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- VoteGOP, on 10/23/2009, -8/+34Africa will never get its act together.
- gigi52, on 10/23/2009, -3/+26Darfur isn't descending into chaos. It has been chaos for a long time. Why aren't the 'good' muslim countries trying to stop this madness? Are there any??
- al3xoath, on 10/23/2009, -1/+17and to think I woke up this morning and complained about my phone dying.
Sometimes it takes stuff like this to make you realize how good you really got it. - DeadSkinMask, on 10/23/2009, -0/+15Because they are mostly women, children and the elderly. They live in huts and have very little.
The people that attack them are trained militia men and have weapons that are mostly provided by the government.
I'd call the civilians pretty defenseless by comparison. - deinosmos, on 10/23/2009, -1/+14You say that with such finality. There's still plenty left to rape.
- appleseed1234, on 10/23/2009, -0/+13It's good to see all these protests haven't done jack *****.
- inactive, on 10/23/2009, -3/+15This isn't any kind of BS racism here, but Africa will probably never get their act together. With hundreds of years of European colonialism, and now, totally corrupted governments, I wish them well. When it comes to Africa, the West only cares about the countries that have oil. It's complicated. But I don't see it ever getting better. And that is very sad.
- DeadSkinMask, on 10/23/2009, -0/+9It's amazing how the GOS can not only let this happen to their people, but fund and support the groups are are carrying out this genocide. To think we would have learned from Rwanda. I guess not. It's happening again and the collective world barely cares and thinks sending some rice and grain and used clothing is going to fix mass murder.
Now is the time for the UN (and others) to stand up and get fully involved.
The only reason these people are being targeted is because they were born black.
Now a radical Islamic government is trying to eliminate them.
What if this were to happen in your country? - robopanda, on 10/23/2009, -3/+12Slideshow format sucks. Making people click through 23 pages trying to get a news story is just douchey.
- inactive, on 10/23/2009, -1/+10How does a slaughtered goat being "prepared for consumption" fit in with this story of chaos??
- Quaestor44, on 10/23/2009, -0/+9but what will sophomoric & idealistic college kids do now?
- captspaulding, on 10/23/2009, -0/+8They don't give a ***** about poor black muslims.
- BlackJackJester, on 10/23/2009, -0/+7People who live in the country have no money. They live in huts they build, they farm land they plant, and they trade in their communities. If they need basic supplies, they sell excess food for money to buy things - like toothpaste. Bunch of ***** roll in with guns - what do you think is going to happen?
- DeadSkinMask, on 10/23/2009, -1/+7There is oil in Sudan. Mostly owned by the Chinese.
- sonnybobiche, on 10/23/2009, -2/+7Not as long as we keep throwing aid money at them. It's easy to keep being a complete ***** if you know you'll be bailed out in the end.
- Dustmuffins, on 10/23/2009, -0/+5African countries get more help than any other country.
- Eurynom0s, on 10/23/2009, -3/+7OK, I don't give a ***** how bad it is over there, if your slideshow reloads the entire ***** page then I'm not interested!
- Barackalypse, on 10/23/2009, -7/+11It makes me want to fight to keep the freedoms I have, like the right to keep and bear arms to ensure if anyone wants to ethnically cleanse my village, they will pay mightily for the attempt.
- BlackJackJester, on 10/23/2009, -3/+7If the Chinese didn't purchase the oil they supply, the government wouldn't have money to wage war, and would leave the rural civilians in peace. It's a fairly direct supply chain. US buys China, China buys Sudan, Sudan buys guns. Bury me if you don't like it, but it's ***** true.
- Barackalypse, on 10/23/2009, -4/+8If your goal was oil, your move wouldn't be to spend $800 billion to invade and destabilize an oil producing country, then let the people elect their own Government and leave. If you wanted oil, you would have struck a deal with the dictator of the Country and lifted sanctions and just bought the oil on the open market ($800 billion buys 8 billion barrels of $100 a barrel oil). Why aren't we calling for regime change in Saudi Arabia, they have substantially greater daily oil output than Iraq?
- X9001, on 10/23/2009, -0/+3pot
- FaithclubDotNet, on 10/23/2009, -2/+5Don't forget when the US embargoed Sudanese oil, China said,"OVER HERE PLEASE!"
- Quaestor44, on 10/23/2009, -2/+5nah, its your fault.
- stevenwalters, on 10/23/2009, -3/+5But we wouldn't be able to give Halliburton all of the business if we did it that way. Nor would commodities traders be able to gouge the living daylights out oil prices with there being no instability. I didn't mean cheaper oil for all, silly man. I wish to be able to allocate who makes the money.
- ramilehti, on 10/23/2009, -0/+2Outsourcing at it's finest.
