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Sudan cuts ties with Chad after rebel attack

MOHAMED OSMAN

Associated Press

Latest comment posted at 11:49 PM EDT 11/05/08

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  1. Bohemian Grove Club Member from Canada writes: Thank You Chad!!!!!!! About time someone did something about it!
  2. Ed Long from white Rock, Canada writes: Ethnic African rebels attacking the government that sponsors Muslim rebels and the African Union peace-keeping force is where ....?

    Doesn't matter, peace-keeping doesn't fit in this world.
  3. Albin Forone from Canada writes: The existence of the rebel groups, who are on par with the janjaweed in objectives and tactics, is the sad, unspoken fact ignored by those decrying the Muslim "genocide" in Darfur. There have been three or four nasty sides to this mess all along, and it was idle posturing by the Bush administration to declare a "genocide" and then go into fetal position instead of forming another "coalition of the willing" to do Gawd's work. Not every humanitarian disaster is a "genocide" and the term has been terribly trivialized in recent years by standard bearers and faddists of all political stripes.
  4. kevin o'connor from Toronto, Canada writes: First, Don't believe a word this gov't says. Second, to Albin, sorry I have been to Darfur and spent 7 months working in refugee camps and outlying rural areas and this is a genocide. The rebels have splintered and are many of the groups are nothing better than bandits, but this is not the same, either in objectives or tactics, to the genocidal janjaweed and their ally, the gov't of sudan. The murdering, raping and elimination of african tribes in the area is based on race, so the genocidaires can have their land. this fits any definition of genocide. You would not think the term has been terribly trivialized if you had to spend a few days with the women who watched their men and children tortured and killed as they themselves were being tortured and raped. I certainly didn't.
  5. Ed Long from white Rock, Canada writes: Albin F. Your characterization of the U.S. is dead wrong.

    The U.S. and EU are funding the African Union peace-keeping force in Sudan.

    However it is typically Canadian to ignore the implications and scope of genocide because the resultant analysis requires that a nation that considers itself the "nice" country should take action. In the case of Sudan, we have neither the personnel or the equipment to intervene unilaterally in Africa's largest nation.

    However, the difficulty is that people like Kevin have been a witness to things beyond our imagination and accepting their experience means coming to terms with our impotence.

    Remember Rwanda, and it would never happen again.
  6. Karunaratne Jeyatilleke from Ottawa, Canada writes: pssst... Darfur is nothing compared to what is going on in Sri Lanka past two years... hundreds of people are dying each day!!!
  7. Roop Misir from Toronto, Canada writes:
    Real changes are those from within!
  8. Sam Patel from Canada writes: Karunaratne Jeyatilleke from Ottawa

    Sometimes people just have to fight it out. If you have never lost anything before you have no conception of risk or the need to compromise. Let them learn their lessons the same way the West learnt its own.

    The real benefit of this rebel attack on the capital is that the Sudanese gov't now knows that its calculations and assumptions are not all perfect. How embarassing for them, and their supposedly in charge leaders.
  9. Winston Smith from Canada writes: Karunaratne Jeyatilleke from Ottawa, Canada writes: pssst... Darfur is nothing compared to what is going on in Sri Lanka past two years.

    Sri Lanka is not on the radar screen because it has NO PETROLEUM resource.

    Sudan is important because it produces oil and the chinese cut a deal with the controlling group but the Condoleezza Rice's Chevron wants back in. That is the reason why Sudan "human rights" is raised as a big issue with Joe Public and not in Saudi Arabia, or Sri Lanka.
  10. Albin Forone from Canada writes: Ed L., the German and Rwandan holocausts taught us that when you see a "genocide" you are there yesterday, you are already kicking the living sh1t out of the perpetrators, you are not pussyfooting around with pious hand-wringing blah as if you are not the world's only military power. Why didn't that happen? Because there is no "genocide" - there is a humanitarian emergency created by a lot of little first person shooters who are themselves too young and too poor to read, write or think well enough to be properly genocidal, and are blindly following a bunch of despicable local war lords who are cartoons of any coherent political idea. That is the mess, that is why the US is paying off the AU at $8 per hour to cover it, instead of treating it like a "genocide" with a real intervention.
  11. Springfire From ShenZheng from China writes: So why West is blaming China for all this mess? Pathetic.
  12. Joe Kool from Canada writes: Psst... I don't know where you got your facts, but the conflict in Sri Lanka, while regrettable, does not come close to comparing to the levels of violence and devastation occurring in Darfur.

    http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/dbc.nsf/doc108?OpenForm&rc=3&emid=ACOS-635PHK

    Why are we whispering? It doesn't matter how quiet you say it... it's still wrong

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