Years of fighting between ethnic groups and Arab militias in western Sudan have left at least 180,000 people dead and about 2 million homeless. Darfur's violence recently spilled into neighboring Chad and threatens to escalate: Osama bin Laden last week urged his followers to go to Sudan to fight a proposed U.N. presence. Sudan has indicated it might accept a U.N. force in Darfur to aid African Union troops if a peace treaty is signed, and the head of Sudan's delegation, Magzoub El-Khalif, said Sunday the government is willing to accept the draft circulated last week. The draft addressed complaints from Darfur rebel groups that they had been neglected by the national government. It called for the president to include a Darfur expert, initially nominated by the rebels, among his top advi...
To date, between 200,000 and 400,000 Black Africans living in Darfur have been slaughtered by government troops and heavily armed, government-backed Arab militias, known as Janjaweed who have wreaked terror and havoc across Darfur through death squads and aerial assaults by government planes dropping bombs on villages, resulting in the displacement of some 3 million people who have fled their homes taking refuge in neighboring Chad, and in refugee camps scattered throughout Darfur. Actor George Clooney's father, [Nick Clooney] a former TV anchorman who recently toured the devastated region along with George, told the crowd, "We didn't stop the Holocaust. We didn't stop Cambodia. We didn't stop Rwanda. But this one we can stop. Among the chief points of contention brought up by the rebe...
DAKAR, Senegal -- Thousands of refugees fleeing attacks by Arab militias and Sudanese army bombs in the ravaged western region of Darfur have flooded into neighboring Chad, the United Nations said Sunday, and many more may be on their way as Sudan strikes back at a rebel offensive in the area. The attacks throw a region sundered by conflict into still deeper chaos as a volatile mix of rebels, government forces and ethnic militias jockey to control a vast and unforgiving stretch of semidesert that straddles the two troubled countries. Just a week ago, Chadian rebels based in Sudan tried to topple Chad's government, making it all the way to the gates of the presidential palace in Ndjamena before being beaten back.
The government quickly sanctioned Arab militiamen - known as the Janjaweed - to attack not only the rebels, but also innocent Darfurians, and burn their villages and rape women and girls. The goal was, and still is, to wipe out and dehumanize a whole group of people. Because villages were destroyed, many Darfurians have fled to neighboring [Chad] and the Central African Republic to refugee camps; but the danger subsequently followed, with Darfurians met with the fear that is the Janjaweed every day. Dr. Martin Luther King once said, "History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people." The quote was meant for the Civil Rights Movement, but could also be appl...
We've spent almost $200 billion on the war in Iraq. There is no reason the international community cannot find the $350 million needed by the U.N. to finance shipments of food and medicine to Darfur and neighboring Chad, which has absorbed most of the more than one million refugees. The U.S. and Britain have given $89 million and $52 million, respectively, while France and Japan have each pledged just $3 million to the effort so far. We should urge these and other countries to do more, but if they do not, we must fill in the gaps. If overthrowing Saddam was worth $200 billion, surely saving a million lives in Darfur is worth a larger commitment than we've made so far. The people being slaughtered in Darfur are Muslims of Black African descent who have traditionally been marginalized by ...
The government quickly sanctioned Arab militiamen - known as the Janjaweed - to attack not only the rebels, but also innocent Darfurians, and burn their villages and rape women and girls. The goal was, and still is, to wipe out and dehumanize a whole group of people. Because villages were destroyed, many Darfurians have fled to neighboring [Chad] and the Central African Republic to refugee camps; but the danger subsequently followed, with Darfurians met with the fear that is the Janjaweed every day. Dr. Martin Luther King once said, "History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people." The quote was meant for the Civil Rights Movement, but could also be appl...
A proposed bill floating through the Legislature would let cities team up on tax incentives for development projects. The bill, co-authored by a pair of Green Bay Republicans, Rep. Chad Weininger and Sen. Robert Cowles, would let neighboring municipalities create tax incremental finance districts that cross city borders.
It's not a pretty picture," David Rosenberg says about genocide in the Sudanese region of Darfur. "While some of the violence has diminished, it's still a highly volatile situation where there have been mass murders, kidnappings, torture, and where between two and two-and-a-half million citizens have been displaced, living in refugee camps in neighboring Chad and within Darfur. Our government and the international community have to go farther than they ever have before to save these innocent civilians.
While the killings and gang rapes in Darfur, and among refugee camps in neighboring Chad, are increasing after the so-called "peace agreement" on May 5, the genocidal president of Sudan, Gen. Omar Hassan al-Bashir, absolutely refuses to allow entry to U.N. peacekeepers to supplement the inadequate, though brave, African Union mission in Darfur. Declaring that these would be "colonial forces," the ruthless al- Bashir accuses Jewish groups of organizing for U.N. intervention. "If we return to the last demonstrations in the United States, and the groups that organized the demonstrations," said al-Bashir on June 21 (Associated Press), "we find they are all Jewish organizations." (Actually, a rainbow of many religious groups organized the demonstration.)
In the past two years, the genocide in the Darfur region of Sudan has crept into our consciousness. The unleashing of the Janjaweed, the Muslim militia that has carried out atrocities against ethnic African villagers in Darfur, has produced horrific stories of savagery and hatred. Refugees from the Darfur violence, estimated at more than 300,000, escaped to neighboring Chad, filling refugee camps that were equipped to handle only a fraction of the flood of displaces villagers, most of them women and children who have already lost their fathers and brothers to the genocide. The fact remains that what happens in Chad, and Sudan and Rwanda, is certainly something African-Americans should take notice of, and we should pressure our government to spend as much time and money trying deal with ...
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