civilians were killed during an attack on the city of El Geneina, in west Darfur, last October, according to UN investigators. Most of the victims were from ethnic African groups….
Nine million people have been displaced since the fighting erupted in Sudan last April, first in street battles in the capital, Khartoum, and later spreading to other urban areas and to the vast Darfur region. The death toll from a year of conflict is not known, but some estimations put it as high as 150,000. Aid agencies warn of a looming famine with 25 million people in need of aid.
No one's interested, though. Wrong perpetrators.
Whoever's doing the PR for Arabs is doing one hell of a job. One of the darkest imperial expansions – across northern Africa as Islam was spread by the sword: ignored or downplayed, as only Western imperialism counts. Look at all those lovely mosques they built! The brutal history of centuries of slavery – black Africans dragged, chained, in camel trains across the deserts to Arabia, and the Barbary Coast raids on northern Europe: only the Atlantic slave trade counts.
And now, largely Arab groups slaughter black Africans and have "slave hunts", with women and girls being rounded up…it doesn't make the news apart from the odd largely ignored report on the back pages, like this. In Gaza, though, the Arabs are the biggest victims ever as the Israelis take strong action to counter the Hamas Islamic jihad against Jews, and the world explodes in protest. It's genocide, they cry.
Nice work if you can get it.
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