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Uhu · 10/09/2004 11:28

I think what is happening in the Darfur region of Sudan is deplorable but even more deplorable is the inaction of the so called policemen of the world, i.e USA and Europe. Sudan is not a major oil supplier like Iraq and Kuwait so Dubya will not be in a hurry to send troops there to ensure liberty and freedom like in the good old US of A. Britain continues with its snail pace diplomatic posturings because no doubt our "leaders" are waiting to see what the Americans will do and as for the rest of Europe?

Have lessons been learnt from Rwanda? Nope! If the people had blond hair and blue eyes would there be more action? You bet! Have the Muslim Council who are always quick to portray followers of Islam as the poor victims in any conflict condemned the actions of their fellow Islamic brothers? Of course not! What is the toothless African Union doing to help one of its neighbours destroyed by years of war and corruption? You tell me because many of African governments themselves are teeming with self-serving, corrupt individuals.

As always, it is the poor innocent people who have nothing that suffer. I dispair . At least Colin Powell has now used the G word so maybe, just maybe,something positive will be done to help the innocent people in this tragedy.

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goodkate · 10/09/2004 11:40

Uhu have you ever read any of Paul Theroux's travel books on Africa? Fantastic, disturbing, fascinating and sad.

We colonised these countries, showed them how to live our way (not appropriate in my opinion) and them left them to themselves only to be led by corrupt self serving bs. And instead of bows and arrows and machetes, they have guns and televisions to fight their outdated wars with.

The perception from the west is that the leaders are war mongering animals (even though they themselves are), but men have always been that way, the world over. Intervention is not ours as it will only make matters worse. We have to let them get on with it.

If we continue to interfere with other countries problems, terroism will only increase because instead of exacting their revenge on each other it will be directed at us, as the fanatics in the middle east are already doing, basically because of our meddling in Isreal over the past century.

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aloha · 10/09/2004 11:57

Hmmm....I wonder if you would be quite so keen on non-intervention if it was your children that were being killed? I strongly suspect not.

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Uhu · 10/09/2004 12:00

goodkate, thanks for the recommendation and I will definitely read it. Agree with everything you say. You just have to look at Europe's history to see what are bunch of warmongerers the leaders were and still are. The tragedy of Africa as a whole is the legacy of the Europeans rape and abuse of that continent and to this day, many of those in power are nothing but stooges to Western interest.

However,I feel we must sometimes interfere because without economic reform and redistribution of power, the haves not will remain in abject poverty. How we change that is beyond me and I know that it is not easy but we cannot standby and watch masses of people be slaughtered. If we do, what is point of Rememberance Sunday? We should learn from history and never stand by and allow what happened to the Jews in WW2 to happen again.

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goodkate · 10/09/2004 13:10

God only knows how we are to stop it but intervention is not working.

Famines, wars, death, children dying of mans greed and power has been happening for thousands of years but that doesn't mean it should can continue.

I think the west has a lot to answer for for the current situation. Lots of countries became "civilised/democratised" naturally with no or little intervention from the outside world, despite having a barbaric past.

We, stupidly, have tried to democratise them with understandably little success. They rejected the enforced living and seem to have reverted to blood thirsty ways of resolving conflict. It will stop one day, but in its own time ans in its own way. Intervention now will only create more death and blood shed twenty/thirty years down the line.

Personally, I think the African Union should be encouraged to be tougher. Let the Africans be proud of resolving their own problems.

No doubt once Africa is at peace, we will be in the middle of a full scale bloody war!

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