How Could We Be So Wrong!
We're totally out to lunch. No problem in Darfur at all. Why the West has to go about making trouble like this for a nice country like Sudan is beyond me. After all, they're just going about their business doing what countries do, governing their population, making every effort to ensure that everyone gets along nicely. And here we are, giving them grief. It's just too much to bear. So patently unfair. What? you say?Well, listen, I have it on the very best authority. Straight from the horse's mouth, as it were. Could even be one of those horses the Janjaweed ride for all I know. Just kidding, of course, not to take offense, please. The inside dope is available for any and all to read. And, as we all know, to read is to believe. Could it be otherwise? Yep, right there in my daily newspaper.
Faiza Taha, Ambassador of Sudan (hoo-boy! we're dealing with the big ones here) wags his finger at us unbelievers. He tells us that the Darfur region "is suffering from confusing reports by various international agencies that raise more controversy than enlightenment about the real situation." Yes, that's right. About time someone had the good sense to put the record straight.
Hey, if the straight goods is coming from the Ambassador of Sudan, sit up straight, fella, and listen up.
The media, he confides, keeps inflating the number of Darfur "casualties". Casualties, one guesses is diplomatic double-speak for government-sponsored murder. So, check: we're wrong on that account.
Ah - the media, especially in the West "intentionally (or unintentionally, isn't he generous?) spread these fallacies, which become a constant cliche when Darfur is mentioned. Right-o!
Mea culpa! Aren't we just awful. Always on the lookout for good juicy stories to outrage the reading public. Nothing gets people so riled up as reports of mass murder, rape, homelessness, and all government sponsored, a threat brought to reality through a country's proxy militia of jihad-adoring Islamists. Oops, scrub that, there I go again.
Rape statistics in Darfur, the eminent Faiza Taha goes on to explain are very minimal compared with those of some western countries that claim to be protectors of human rights. And he quotes statistics from gleanings from the U.S. Justice Department. Guess he kind of forgot, that ingenious, er, ingenuous man, that in Sudan rape appears to be a government-approved game. In civilized countries it is considered a crime, one that is actually prosecuted, and malefactors brought to trial and justice.
He's right on the money, though, stating that rape is a gender issue, an ethical problem rather than a political or racial problem. Um, yes, that's a fairly accurate assessment on the face of it, generally speaking. Except that, on incontrovertible evidence of both victims of rape and human-rights aid workers rape is a government-sponsored political and racial tool of extreme harrassment. In Sudan.
Ah, now we're getting down to business; to quote the Ambassador of Sudan: "What Darfur really needs now is to encourage the internal peace process". Something, obviously that cannot be achieved through the intervention of the United Nations or concerned African nations, but only through the diabolical machinations of the Sudanese government. Damn! there I go again. Guess bad habits are hard to beat.
"...peace inDarfur will be made by the Darfurians and by all the Sudanese people first and then by the help of the international community." says he.
So, get set to stand by, world, and watch as Sudan's government continues its policy of justified genocide.
posted by Pieface @ Tuesday, December 19, 2006
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