Hotel Sudan

...may or may not exist, but the situation tolls the familiar bells of Rwanda.

"A Sudanese family waits for humanitarian aid in Morni camp in Darfur. The U.N. Security Council passed a resolution on July 31 threatening sanctions against Sudan if the government doesn’t disarm the Janjaweed militia within 30 days."

With one race, the Arabs, determined to wipe out another, the Black Sudanese, the fact remains that people are making too big a deal out of the word "genocide." Whether or not it falls under the definition doesn't change the fact that people are being displaced, terrorized, and killed. Thousands have died, and the millions who weren't murdered live, but live in Hell. What difference does it make to them whether certain protocols are followed, certain procedures stuck to? All they want is for the atrocities to stop.

"Displaced Sudanese women line up to receive food at Kasab Internally Displaced People's camp near Kutum in this July 2004 photo. The United Nations World Food Program plans to air drop 1,400 tons of food to several sites during August."

Though there is no way short of arresting and detaining every militant and potential militant out there to guarantee an end, the UN could be doing more than sitting around with their reports and speaking of peace talks between the government and the rebels. Sending in UN Peacekeeping troops may be an obvious answer, but that may do no more than anger the rebels even more. Sanctions could work, and the UN would probably impose them if it weren't for the greed of certain countries, including, sorry to say, China. Whether the Sudanese government had any hand in this wouldn't matter, because either way, they would be compelled to stop it. If the bureaucrats and diplomats could consider the human rights violations over the economics of Sudan, then perhaps an end could come sooner.

"A boy waits to see a doctor Wednesday, August 4, in a camp 50 miles from Aljinena, the capital of the western Darfur region of Sudan. Government-equipped Arab militias, known as Janjaweed, sent to fight rebel groups have killed 30,000 black Sudanese, the United Nations says, and displaced about 1.2 million people. The U.N. calls this the worst humanitarian crisis in the world."

Here's a new and original thought: why not say the Sudanese have weapons of mass destructions, shelter Al Qaeda, use that as a pretense to invade, overthrow the government and dismantle the army, keep their oil in the back of our minds, cause people who had nothing against us to hate us, cause people to suffer even more, and make things worse? Oh wait... we already did that. With Iraq.