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Sam Dealey

Is Darfur Genocide?

August 20, 2008 05:06 PM ET | Sam Dealey | Permanent Link | Print

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are we so numb?

Have you ever seen the movie Hotel Rwanda? It is about the genocide performed by the Interhamwae in Rwanda in 1994. There is a scene in which a U.S. video reporter is asked by the hotel manager and main character how when people see all of this devastating footage they could NOT help. He says "yes, when people see this on there television, they will say 'oh that is so horrible', and go back to eating their dinner". This is how truly numb we are. REDICULOUS.

Darfur

This has been goin on so long obviously people don't care are we a;; in humane???

Read more about Morenogate

The background to the indictment of al-Bashir can be found in the Morenogate scandal at the ICC. For more information on Morenogate please go to www.article42-3.org.

What is genocide????

It is sad and truly terrible that the fate of Darfur hangs on one word; genocide. The arguments over whether or not the mass killings, displacements, and systematic devastation of a population can wear the badge of "genocide" is no more then an exercise in semantics.

The Darfuri people have their homes attacked, burned. There families killed. Then travel for days and sometimes weeks to "safety" only to face starvation and dehydration. With estimates of 400,000 dead and over 2.5 million internally displaced does it really matter what we call it. Are we so numb to the suffering of others that we will sit by and do nothing, allowing these atrocities to continue?

The reality is people are dying, women continue to be raped and brutalized, and children are witnessing unspeakable horrors and growing up in a community of instability and violence- all at the hands of the Sudanese government.

The explanation

Dear Mr. Dealey,

Iit was suppose to say the following.

You question the "logic — and, in truth, fairness — that the prosecutor should hold a press conference announcing his charges without actually revealing them".

The explanation is easy. The day before Moreno-Ocampo made the announcment concerning al Bashir, he had lost a case before the ILO administrative tribunal concerning the dismissal of a close aid to Moreno-Ocampo who had put forward a complaint against Moreno-Ocampo involving rape or other secual misconduct. So far Moreno-Ocampo has been succesful with his cover-up. Hardly anybody is writing about this connection.

Read more on http://klamberg.blogspot.com/2008/07/ngra-lnkar-om-morenogate.html

The explanation

Dear Mr. Dealey,

Your question the "logic — and, in truth, fairness — that the prosecutor should hold a press conference announcing his charges without actually revealing them".

The explanation is easy. The day before Moreno-Ocampo made the announcment concerning al Bashir, he had lost a case before the ILO administrative tribunal concerning the dismissal of a close aid to Moreno-Ocampo who had put forward a complaint against Moreno-Ocampo involving rape or other secual misconduct. So far Moreno-Ocampo has been succesful with his cover-up. Hardly anybody is writing about this connection.

Read more on http://klamberg.blogspot.com/2008/07/ngra-lnkar-om-morenogate.html

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Sam Dealey is a contributing editor at U.S. News & World Report and Reader's Digest. He has written for many publications, including Time, GQ, the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal.

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