News from Sudan's Darfur region gets more horrifying every day: The Guardian reports that Arab women who accompany the militias as they rape and slaughter their way around the region "sang for joy" as they watched their brothers torture their victims. Women as young as eight have been targeted by the militia in a campaign of rape designed to drive the black Sudanese from their homelands.No, I don't think Bush is Hitler -- but I think I have a pretty good idea who Hitler's intellectual heirs are...
Human Rights Watch claims to have obtained proof that Sudan's government backed the Janjaweed militias responsible for the massacre - Khartoum denies supporting the militia. The United Nations estimates at least 30,000 have died and a million have fled their homes since the attacks began.
"The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light." --Jesus
"Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious" --George Orwell
"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function." --F. Scott Fitzgerald
Tuesday, July 27, 2004
Fiddling on Sudan
EURSOC has the goods on Sudan: