Could this be the next step in Sudan’s Darfur campaign? (via)
President Omar al-Bashir lashed out Tuesday at foreign media and relief groups active in Darfur implying that aid organizations serving the some 2.5 million people forced to flee their homes could face expulsion.
The Sudanese leader’s warning follows the departure Monday by the United Nations chief envoy to Sudan, Jan Pronk, after the government gave him three days to leave the country.
Sudan’s government was working to “rid (refugee) camps of those exploiting the suffering of the people, those suspicious organizations who are part of a series of conspiracies,” the official news agency quoted al-Bashir as saying during his speech at the start of Muslims’ Eid al-Fitr vacation.
“We have promised before God not to let Darfurians’ suffering be a pretext for foreign intervention or a subject for hostile media,” al-Bashir said according to SUNA.
Well, why not? They have liitle to fear from the UN, and sanctions are unlikely to hurt given the oil-inspired boom currently underway. And if you want to stop hostile media attention, just do what the Chinese do in Tibet or Xinjiang – get rid of the media.
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