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Thursday, July 08, 2004Non-baseball: Gotta' be exact!How many murders constitute genocide? Does anybody know? God forbid we should jump the gun and label the mass murder of an entire ethnic group genocide before the proper amount of blood has been spilled. On today's Special Report w/ Brit Hume, Congressman Frank Wolf, who recently returned from a tour of the region, described how the Sudanese government is providing material aid to the Janjaweed militias in their brutal campaign to "ethnically cleanse" Darfur's African population. It seems that the regular military and the supposedly independent Janjaweed have quite a "pick-and-roll" working. Sudanese aircraft (of the Soviet-era) will start by carpet bombing an African village, followed by the arrival of Sudanese gunships, which mow down anyone who attempts to flee. That's when the Arab militias storm in on camel and horseback, slaughtering the men and raping the women (with the intention of making "light-skinned babies"). After they've had their fill of carnage they reduce the village to ashes- but not before they pillage anything of value, reportedly loading their booty onto the government helicopters. There can be no doubt about what's happening here- the Sudanese government is attempting to wipeout the African people of Darfur, via proxy. The French are still insisting on calling this a "civil war" and are threatening to block any US-led attempts to sanction the Sudanese government. I'm sure it comes as no surprise to learn that France holds the majority of oil concessions in Sudan (via Instapundit). Obviously this would cause Mr. Chirac to think twice before taking any action against his friends in the Sudanese government. And we're supposedly the oil-hungry ones. How much blood will be on Jacque Chirac's hands by the time this thing is over? And it goes without saying that whatever changes the UN made to combat genocide after Rwanda/Serbia have failed miserably... |
