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November 10, 2005
Realist Genocide In Sudan Almost Over
Topics: Understanding Islam
Christopher Hitchens nails it on the genocide in Darfur by the Sudanese government/Nationalist Islamic Front. It seems that the ethnic cleansing is almost over - there are almost no black people left to cleanse or kill!
It looks as if the realists have won the day in the matter of Darfur. Or, to phrase it in another way, it looks as if the ethnic cleansers of that province have made good use of the "negotiation" and "mediation" period to complete their self-appointed task. As my friend Johann Hari put it recently in the London Independent: "At last, some good news from Darfur: the genocide in western Sudan is nearly over. There's only one problem--it's drawing to an end only because there are no black people left to cleanse or kill."
By some reliable estimates, the Sudanese government or "National Islamic Front" has slain as many as 400,000 of its black co-religionists--known contemptuously as zurga ("niggers")--and expelled perhaps 2 million more. This appalling achievement has been made possible by a very simple tactic: The actual killers and cleansers, the Arab janjaweed militias, are a "deniable" arm of the Sudanese authorities. Those authorities pretend to negotiate with the United Nations, the United States, and the African Union, and their negotiating "card" is the control that they can or might exercise over said militias. While this tap is turned on and off, according to different applications of carrot and stick, the militias pretend to go out of control and carry on with their slaughter and deportation. By the time the clock has been run out, the job is done.The Sudanese Government, using Arab "Janjaweed" militias, its air force, and organized starvation, has been systematically killing the black Sudanese of Darfur. As pointed out by Hitchens in his Frontpage Magazine article, our "policy in Darfur has not just failed to rescue a stricken black African population: It has actually assisted the Sudanese Islamists in completing their policy of racist murder."
Posted by Richard at November 10, 2005 1:31 AM
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