[Mb-civic] Arab Genocide, Arab Silence - Washington post

[William Swiggard]

Arab Genocide, Arab Silence

By Joseph Britt
Wednesday, July 13, 2005; Page A21

What responsibility do Arabs have to stop genocide being committed by Arabs?

Genocide in the Darfur region of western Sudan, inflicted on mostly 
Muslim African tribespeople by the nomadic Arab militias called 
janjaweed with the enthusiastic assistance of the Arab-dominated 
Sudanese government, has been going on for over two years now. In 
response, nations from western and central Africa have sent peacekeeping 
troops; various Western countries, including the United States, have 
pledged many millions of dollars in aid. Western diplomats led by Deputy 
Secretary of State Robert Zoellick have worked feverishly to stop the 
massacres, rapes and forced relocations that the Sudanese government has 
employed as its weapons of choice.

<>Absent from the picture have been the other Arab states. This is 
exceedingly strange, and not just because most of Darfur's victims are 
Muslims. Darfur is thousands of miles away from any of the Western 
countries trying to stop the genocide there; even the African nations 
sending peacekeepers are remote. Meanwhile, Egypt, with a huge army, a 
modern air force and more contacts within Sudan than every Western 
country combined, has looked on while as many as 400,000 people have 
been slaughtered just beyond its southern border and has, in effect, 
done nothing.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/12/AR2005071201366.html 

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