cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/10016237

Aid workers fear a new disaster as militia forces close in on a major Darfur city.

On a sunny April afternoon in 2006, thousands of people flocked to the National Mall in Washington, D.C., for a rally with celebrities, Olympic athletes, and rising political stars. Their cause: garner international support to halt a genocide in Sudan’s Darfur region.

“If we care, the world will care. If we act, then the world will follow,” Barack Obama, then the junior Illinois senator, told the crowd, speaking alongside future House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. That same week, then-Sen. Joe Biden introduced a bill in Congress calling on NATO to intervene to halt the genocide in Sudan. “We need to take action on both a military and diplomatic front to end the conflict,” he said.

  • cmbabul@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 months ago

    I think we all know this without digging in, math is pretty simple.

    The people in the positions of power, see ‘the wealthy’, don’t give a flying fuck about a genocide one way or the other unless they can profit. Then they are ‘secretly’ very pro it. Add in the fact that there’s about 3-5 going on worldwide right now, so even those of us who do give a fuck and want to stop it, even though our means are more limited, have our attention and energy split in as many directions.

    All that plus it being in Darfur which, in its top paragraph in Wikipedia is stated to have “been in a state humanitarian emergency and genocide since 2003” so crisis fatigue is another contributing factor. Which is additionally depressing.

    If you take all those factors and tie them up nicely with the history of how Africa and its people have always been treated. With cruelty or apathy towards that cruelty.

    It’s a tragedy