Darfur Update
The government Janjaweed militias have murdered, raped and displaced the non-Muslim citizens of Sudan. The UN did nothing except whine and wring there hands. If they would've acted, they could have prevented this:
ABU SHOUK, Sudan - There were no smiles, no blessings at the birth of the light-skinned girl with the ebony eyes and curly black hair. Not a glimpse of joy. For a family still bleeding from war, the baby was like salt on their wounds.
"My father didn't speak for the entire day," recalled the baby's mother, Suad Abdalaziz, 28, her voice cracking and her face streaming with tears. "He was not angry at me. He was angry at the Janjaweed and the government for giving me this baby."
In the troubled province of Darfur, pro-government Arab militias called Janjaweed have raped countless black African women in a campaign that the Bush administration has called genocide.
Now, their babies are emerging across this tableau of human suffering. They are outcasts in a war-scarred society where rape is a source of shame and the father's identity defines a child.
Relatives shun the babies, seeing in their tiny faces the atrocities committed by enemies. Mothers struggle to accept them, torn between loyalty to their tribe and their instincts to love and care. Many are resigned to a life of isolation, where marriage is unlikely and their children will forever carry a stigma.
"These are the babies of the Janjaweed," said Hassan Abdallah Bakhur, a tribal elder from the town of Tawilla. "I don't know how we can solve this problem. They and their mothers face a bad future."
An entire generation will be shunned because their mothers were raped by genocidal muslims and the world did nothing.
Update: Here's more:
IS IT because they are black? It makes you wonder. Not just about how the people of Darfur are treated by the Government of Sudan, but also about how they are treated by the wealthy nations of the world.
People argue that there are not Arabs and black Africans in Sudan, only different black tribes competing for scarce resources. That may bear some truth, but it is not what the victims say. “The Arabs are doing this,” I was told over and again by refugees on the Chad-Sudan border this year. “When the Janjawid (Arab militias) and the Government attack they call us slaves and niggers. That is why they kill, steal and destroy.”
Over centuries many Sudanese tribes have assumed an Arabic identity. Once that was the same as taking on Islamic culture, but now the distinction is not so clear. Those who see themselves as Arab look down on the others, even the pious Muslim African tribes.
Sunday, November 28, 2004
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