrote a comment in a newspaper called the Asian Age in response to a so called journalist called seema mustapha (name in small case on purpose) who was on a state sponsored trip to Sudan. In her articles she spoke eloquently of how young children were playing under the trees and that their giggles filling the air, etc ie supporting the Sudanese government's narrative of normalcy. Normalcy, when by then, some 100,000+ had died and mustapha was flagrantly denying this fact!
My letter,
Unbelievable. For a journalist who has so much to say of the sufferance
of the Palestinians it has taken 2 days for the word Dafur to enter your
vocabulary in your writings from Sudan. Let me give you a hand as you
seem so unfamiliar with the situation.
The UN earlier this year said more than two million of the estimated
six million population of Dafur had fled their homes and are in refuge
camps both in and outside Sudan. There are few estimates that put the
number of dead at less than 180,000. Let me give you some more numbers.
The total number of dead in all of Sudan's conflicts in the last 30
years is even at a conservative estimate, put at 2,500,000.
It is self-evident that there seems to be some lack of understanding on
your part of the scale of what is being said here, so let me make the
comparison easier for you to understand. The total population of the
Gaza Strip is approximately 1,500,000. May I enquire by what maths are
the Israeli killings Genocide and these not?
For the comment that you have recanted that this is "internal strife
brought about by poor development and acute poverty", is by any
description gauling and in defiance of the ground realities if not an
insult to the suffering of these innocent people.
You have as is obvious from your article not quite understood who or
what the Janjaweed are. Not so much as one word of what these Arab
Militia have done and are still doing to another Muslim population that
is entirely Black. Pure and simple racial profiling and targeting that
involves the killing of tens of thousands of Black male citizens of
Dafur, the burning of their villages and food stores and the systematic
raping of their women and children. Why no discussion of this in your
story or do I understand that you are unfamiliar with these facts.
You seen very apt at suggesting that India is making a great mistake
when it fails to raise the profile of the plight of the Palestinians,
and yet in all your writings there is not so much as one word as to how
and why India should confront Sudan in these matters. Why so?
Its a taint that runs through out your articles, that you seem to have a
problem criticising Muslim countries for the sufferance that they heap
upon both their people and others but no shortage of complaints for non
Muslim countries that may be guilty of similar misadventures. This last
article of yours is nothing short of a travesty for the sufferance and
misery that the Islamic government of Sudan has put its innocent
citizens through and continues to do to this date.
2 days later the comments section of the newspaper was disabled and my note thus deleted. The world remains ignorant!
again,
"I deary hope they (the Janjaweed) all rot in hell and I sincerely wish the same for the Sudanese army."
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