World must race against time to save Darfur -Annan

[ElsewheresDaughter]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050526/ts_nm/africa_darfur_dc/nc:716



ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan urged donors on Thursday to fund a bigger African peace mission to help end bloodshed in Darfur, where experts say hundreds are dying daily from war, hunger and disease.


Annan warned rich nations at a pledging conference in neighboring Ethiopia that they would end up having to finance an "epic relief effort" if more violence made food even scarcer in the remote west of Sudan, Africa's largest country.

"We are running a race against time. The rainy season and the 'hunger gap' are approaching fast,

[meegbear]

1. Unless they find oil ...

we won't be helping them soon.

It's a horrible sin.

[sam sarrha]

2. Tibet has been an abattoir of genocide since 1959.. 1.25 million murdered

by the Chinese government..to steal their resources. forced labor death camps, starvation, destruction of housing in Himalayan winter and just outright murder.

people have gotten so casual about genocide why would anyone think Darfur is special..? history repeating itself.. sorry but i think they are Fucked.. unless there is oil..but then they would be REALLY fucked by us.. :cry: :grouphug:

[Solly Mack]

3. There IS oil in the Sudan and there IS oil in Darfur region

Bush is waffling away from genocide because Sudan is a buddy now in the war on terror.... but the people are dying. When they aren't being butchered, they are being starved to death.



http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0430-06.htm

http://www.globalpolicy.org/empire/terrorwar/analysis/2005/0429sudan.htm

[sam sarrha]

4. so the Joint'J'weed ARE working for us.. tha is why nothing is being done!

figures... that has got to be the reason... clear the land of whiners that might want a cut of the oil money.. and the JointJweed will just kill for free to please Allah..

[Karenina]

7. Reduce the "excess"

(brown) population. PNAC bullet point #X.
CHECK!

[Solly Mack]

8. Pretty much

that's my take on it as well.

Since the "refugees" are "getting in the way" of oil production and "intelligence" (cough cough on intelligence)

[applegrove]

5. Check out today's Darfur Daily News May 26, 2005

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=3736412#

[ElsewheresDaughter]

6. these threads get about as much attention as the straving Sudanese people

from president bush*

:cry: :cry: :cry: