The Problem of Darfur

[jaguar]

Well it's more complex than that. It appears a deal with struck between them and the government - the raids have been heavily backed by the airforce doing bombing runs before the riders arrived to get on with the whole rape and pillage side of things. It's fundamentally muslim vs christian but there are race issues as well just to make it spicy.

[DanaC]

*shakes head* what a mess

[tw]

Originally Posted by DanaC

*shakes head* what a mess

I suspect you don't know how big the mess really is. Next door in Northern Uganda is another 'massacre' ongoing on a smaller scale. Congo's eastern half had long been a territory of civil war and rebels hiding out to attach other countries - Rwanda. Burundi lately has been stable. Ethiopia has always been chaotic even after Eriteria broke away, became friendly, and then went to war again. Over at the other end of equitorial nations is Nigeria, Ivory Coast, Sierra Leone, and Liberia - all having been fully involved in war. Nigeria with its 116 million people has at least become peaceful enough as to send 'peacekeeper' troops to those other counties.

Sudan's Dafur is but a silly little example of what has been ongoing throughout most all of Africa. Most common problem - all armies kidnap the kids because they are easiest to brainwash. A legacy of kids without education and educated best to be murders.

And yet that is not the biggest problem in Africa. Clean water is still a larger problem.

[DanaC]

Actually I was aware of the bigger mess . The trouble in Darfur is the scale that the displacements are happening on. Over a million have fled so far. The refugee situation in Chad is critical.