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...Darfurians, mainly from the Fur, Masalit, and Zaghawa ethnic groups, have been massacred by the Janjaweed Arab militias, which, thanks to the financial support of the central government in Khartoum, have been ravaging the western region of the country since November. Stirred by President Omar Hassan Ahmed al-Bashir??€™s incitements of ethnic and racial hatred, Janjaweed fighters were given $100 each, supplied with heavy arms and told that whatever they pillaged would be theirs to keep. They have raped, massacred and destroyed at will. They have stolen international food aid and used it as horse feed, forced...
...Janjaweed militias have also established concentration camps in places like Kialek. That torture camps are sprouting up on Sudanese soil is not surprising given President al-Bashir??€™s long-established record of inciting hate. This is the same man who oversaw the literal enslavement of Christian Sudanese in the southern part of his country. The progression from hate to slavery to genocide has been quite natural for this regime. In fact, as Suliman Giddo of the Darfur Peace and Development Organization reports, the Janjaweed have of late been surpassing their own record in cruelty: as of April, instead...
Judging by Martin Bashir??€™s documentary Living with Michael Jackson, it’s evident that Michael Jackson isn’t an ordinary member of society. Ordinary people don’t have to worry about throngs of people congregating wherever they venture, snapping pictures and staring slack-jawed. Ordinary people don’t have to cover their children’s faces with masks in public or contemplate how to school them without subjecting them to judgmental peers and teachers. For Jackson, our conception of a normal life is foreign. In his situation, you ultimately...