Seriously. This about as good as it gets. - snotrokit, on 10/23/2009, -5/+7more death in the name of a "god"
- Daerion, on 10/23/2009, -0/+2Yeah, prayer will fix it.
- BlackJackJester, on 10/23/2009, -0/+2that doesn't ***** work. If some white ***** comes into your country in a Land Rover, and gives you rubbers, you aren't going to ***** use them. If you make them pay for the rubbers - just 1 cent - that means they have to think about it, think to buy it, and realize that it's a good idea, as opposed to free handouts they don't give a ***** about.
- compucomp2, on 10/23/2009, -1/+3The answer to why the Americans didn't do anything about Rwanda is simple. France was supporting the genocide and actively covering the whole thing up, insisting they had the situation under control. The Americans didn't want to offend their allies, and thus didn't do anything.
Now because China merely trades with Sudan (France's involvement with the Hutu government of Rwanda was far beyond that), China is now evil, so why don't people condemn France for what happened in Rwanda? Western hypocrisy, that's why, as usual. - cyberdork, on 10/23/2009, -0/+2The 'UN Peacekeepers' are nothing more than military troops and equipment contributed by the UN member states. There is no such thing as a UN soldier.
Anyhow, show me a large accumulation of soldiers where rapes etc. don't happen! This has nothing to do with the UN.
Look at Kosovo, after the war and the establishment of Camp Bondsteel human trafficking towards that region picked up significantly and villages close to the camp were flooded with brothels running forced prostitution. - cyberdork, on 10/23/2009, -1/+3Maybe because the idea of sending your own troops to a country far far away to help complete strangers with whom you have zero economical ties is still a pretty novel idea which basically originated in the west just a couple of decades ago?
- stevenwalters, on 10/23/2009, -5/+7Yes, but that's the Chinese. I'm looking for someone who's much weaker to take oil from. You know, someone who could stand a "nation rebuild".
- cyberdork, on 10/23/2009, -1/+3LOL, I can already see it. A mob of armed ethnic cleansers rushing towards his home. He gets ready for his grand shootout. So, he looks out of the window and before he ever realized... PLOP he gets shot in the head..... yeah, mighty Barackalypse.
Watching too many Westerns, huh? - inactive, on 10/24/2009, -0/+1I'm sure it's because of the stringent gun control laws in Sudan.
- TomGfromCanada, on 10/23/2009, -1/+2its like fallout
- snotrokit, on 10/23/2009, -0/+1a knife to a chef or a woodworker is a tool. In the hands of a madman, it is a weapon.
- mavenworkforce, on 10/23/2009, -0/+1yes its true
- Rammat2, on 10/23/2009, -0/+1It's strange how trying to understand the genocide in Darfur is never explained. Supposedly, it's either Arabs killing Africans, or, Arabs killing black Christians. They never tell you much about WHY the "Arabs" are killing Africans or black Christians. It's never clear as to what's going on over there. I gave money to the refugees, but, never heard back from those I gave money to to help them. It makes me think I shouldn't give money anymore to them.
- boomerang42, on 10/23/2009, -4/+5You know, some of those guns that are given to these rebels are antique leftovers from WWII. They're giving these rebels actual Stg 44s, and Kar 98s, which are worth hundreds of thousands of dollars in the US. Shame, that.
- crashlock, on 10/24/2009, -0/+1Leave them to it.
- BotchaMcCoola, on 11/15/2009, -0/+1Sounds like another good place for al-Qaeda to grow.
- Dochirin, on 10/23/2009, -0/+1Only if you're way too lucky and find one with all the corresponding parts of the original weapon. Usually the weapons they have have been disassembled and reassembled so many times that they're like metallic Frankensteins, in most cases even using home-made spare parts or even modified parts of Russian models. Not to mention rust, corrosion, etc. As much you'll get 1 thousand Euro for a "good" one, and that is not even worth the effort of going to these *****.
- ramilehti, on 10/23/2009, -0/+1Use Autopager. No clicks. Just scroll.
- s2kadom, on 10/23/2009, -1/+2http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQwCCm-H-sU
- clone206, on 10/23/2009, -0/+1This is one of those times not being over-extended all over the world would come in really handy. Not that there's any excuse for sitting by and watching a genocide happen.
- Kickinuarou, on 10/23/2009, -3/+4And so it begins.....
Not since Mogadishu has the US interfered with Africa's problems, there's no way we're going back, trust me. - secrity, on 11/08/2009, -0/+1Then next explosive tech market isn't going to be Africa until the whole continent stops the wars and establishes stable governments.
- mavedatthews85, on 10/23/2009, -0/+1It's good to see this in Time, but we need to have reports on this situation monthly, if not weekly.
Title should be "Darfur descends BACK into chaos." - BinkyStuttocks, on 10/23/2009, -0/+1Probably not a long descent
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