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Africa: Horn
Sudan massacres are not genocide, says EU
2004-08-10
The EU said yesterday there was widespread violence in the Darfur region of Sudan but the killings were not genocidal, a potentially crucial distinction which underlined its absolute unwillingness reluctance to intervene. "We are not in the situation of genocide there," Pieter Feith, an adviser to the EU's foreign policy chief, Javier Solana, said in Brussels after returning from a fact-finding visit to Sudan.
"No, no! Certainly not!"
"But it is clear there is widespread, silent and slow killing and village burning of a fairly large scale. There are considerable doubts as to the willingness of Sudan's government to assume its duty to protect its civilian population against attacks." He said in the absence of willingness to send a significant military force, the EU and others had little choice but to cooperate with Khartoum.
And that absence of willingness is something we can take as a given...
The announcement is bound to anger those impatient for stronger international pressure on Sudan. Last month the US House of Representatives voted by 422 votes to nil to describe Khartoum's actions as genocide, a conclusion shared by several analysts who say there is no other term for the systematic slaughter, rape and expulsions. But the White House, the African Union and groups such as Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International have so far avoided using the g-word. At least 30,000 people are thought to have died and 1 million displaced in what the UN has called the world's worst humanitarian crisis.
"What's 30,000 deaders? A drop in the African bucket! And they're all colored guys. They don't feel pain like we do..."
Posted by:Steve White

#17  Now see, Genocide is only committed by the US and UK against Jihadi's. So the EU and UN can't call it Genocide cause it's not us doing it. Besides, if they piss these guys off, they'll stop giving the UN delegates all their under the table money/drugs/children.

Death to the UN!
Posted by: Silentbrick   2004-08-11 00:47  

#16  I hear ya a too... need about 96 more C-17s, buy, 'em dont play leasing games.
Posted by: Shipman   2004-08-10 20:48  

#15  Rummy has been working on the military of the future, I am sure. I have a feeling, though, that our airlift capability is being stressed to hard and needs to be expanded.

Well, all the crap about leasing Boeing jets didn't help .....
Posted by: anon too   2004-08-10 19:55  

#14  Those nuanced idiots won't even admit it's happening when the islamonazis start committing genocide on the EUros.

Barbara, in light of such gutless twaddle as this, one is almost obliged to hope you are right.
Posted by: Zenster   2004-08-10 19:23  

#13  The EUros wouldn't recognize genocide if it bit them in the butt, even though they're masters at committing it.

Those nuanced idiots won't even admit it's happening when the islamonazis start committing genocide on the EUros. Shortly.
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut   2004-08-10 17:03  

#12  Maybe the EU is awating the completion of a bar-graph breaking down the murders by ethnicity, race and religion.
Posted by: Super Hose   2004-08-10 17:00  

#11  Pay no attention to those helicopter gunships!!!
Posted by: tu3031   2004-08-10 16:38  

#10  What do you expect the EU and the UN to do, based upon their record? Hell, they cannot clean up the mess in their backyard of the former Yugoslavia. They asked Slick Willie instead. While all these highly educated EUnics are debating whether the pattern and quantity of killing fits the definition of genocide, tens of thousands are dying at the hands of murderers. Bunch of morally bankrupt souls the EUnics are. Raises my boiler pressure if I do not watch it.

On another note, if we are going to save the world and ourselves, we better reassess our military AND especially our airlift and sealift capability. Rummy has been working on the military of the future, I am sure. I have a feeling, though, that our airlift capability is being stressed to hard and needs to be expanded.
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2004-08-10 16:36  

#9  A pile of corpses by any other name would smell as foul...
Posted by: jules 187   2004-08-10 10:06  

#8  Why, everybody knows that the term "genocide" is simply a metaphor for the human rights abuses at Gitmo.

/LLL
Posted by: BH   2004-08-10 09:58  

#7  Super Hose your last sentence is so right on. My Momma raised me to get upset by stuff like government sponsored murder of black people so it's hard to keep silent while is goes on. This time the US will be on record calling this a genocide (at least some folks.) Having a full plate as we do there is little we can do about it. The Beeb and the U.K. government made some noise and France magicly moved some forces to the border in Chad to "protect" refugees but it's way to little and they will never cross the border to defend a soul.

Solana's "widespread, silent and slow killing" shows him for the soul-less self serving political POS he is. What a total assclown.
Posted by: FlameBait93268   2004-08-10 05:48  

#6  pathetic.
Posted by: B   2004-08-10 04:15  

#5  Lucky, I'd like to think that race is not a factor in this case, nor was it a factor in the Ivory Coast nor Rwanda, but the pattern is hard to mistake. I beleive that the EU likes to declare genocide retroactively - after there is no longer anything to be done. I wish that we would go ahead and demonostrate our unilateralism once again and declare genocide. We ould point out that the EU and UN are naked at the same time. Wouldn't want to ruffle feathers, though. Got to be careful not to be the first to declare genocide or else France and Germany will refuse to send troops.
Posted by: Super Hose   2004-08-10 02:54  

#4  They're BLA-aCK!
Posted by: Lucky   2004-08-10 02:33  

#3  I'm sure that the fact that they are not victims of genocide but only of "widespread, silent and slow killing" will be of great relief to the denizens of Dafur.

The job of EU policy chief was made for Javier Solana. I'm sure he was able to utter his remarks with a straight face.
Posted by: Super Hose   2004-08-10 01:36  

#2  PS: F&%k "diplo-speak" and all the mindless, spineless whores who use it.
Posted by: Zenster   2004-08-10 00:30  

#1  But the White House, the African Union and groups such as Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International have so far avoided using the g-word.

And the White House, the African Union, Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International can all pound genocidal sand up their collective @sses. It's genocide, pure and simple, just like the beginnings of the Holocaust. All denial is merely appeasement of the murderous b@stards causing this crime against humanity.
Posted by: Zenster   2004-08-10 00:29  

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