U.S. says Darfur is getting worse

[oberliner]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States, which is trying to get Khartoum to accept a U.N. force in Darfur, said on Friday Sudan was preparing a new offensive in its devastated western province and that rebels there were rearming.

Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, Jendayi Frazer, who spoke before leaving for a visit to Sudan, said the situation was getting much worse in Darfur and a U.N. force was needed urgently to stop what Washington has called genocide.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060826/ts_nm/sudan_usa_dc_4

[Kickoutthejams23]

1. Who is this Darfur fellow and how does he know the Ramseys?

Sad but true. Nice job 24 cable news. :banghead:

[azurnoir]

3. And this Darfur fellow

might be black and some black people think George doesn't care about them; can't have that in a election year. So its time to maybe help him out a bit.:evilgrin:

[JI7]

2. the fact is that the United States has enough power to do something

here if they really want to. by the "United States" i mean specifically the President.

[Igel]

7. For example? n/t

[...of J.Temperance]

4. Dammit, if ONLY Darfur had some oil

I thought that the powers that be would have at least learned something from the Rwanda mess.


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[Solly Mack]

6. Darfur DOES have oil

War of the Future:
Oil Drives the Genocide in Darfur
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0819-26.htm

http://www.guardian.co.uk/sudan/story/0,14658,1503470,00.html
http://www.twf.org/News/Y2004/0807-Darfur.html
http://sudanwatch.blogspot.com/2005/04/oil-found-in-south-darfur-oil-issues.html
http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=12146
http://www.theepochtimes.com/news/4-12-20/25114.html
http://www.alertnet.org/thefacts/reliefresources/111885496661.htm

[cali]

5. kick

That the world has stood by and watched genocide occur yet again, is just discouraging

[Igel]

8. But the good news is that the LRA is

talking, so maybe that'll be resolved.

Perhaps Sudan has stopped supplying them with arms. The LRA no longer serves its strategic or ideological purpose.