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| Return of the janjaweed | |
| 2008-03-10 | |
The janjaweed are back.
The militiamen destroyed the town – burning huts, pillaging shops, carrying off any loot they could find and shooting anyone who stood in their way. Asha Abdullah Abakar, wizened and twice widowed, described how she hid in a hut, praying it would not be set on fire. "I have never been so afraid," she said. | |
| Posted by:Seafarious |
| #12 there is no money in ending the crisis. between weapons selling and the lootin ( what could they loot thoug) waybe major woeld power hire some blackwater type deal be used too assassimnate but like top secret |
| Posted by: sinse 2008-03-10 17:31 |
| #11 Clarification: "some air cover" = Khartoum rubbelized. That might get their attention. |
| Posted by: mojo 2008-03-10 16:23 |
| #10 A couple of AC-130s and a half-dozen A-10s using napalm would put a stop to this nonsense in its tracks. Of course, they'd have to have top cover to keep the Sudanese from attacking them, but that's ok, too. I wish we'd quit trying to fight a "clean" war and get on with the necessary killing, maiming, and mutilating that changes peoples' minds about starting a fight. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2008-03-10 13:22 |
| #9 It was five years ago last week that an attack by rebels from non-Arab tribes like the Fur, Masalit and Zaghawa seeking greater wealth and autonomy for the neglected and impoverished region of Darfur prompted the Arab-dominated government to marshal Arab militias in the region that ultimately evicted millions from their homes, burning, looting and raping along the way. The campaign effectively pushed many non-Arab people off their land and into vast, squalid camps across Darfur and neighbouring Chad. Well, at least buried among words like "rebels", "militia-men" and "government-backed troops", this writer allowed us the truth of what is really happening. |
| Posted by: Woodrow Slusorong7967 2008-03-10 12:01 |
| #8 Fearsome to anyone without guns. And the press, and the Euro Reaction Force, and the international community... Never been there but that's the way it sounds to me. Set up some bunkers around the town with .50 caliber machine guns and the ganga boys would be stopped dead in their camel tracks. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque (aka Ebbang Uluque6305) 2008-03-10 11:37 |
| #7 Maybe the war on the Janjaweed needs fought from Nevada, too. |
| Posted by: Thealing Borgia6122 2008-03-10 11:31 |
| #6 Fearsome to anyone without guns. And the press, and the Euro Reaction Force, and the international community... davemac |
| Posted by: Sonny Joluck1724 2008-03-10 10:18 |
| #5 "..UN Security Council authorises deployment of a 26,000-strong force for Darfur. Sudan agrees to co-operate with the hybrid peacekeeping force." If instead we had armed and minimally trained 26,000 Darfurians and provided them some air cover, this genocide problem would be solved. Of course they would then fight among themselves. |
| Posted by: mhw 2008-03-10 09:04 |
| #4 The EUro Reaction Force is in Brussels working on a strongly worded memo, Doc. You didn't expect them to be in Sudan, did you? |
| Posted by: Spot 2008-03-10 07:53 |
| #3 Hmmmph. I thought this was gonna be about some endangered species of smok'em. |
| Posted by: Whomolet tse Tung5088 2008-03-10 05:48 |
| #2 Wasn't the UN working "full steam" on a Plan to deal with the Darfur genocide, oh, about a year or two ago? Just curious. What became of that one? Or did they run out of lunch. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2008-03-10 03:00 |
| #1 ION, FREEREPUBLIC > ALBANIA IS THE NEW FOOTHOLD OF THE IRGC; + STRATEGYPAGE/TOPIX > A NEW CHECHNYA [Ingushetia] + ANALYSIS: IS ISLAMISM FINALLY TAKING OVER EUROPE? LT Consequence of KOSOVO. DEMOCRACY WILL SUCCEED/DO WHAT INVADING MUSLIM ARMIES HAD FAILED TO DO??? Also on FREEREPUBLIC > THE KOSOVO CATASTOPHE; + RIAN/TOPIX > RUSSIA WILL NOT APPROVE KOSOVAN INDEPENDENCE UNLESS SERBIA AGREES TO IT. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2008-03-10 01:54 |