Quick to Condemn, World Slow to Deliver Aid to Darfur

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http://allafrica.com/stories/200408120007.html

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Although quick to condemn brutalities in Sudan, the international community has been painfully slow to respond to a U.N. appeal for more aid and for troops to serve in a peacekeeping force in the western province of Darfur.

Tens of thousands of villagers have been killed in the area and more than one million people forced from their homes after government-backed militias launched a campaign months ago that some observers are labelling "genocide."

In July, the U.N. Security Council issued a 30-day ultimatum to Khartoum to rein in the "janjaweed" fighters, yet on Tuesday reports continued to emerge that ethnic Arab militias are still attacking ethnic African villagers.

While the international community continues to hotly debate what action to take against Khartoum, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan has complained that although he appealed for 349 million dollars in humanitarian aid for the region, only 161 million dollars have been pledged so far.
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1. Lost credibility in Arab world helps slow response

But the very idea of a military intervention has generated strong protests from the League of Arab States, whose members say western nations, particularly the United States and Britain, have lost their credibility after invading Iraq in 2003 on the grounds that it was developing weapons of mass destruction -- which have still not been found in the now-occupied country.

Additionally, the discovery of oil in southern Sudan has raised more suspicions of western motives -- as in oil-rich Iraq.

"The tendency is to see anything that comes from the United States as a big lie," says Hassan Abu Taleb, deputy director of the Al Ahram Centre for Political and Strategic Studies in Cairo. "Some even doubt the catastrophic images of Darfur because they come from the western media," he added.

Like just about every utterance from the corrupt and neofascist amerikan empire: ONE BIG LIE after another.

"Let them eat oil," smirked the awol chimpanzee.

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2. No action without motives for US

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