The war has sent Sudan hurtling into the largest humanitarian disaster in the world, triggering genocide in the west of the country, and starvation there and in other areas.
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What occurred in Khartoum is the biggest looting of an African city, if not any capital city, in modern history.
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The international community has all but abandoned Sudan to its fate,
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The RSF militia has now decamped to a stronghold in the west of the country, where it controls almost every major city. The scale of the violence there against racial groups and tribes not aligned with the RSF has amounted to the sort of ethnic cleansing and mass murder that echoes the genocide of the 00s,
What’s happening in Gazxa isn’t the worst anyone’s ever seen. It’s not the worst this century, it’s not even the worst happening currently.
But it’s Joos and Arabs rather than Arabs and Africans so that’s different, see?
I’m surprised that there is anyone left alive in the Sudan with all these genocides and Mahdists and stuff down the years.
By definition it’s not possible to paint a picture of an unimaginable horror.
The international community has all but abandoned Sudan to its fate, with hundreds of millions of dollars in pledged aid that never materialised and abysmal political engagement.
Sorry, I gave at the office.
And what losses they are, not just for its inhabitants, not just for Sudan, but for a world that has lost a beautiful, historic, storied city.
London? Paris? Berlin? Stockholm?
“But it’s Joos and Arabs rather than Arabs and Africans so that’s different, see”? .
But it’s Joos and moslems, rather than moslems and African everyone else not moslem (or of course, the ‘wrong type of moslem’), so that’s different, see?
TFTFY.
Note the common denominator……….
These people in the Horn of Africa do seem to spend an inordinate amount of time and energy beating the shit out of each other and starving in consequence.
1. Who funds all this?
2. To what end?
I see there was a case for the Anglo-Egyptian Condominium after all.
But too expensive, Empire. “Leave the fuzzy-wuzzies to it” TPTB presumably decided. No doubt the Guardian uncritically cheered such a policy. After all, it cheers all strides we make in that direction here, dunnit?
When the Dark Ages got unpleasantly rough a chunk of the British population in the south west cleared off to vacant land in France and became Bretons. The clue is in the name. Where are we all going to clear off to?
Yet in ten years’ time, the disappearance of blacks from Sudan will be blamed on historic white settler colonialism.
“Who fund this ?”
In ye olde dates it was all part of the Cold War. The CIA ( or someone ) paid for an insurgency and the Soviet funded government squashed it ( often with Cuban troops ). Hence the Ethiopian famines of the 1970s and 80s. And of course vice versa somewhere else.
Then they started fighting each other with leftover Soviet ( or French ) weapons.
Not sure who to blame now. China ? Iran ?
Lord bless you, Fuzzy Wuzzy, at your home in the Sudan.
Yore a poor benighted heathen but a first-class fighting man.
It’s a way of life out there. We need to have no more to do with it. Queen Victoria gave at the office.
Well, we handed Sudan back in 1955. It was run by 150 officials and was the most efficient of colonial governments.
There wasn’t even much of a military presence there. Most of that sort of thing was outsourced to the Egyptians.
40 years since I studied the SPS, I shall have to look it up again.
What do you do about people who want all the benefits of the modern era (low child mortality, not starving, not dying of horrid diseases, probably not dying in natural disasters, etc. etc.) but refuse to become modern themselves? You can’t just ignore them any longer. They have TikTok; they can see what we have, want it, and board long vehicles and rubber boats to come and get it.
Is this what neutron bombs are for?
Or do you just persuade them that life will be better if the white man takes up the burden again, sends 150 officials, and everyone calms down and does what the white man tells them?
Also relevant, here’s another typical begging article from a Yooman Rights activist bemoaning the state of Burma and essentially concluding that the problem is one of bad People vs. Good People. Not thought whatsoever for the incentives and constraint structure that may be behind it all…
https://archive.ph/C99FF
And in other news, Marine Le Pen has been found guilty, and immediately banned from standing for presidential election. No surprise there.
Is this a blessing in disguise? Marion Maréchal’s moment?
So important we defeat Russia to save European democracy, guise
“Steve
London? Paris? Berlin? Stockholm?”
Everybody talk about pop music
Let’s do the milkshake.
@Norman
So was Ms Le Pen “found guilty” just like Trump was?
Yes, but of something we’d find surprising: being a politician and the (Napoleonic, natch) idea that political activity amounts to a misuse of public resources.
https://archive.ph/7z4Tk
The funny thing is the judiciary everywhere seems to think we don’t notice it’s taking the politicised piss, and forgets that in continental Europe there is a robust tradition of dealing with this.
Here’s another outed judicial political activist: one who thinks being lenient with wogs, niggers and trannies is right because the poor dears are traumatised and don’t know any better. This, surely, is the very definition of white supremacy, and the woman in question the very definition of supercilious, entitled Progressive cow:
https://archive.ph/wntRl
Mate, this isn’t my blog but it’s bad form to post words that might get our host into difficulties, given what’s going on with the Online Harms nonsense and general prosecutorial climate.
Yes, Steve, you have a point and I’ll restrain myself. I’ve got into the habit of actually saying what our betters don’t say out loud, and it’s a bad habit.
“given what’s going on with the Online Harms nonsense and general prosecutorial climate”
Whilst of course politeness and all that – as others here routinely point out, this blog is protected by the 1st. Presumably the only possible link at all to the rule of TTK might be a passport (not even residency), *if* a blog was owned by said passport? The details of which I presume (last time I looked) are hidden, as dot coms (etc) can hide an owner’s details. Someone can correct me if I’ve misunderstood.
We’ll just have to be careful and write s*p*r*i*i*us, e*t*t*ed P*o*r*s*i*e c*w.
Norman – Look around you, all you see are sympathetic eyes. x
PF – Ofcom is writing to websites that have nothing to do with the UK other than some British readers, threatening prosecution if they don’t abide by the Online Harms act. A bunch of UK web forums have already closed, and some sites are now blocking UK IPs.
jgh
My internal cross-word checker chimed in with *bien pensant*.
Steve
Really? Ofspaz is writing to web sites in Jakarta or wherever, accessed by UK IP addresses, threatening prosecution under bongo-banana law? Crumbs, it’s worse than I thought… 🙂 Maybe I should swap the IP over to somewhere like Turkey….
Well they closed down the dangerous ‘Hamster Forum’ website – my daughter’s 18 month old pet is bereft but gave him some Sunflower seeds to help him over the trauma. I don’t think there’s enough rope manufacturers left to meet demand to be honest. I would say probably half a million need to be hanged, not least the author of the article Tim quotes from.
VP,
In reading your comment and suddenly finding the urge to hit DDG, I’m reminded of yet another reason never to vote Conservative ever again – they were the worthless mongs that implemented that particular Act.
“half a million” – it could have its own thread…
Apols for multiple posts, but if the landlord felt compelled to suggest that the language needed to change/improve (from the prior accepted norm), presumably a web-monkey or bar-maid would be dispatched appropriately?