Something worse than Rwanda: Darfur continues

"Now that most of the black African villages in Darfur have been destroyed, sexual violence against women and children is being used to break the will of the population that remains"
-- The Guardian's Glenys Kinnock.

If you haven't seen Hotel Rwanda yet then you really, Really should. In 1994 Rwandan ethnic conflict boiled over into all out genocide. Bill Clinton did nothing and the UN pulled its 'peacekeepers' out along with all the white people. A great many Rwandan's of both Tutsi and Hutu ethnicity died, in most cases mutilated with machetes. With the benefit of hindsight an ashamed world community finally spoke about Rwanda and made a promise: Never Again.

Not only has this promise been shattered, but in Darfur humanity has found a way to go lower. After bombing villages and using militias as proxy armies on the ground to continue harassing civilians the Sudanese government's Janjaweed militias are again using rape of women and children systematically as a weapon to drive the predominantly black villagers out of their homeland.

And what do we Westerners do? The US has cut funding to the already poorly funded African Union's 6000 peackeepers, though it should be noted that the US is probably the biggest supporter of action to stop the genocide. Sudan's biggest supporters both in arms sales and oil purchases are Russia, China and France. So no one comes out of this without blood on their hands including an apathetic media who've failed to interest their entertainment-addicted consumers in one of the greatest tragedies of the new century.

Related Link