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2004-01-16 Africa: East

UN notes Sudanese actions in Darfur could trigger regional problems

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Posted by Dan Darling 2004-01-16 12:20:08 AM|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 You know, I'm easily lead. What the hell is going on here. This seems like a nightmare of "who's your buddy, who's your pal."

I'm in need of conflict resolution. A Rantburg associate would be welcomed.

Posted by Lucky 2004-1-16 12:43:42 AM|| 2004-1-16 12:43:42 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Lucky - If you are looking for the good guys then there aren't any. But there are less bad guys. The worst of them is the Sudanese regime which is the worst of my lifetime. Worse than Pol Pot and Kimmie. The best of them are probably Uganda which had its own loony butcher and now appreciates why they are a bad idea, Eritrea, which fought for 30 years to gets its independance and seems a beacon of religious tolerance in the region, and Chad which had long running civil war fueled by Libya and seems to now have a reasonable government. Ethiopa, I'm not sure about. They don't seem to have shaken 15 years of hardline marxist habits and I get the feeling they are gearing up for new war against Eritrea.

What is to be done? I have no real idea, short of loading up C130s with crates of weapons and dropping them at random over the region, such that those with the most popular support and not the most firepower would probably win.

Otherwise forced partition of the Sudan using referendums to figure out where the borders of the new states are. To hard to organize! So just partition and pay neighbouring states to do the dirty work. Offer enough money and it would probably work and we are not talking about a lot of money - a few hundred millions. The UN, the arab street and the Left would go apeshit but who cares.

Posted by phil_b 2004-1-16 3:09:53 AM|| 2004-1-16 3:09:53 AM|| Front Page Top

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