Peace and war in the Sudan ...

[The Last Conformist]

There's been complaints voiced on this very forum that you don't hear anything about the conflict in Darfur, so I thought I'd do my duty inform the masses by drawing attention to this Economist article on the subjet:

http://www.economist.com/agenda/displayStory.cfm?story_id=2711116

 

[Tassadar]

Good, this prove my points, let them solve their own problem. Whithout the west to interfer they will reach a mutual satisfactory agrement and live in peace hopefully for a long time.

If we had throw in peacekeeper then the conflict would have never ended.

 

[the mormegil]

Did you actually read the bit about continued conflict in Darfur by any chance?

I never even knew Sudan was in civil war for half a century!

 

[Tassadar]

Did you actually read the bit about continued conflict in Darfur by any chance?

Extract from the link,


THE world’s longest-running war is ending.


Thats all i need to know, little skirmish will end soon.

 

[the mormegil]

How do you know it will end soon, it could just a easily rip Sudan into civil war once again.

 

[The Last Conformist]

It can't - there already is civil war in Darfur.

And if Tassadar believes that America armwrestling Khartoum into accepting peace with the SPLA proves that such conflicts are better left to the participitants to solve, he's a fool.

 

[Tassadar]

Are you talking about this ?

In the western region of Darfur, the government is fighting two black Muslim rebel groups that took up arms last year in protest at ill-treatment by Sudan’s Arab elite. To crush the rebels, the Khartoum government has given an Arab militia, the janjaweed, a licence to rape, murder and terrorise black Africans in Darfur, who are presumed to back the rebels.

According to western standard, they may just fight some terrorist, or wait, mayby the rebels are the goodies here....

After what i saw at abou grahib i dont know which is which, here, to tell the truth. So how can i say which is the goodies and the badies into this country on the other side of the world. I am tired.

 

[The Last Conformist]

Are you talking about this ?

In the western region of Darfur, the government is fighting two black Muslim rebel groups that took up arms last year in protest at ill-treatment by Sudan’s Arab elite. To crush the rebels, the Khartoum government has given an Arab militia, the janjaweed, a licence to rape, murder and terrorise black Africans in Darfur, who are presumed to back the rebels.

According to western standard, they may just fight some terrorist, or wait, mayby the rebels are the goodies here....

Are you stupid or something? Whether the rebels are goodies or not is irrelevant to the question whether there is a civil war going one.

After what i saw at abou grahib i dont know which is which, here, to tell the truth. So how can i say which is the goodies and the badies into this country on the other side of the world. I am tired.

Nobdy ****ing cares whom you think are the bad or good guys.

 

[Tassadar]

Are you stupid or something? Whether the rebels are goodies or not is irrelevant to the question whether there is a civil war going one.

Nobdy ****ing cares whom you think are the bad or good guys.

You call it civil war, the sudanese governement can easily say that they fight terrorist, you got my point ?

And what yours ? i was just happy that this war is almost ended, and you guys jump on me And you dare asking me if i am stupid

 

[The Yankee]

Here's another article on the situation:

CNN.com

UK: Sudan needs urgent aid

Monday, May 31, 2004 Posted: 5:47 AM EDT (0947 GMT)

LONDON, England (AP) -- The humanitarian crisis in Sudan is "desperately serious" and urgently requires aid, Britain's International Development Secretary Hilary Benn said Monday.

A 15-month insurgency in the Darfur region of western Sudan, where fighting between the government and rebels has raised fears of ethnic cleansing of mainly African tribes by government-backed Arab militias, has made 1 million people homeless.

"We need to put all our effort internationally into making sure that aid supplies get to the people who need them, both along the border with Chad, where a lot of refugees have gone, but also to the very large number of people who have been internally displaced," Benn told British Broadcasting Corp. radio.

"One of the problems is we don't currently have a full picture of exactly what is going on."

The Sudanese government and rebel fighters are due to meet on June 22 in Nairobi to negotiate details of a comprehensive cease-fire that was agreed last week to end the 21-year civil war.

Benn said it was important to get monitors into Sudan to assess the situation.

"That is the best way that we can make sure the cease-fire holds, get the aid to the people in need and then, in time, try to find a resolution to this problem so that people can go back home," he said.

I really don't see how Tassadar can possibly say that everything's going to be hunky-dory if we ignore this.