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THURSDAY 22 JULY 2004
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The bad guy conundrum
By Jim Davis, Editor-Publisher, The Siatonite
HELLO? GEORGE? MR. PRESIDENT? Are you
there? For the laek of a reason backed by
facts, we've arrived at the idea that (A)We ran
Saddam out of power in Iraq because he was a
bad guy, and (B)The world—Middle Eastern
and otherwise—is better off with him gone.
Now comes the conundrum!
It is in Sudan, an east-central African
country reportedly ruled by a minority Arab
government bent on eliminating all the non-
Arab black Africans who populate most of the
Country's western region.
For a variety of reasons, those subsistence
farmers are in the way of those in power and
their friends. Armed gangs of traditionally
nomadic Arabs are doing the dirty work, but
by all accounts , they are doing it with the sup-
port of the national government—both di-
rectly and indirectly.
The result is the systematic murder of
those who don't flee. By one account, at least
10,000 have been killed in the campaign al-
ready.
The result is the systematic rape ofwomen
and young girls, which in a Muslim society
turns them into unfit outcasts.
The result is the eruelest weapon of
all—eviction into the hell of the desert or
overcrowded, filth-ridden, under-supplied
refugee camps. According to relief workers,
starvation and disease will take the lives of
hundreds of thousands if something isn't done
almost immediately.
The weapons, too, are government pro-
grams intended to keep information from
filtering out to the world and to keep relief
help in any quantity from filtering in to the
survivors.
The situation is frequently compared
to the early stages of the 1994 genocide in
Rwanda. Close on the heels of this country's
disaster in Somalia, warnings of impending
horror in that tiny African country went un-
heeded and a half million died directly or in-
directly at the hands of government-backed
extremist militias.
The news reports on the situation in Sudan
abounded—briefly—in late June. Secretary
of State Colin Powell and UN Secretary Gen-
eral Kofi Annan made separate high-profile
visits.
They denounced the situation. They
threatened the Sudanese government. The
government promised to stop the violence
and stop getting in the way of relief efforts.
And no one much believed what the govern-
ment was saying.
Annan is apparently trying to generate
some international response to the crisis.
The Bush administration was choosing its
words with lawyerly precision—that is, ap-
pearing concerned in that Powell did go to
Sudan, while avoiding terms like genocide
which might legally, if not morally, oblige this
country to do something.
It's the conundrum, guys!
If we went after Saddam because he was
bad, why not these guys?
If we went after Saddam because he was &
threat to the peaee and stability of his region,
why not these guys?
If we believe in saving the world from the
kind of mass horrors Saddam imposed, why
not do that in Sudan, too?
If we want to bring multi-cultural democ-
racy to the world, why not central Africa?
Evenifwe are simply bent on stopping ter-
rorism wherever it surfaces, why not Sudan?
If we are the moral light of the world, the
light doesn't allow for opting out.
Where is the call for international action
from our steadfast, right-is-right and wrong-
is-wrong, tough-talking president...or lacking
international action, where is the bravado to
go it alone?
Oh, the conundrum!
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