180,000 and 300,000 dead in Sudan,where is the gnashing of teeth?

[Swede]

On May 5, a larger faction of the SLM led by Minawi signed a peace deal with Khartoum in the Nigerian capital Abuja to bring an end to a civil war in the western Sudanese region that left between 180,000 and 300,000 dead and more than 2.4 million people displaced.


http://www.sudantribune.com/article.php3?id_article=16553

[Rex]

1. No oil or strategic positions in Sudan.

Just Osama Bin Laden, and NO one wants to find him evidently.

[Swede]

2. No blow by blow updates unlike the IP conflict.

Go figure.

[Rex]

7. Ain't it the truth!

nt

[lonestarnot]

3. Degree of darkness of skin tones I guess.

[in_cog_ni_to]

4. Sorry. Wrong color.

:sarcasm:

[Swede]

5. I'm gonna have to agree with you.

What other reason could there be?

[in_cog_ni_to]

9. There is no other reason.

:( It has to be the color of their skin. Look at NOLA. Had Kennebunkport (daddy psycho's house is there) been hit like that, what do you suppose would have been done? The place would have been rebuilt immediately.

[jonnyblitz]

12. i don't think you need the :sarcasm: thing , it's true. nt

[tnlefty]

6. Everytime that I think about all of the money being wasted to blow up

Iraq, I have to ask myself in how many better ways the money could be used. Intervention, feeding and clothing people? To help the displaced, wounded, etc.

Sometimes it is just an emotional overload.

[sweetheart]

8. Reverse Monroe Doctrine

American gets to fuck up south America, and Europe gets to fuck up Africa,
thus it is not written and never said, and shall be done.

[Sapphire Blue]

10. Mine takes the form of phone calls, letters, emails, postcards...

... to Congress, and even that idiot in the WH, while encouraging/begging others to do the same.

Yesterday I called the WH requesting that bush appoint a Special Envoy for Sudan of "high rank and stature." (Yesterday was national call-in day for this.)

(Edited to add: ... and sometimes I scream: http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Sapphire%20Blue/90)

[Zhade]

11. Shameful. SHAMEFUL!

NT!

[malaise]

13. You are correct

Africa receives little or no attenion.

[Jara sang]

14. Those are just black people. Nobody cares.

Overt racism in America has merely turned into apathy and ignorance.