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http://www.sudantribune.com/article.php3?id_article=10516
I know I said this blog is about the state of our nation but the fact that we hardly criticized the government in Darfur but can swiftly deal with Saddam for his undemocratic ways including his “gassing of the Kurds” says a lot about the hypocrisy of our leadership. This includes the previous one too.
Refugees fleeing . . . from a village called Saleya described how nine boys were seized by the janjaweed, stripped naked and tied up, their noses and ears cut off and their eyes gouged out. They were then shot dead and left near a public well. Nicholas Kristof, reporting from Sudan about the genocide in Darfur (”Uncover Your Eyes,” The New York Times, June 7)
Bush has lost interest in the relentless destruction of these black Africans because, as the June 7 Financial Times reported, “US officials say Sudan is [now] a valuable partner [with the United States] in the ‘global war on terror.’
The above is second hand sourcing from a piece on the Sudan situation by
The Village Voice’s Nat Hentoff found here: http://villagevoice.com/news/0527,hentoff,65564,6.html
As you read this anyone with a bit of conscience would want to start the letter writing campains and protests as Nat Hentoff did. It will not do a thing though, especially here in the USA. To understand why it will fall on deaf ears in this country as Hentoff has found, I think a study of the psychopath may be in order. All about psychopaths here: http://www.cassiopaea.com/cassiopaea/psychopath.htm
