News – From the article: "A lone gunman has been arrested after hijacking a Sudanese passenger jet and diverting it to N'Djamena, the capital of neighbouring Chad. The Air West Boeing 737 was flying 103 people from Sudan's capital, Khartoum, to El Fasher in the Darfur region. The hijacker was carrying a machine gun, and a Chadian government minister said he was seeking asylum in the UK."
"Sudan accuses Chad of backing rebel forces in the Darfur region, while Chad says Sudan aids Chadian rebel groups."
Oh, it gets better than that. The US has been gunning for Sudan for roughly 20 years. They have Islam and oil, and it is a thing we do...
Anyway, Ahmat Soubiane, Chad's ambassador to the US at the time, went public in 2004 stating that not only was Idriss Deby, president cum dictator of Chad, smuggling arms to the Darfur rebels, he was getting those arms from the US under the Pan-Sahel Initiative.
http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/2004/2004-July/014366.
And now we are calling for a "peacekeeping force," i.e, a multinational military force, to invade Sudan, TO INTERVENE IN THE CONFLICT WE FACILITATED!
Creepy, huh?
from what i understand, the darfur rebels are mainly Christians resisting the shariah government of sudans effort to enforce shariah law and convert them to islam. very horrible things have happened to them including enslavement, forced sexual slavery of women, torture and genocide. 70 to 80 thousand of them are still held in slavery to muslim masters.
bush has resisted invading them because they are allies providing information on terrorists for the war on terror.
if bush was really interested in what was right or wrong, he would intervene.
Most Darfur residents are Muslim according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darfur#Darfur_Conflic
This may or may not help to explain why so many nations are unwilling to do very much to halt the conflict. I also agree with you, Jasmine5000, any POTUS interested in doing right by humanity would try harder than GWB to end the infighting.
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i feel bad for the guy. he was trying to escape persecution in sudan. anyone of you ever hear of that government in sudan or what their like. i can understand the desperation to escape that. im sure if any of us was put in that position we wold do anything we can to get out of there. including forcing someone to take me out if i had to.