IMPOTENT U.N. ALLOWS DARFUR GENOCIDE TO CONTINUE

Sudanese President Omar El Bashir and his government are obstructing the deployment of a United Nations force to Darfur. Since February 2003, the Sudanese government has engaged in the systematic extermination of black tribes, bombing villages, destroying crops and poisoning the water supplies. Mass starvation threatens to decimate the remaining refugees. So far, some estimates calculate 400,000 people have died.

Arab Janjaweed militias have aided those in power do most of the dirty work. The government provides weapons and support for the militias. Sometimes, they conduct joint operations. Together, they raze villages where their poor victims live, murdering and raping at will. There are reports of men and boys who bleed to death after suffering castration. The repeated raping of women by numerous assailants is commonplace.

My question to the United Nations is, “What are you waiting for?” Do you need permission from El Bashir to prevent this genocide from continuing? Forget about sanctions. Invade the country. Just go in there and set things right. Otherwise, what are you good for, United Nations?

Many of you sitting there are intellectual and moral hypocrites who know nothing about leadership or justice. That is why you laughed along with Hugo Chávez as he insulted and made fun of President Bush last week. That is why you gave that swine Chávez a four-minute standing ovation. That is why your countries are underdeveloped third world countries, because people like you are not fit to govern; and you are not fit to govern because you are despicable lowlifes. Do you see the connections?

In Darfur, we have ethnic cleansing taking place. Arab Muslims are killing black Muslims. Yet, the Islamic world is silent for the most part. Why is that? I know the Jewish people are not involved in the conflict. If the Jews were doing to the Palestinians what the Sudanese government is doing to these tribes, the Islamic world would have gone to war with Israel. Therefore, the current status quo is not acceptable. Otherwise, we would have to assume Islam condones racism and genocide. Extremists who call for the destruction of the state of Israel obviously support the latter, but I hope most Muslims do not.

It is up to whatever real leadership we can find in the United Nations to put an end to this episode. My hope is they do so quickly. Four hundred thousand victims are much more than the modern human conscience should be willing to bear. I do not think genocide is a category in which we should want to see world records broken. After the Jewish Holocaust by the Nazis in World War II, humankind said never again. I guess we forgot it during the Rwanda conflict, when hundreds of thousands Tutsis were slaughtered by Hutus. Now this has been going on in Darfur for three years while we watch passively.

Let us do something about it. The world needs cleansing, but it is not ethnic cleansing. We need to get rid of the criminal rulers and despotic regimes in our world. The sooner we do it, the better our world will be. If we do not come to the aid of people suffering persecution and annihilation, we should not expect any help if we find ourselves in the same situation.

Recommended Reading: Ercian Testament - Part Three, chapter 27, “Proligion Revisited.”