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NEWS & LETTERS, December 2004Our Life and Timesby Kevin A. Barry Darfur genocideNew fighting broke out in Sudan’s Darfur region in November, as the Sudan Liberation Movement launched a small-scale attack on a government outpost in Tawila, killing 15 police. The government then bombed the village, killing 25 civilians. Since the Sudanese military and the janjaweed militia began their "ethnic cleansing" of Darfur in January, the UN estimates that 1.6 million non-Arabs termed "Africans" have been driven from their homes and 70,000 have been killed or died of hunger/disease. Hundreds of thousands more face starvation, stranded in inaccessible areas during the rainy season. As in Bosnia in the 1990s, these attacks have included the wholesale execution of adult males and rape on a mass scale of women and girls. As in Bosnia as well, the UN has tried to blame "both sides" for what is a campaign of genocide by government forces. Many Arab and Third World governments have tacitly or openly defended the racist regime against Western critics. In contrast, students at the University of Khartoum have courageously demonstrated against their government’s campaign of terror. |
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