Darfur

Shame on us. Shame on us all for being passive bystanders. In this very moment, people are getting slaughtered in Darfur. As many as 300 000 may already have been murdered, and 2 million is on the run. The UN calls it "events similar to genocide". That is bulls**t. It doesn't really matter whether it exactly matches the criteria set in the Genocide Convention or not; when 300 000 people is murdered it is genocide and nothing else.

We are all keen to talk about how we failed to stop the genocide in Rwanda a decade ago, and that it must never happen again. But it is. Right now, right in front of our eyes. And we still do nothing. Sure, we send some food and other stuff to aid those in the refugee camps, but that does not stop the killing, does it? The African Union has sent 7000 troops to protect the people, but these troops are ill equipped and can't do much. However, it is worth noticing that the first 300 troops sent to Darfur was from Rwanda. A bit ironic, maybe. It is estimated that some 70 000 well equipped troops (that most likely means western troops) would be needed to stop the bloodshed. USA is kinda busy in Iraq, and really don't have will to engage in another big scale operation at the moment, especially in a low-priority country like Sudan. Who cares about some poor black people in a strange country in Africa.... The EU is quite good at condemning the massacres, but it ends there. No action is really taken. Shame on us.