FascIslamic Sudan Wreaks Genocide in Northwest
by Ken Bell

Just a decade ago, more than 800,000 Rwandans died in the span of two months, an act of genocide that shocked the conscience of the world, but could not lead it to act.

It’s happening again.

The FascIslamic slave state of Sudan prosecutes its proxy war against the black Muslim tribes of the northwestern Darfur region unabated. Some 200,000 to 300,000 have already perished, more than 70,000 human beings have been butchered, tens of thousands raped, maimed, orphaned or enslaved. Villages across the territory have been burned, and more than a million refugees have flooded into camps along the western border and spilled over into impoverished Chad.

Millions have died in the decades-long civil war of aggression waged by the Arab slavers of the north against the black regions of the south and west. But in the next few months alone, another million people will almost surely perish, unless we act.

Neither the European Union nor the United Nations has the will, or perhaps even the capacity to act. The African Union, despite facing the first real crisis of its brief existence, has neither the ability to act alone, nor the necessary consensus. These facts are unsurprising, After all, the Europeans found it almost impossible to act a decade ago when white Muslims were being slaughtered on their own continent. And no one seemed to care enough about Rwanda to do anything.

America should be different. With more wisdom and courage than their European counterparts, at the end of July both houses of the US Congress declared unanimously that the janjaweed militia (recruited, armed, equipped, paid and directed by the government of Sudan) were carrying out a policy of genocide in Sudan’s northwestern Darfur region. On the 9th of September, Secretary of State Colin L. Powell averred for the first time that genocide has taken place in Sudan, and that the government in Khartoum was responsible.

The administration, almost from its inception, has done far more than any of its predecessors to bring an end to the 21-year-long Sudanese civil war. And the Secretary’s statement came at the same time as a US initiative to spark negotiations at the UN Security Council on a resolution threatening new sanctions against Sudan if it fails to disarm the janjaweed.

Secretary Powell’s declaration is of great significance, because, as a signatory to the 1948 Genocide Convention, the United States is committed by law to preventing and punishing genocide.

Moreover, the most important point about Sudanese genocide that is most often omitted from discussion is that events in Sudan are intimately linked with the global War On Terror we are fighting against the forces of FascIslam. Sudan has been playing a double game, like Syria, cooperating only under great duress and when absolutely necessary to avoid grave consequences.

Their crimes deserve grave consequences.

Direct and substantial US military and logistical support to a coalition of the willing African Union members numbering not less than 5,000 troops should be marshaled and dispatched as soon as practically possible: immediately. The objectives of this force should be to disarm the janjaweed (or, if necessary, to destroy them), to create peace and order in the region, and to open access for international relief efforts.

To do any less would make us complicit in mass murder.

The United States has both the capacity and the moral authority—indeed, the moral imperative—to act. We must.

–From the September 2004 Austin Review