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...Tragedy of Sudan I have been haunted and sickened by the photos and news coming out of Sudan [Oct. 4]. Most of the world seems to ignore completely the genocide in the region of Darfur carried out by the government-backed Janjaweed Arab militia against non-Arab Muslims. Although I am wondering what I can do to help, world leaders appear to be waiting for the murder to come to an end magically. With all the wealth and power in this world, why aren't they jumping in to save the people in Darfur? Are Sudanese oil interests and political...
...Darfur male children are being murdered because the Janjaweed believe they could be future enemies. How dare my country ignore this grim situation! Why is genocide allowed in this day and age? Is it because it is happening on a continent that is mostly black? How can we turn a blind eye to this African Holocaust? You reported that Secretary of State Colin Powell, in congressional testimony, stated his conclusion "that genocide has been committed in Darfur, and that the government of Sudan and the Janjaweed bear responsibility, and that genocide may still be occurring." But in this election year...
...situation in Darfur reminded me of the lawless state of nature described by the philosopher Thomas Hobbes, in which life is "nasty, brutish and short." If urgent steps are not taken by the Sudanese government and the international community to end the Darfur atrocities, the fighting may extend to the neighboring East African region and further deteriorate the existing socioeconomic and political problems of the entire African continent. Okeke Jide Martyns Bradford, England...
...have done a service in under-scoring the human tragedy in the devastated nation of Sudan. In this era of technological and economic advances, to learn about the gruesome conditions in Darfur was a shock. It shows the amount of work yet to be accomplished by all nations in spreading education and humane values and in eradicating hunger and poverty. Rajendra Aneja Bombay...
...have an obligation, as the author rightly claims, to help stop the violence in Darfur and to alleviate the suffering of the hundreds of thousands of refugees. The Janjaweed and other groups perpetrating atrocities must be stopped, and the Sudanese government must be held accountable for its actions. But villainizing of the Arabic-speaking people of Darfur does an injustice to the Arab victims of the violence and conveys a thoroughly inaccurate picture of this tragic conflict...