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.
I mean, they’re ignoring the one in Palestine and the one in China, and even taking sides against Ukraine, so how is this any different?
Palestine seems like 60% of what I hear about in national news and on Lemmy. Ukraine, though, no so much. People can’t use it to talk shit about Biden, after all.
The Kremlin is pumping social media full of anti-Biden propaganda, using Israel’s genocide as a wedge to split the Democratic vote so they can get Trump elected again.
Yes, 100% agree. No coincidence Netanyahu is a far right fascist and would prefer Trump himself.
Yes, people act like they’re going to piss off Israel’s government by not voting for Biden. Bibi says thank you.
Why won’t anyone think of the real victims, American liberals!
that snark is not going to sound so great when abortion is banned and Israel annexes Palestine with trump’s blessing. And the best part: you won’t even be able to protest anything!!
People can’t use it to talk shit about Biden, after all.
No. The Kremlin and Trumpers are using it to single out Biden so people will forget them and trade Bad for Much Worse.
ignoring the one in Palestine
???
It’s impossible to go on any social media without hearing about it.
But no one is stopping it, so they’re ignoring it
The United Nations has been reporting the famine and war crimes in Sudan for decades.
I hate to say it but it’s been going on for too long, most people don’t care anymore. New conflicts have taken the spotlight.
Doesn’t really explain it, I mean the underlying Palestine/Israel thing has been going on for decades too.
The current Sudanese Civil War has only been going on for 6 months longer than the current Israel vs Gaza hostilities.
Thats an easy one, America isn’t openly funding the side committing genocide and threatening to liberate anyone who doesn’t like what they do back into the stone age, in Sudan.
Its really not hard to see, if you’re prepared to see it.
The Israel/Palestine thing has been going on for thousands of years, lol. Literally.
Israel didnt exist for about 1900 out of the last 2000 years…
This is literally the first time I’m hearing about it
In the US at least, our policy today doesn’t affect this genocide. Outside of Sudan, the important parties are Egypt, the UAE, and factions in Libya. Whereas in Palestine US missiles and funding to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars are directly involved, US policy today does not affect Sudan materially.
Still though, the UN and other international organs are documenting and attempting to aid. It’s just not disputed by far right fucks in our government.
The honest answer is that I can only care about so many ongoing genocides at once before I go numb towards it. And I am more invested in the one happening two countries over. And absurdly cynical one committed by a people who had plenty of genocides happen against them over the course of history.
How many concurrent genocides do we have going on right now in the world? Like four? Five? I’m not sure.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ongoing_armed_conflicts plus whatever is happening in Xinjiang.
Get in line behind Palestine and the Uyghurs so we can ignore you too!
Myanmar?
Don’t forget Yemen. I know, it’s a measly 350 000 dead so far, which apparently rate much less than Israel-Palestine conflict losses.
You mean Burma? Cause I dig their take on Buddhism.
The genocidal take?
We can’t even handle the genocides we have now. Someone wants another? Ffs.
Could it be our weakness to act that is encouraging more genocides?
Yeah probably. But what do we do? “Vote?” “Protest?” That’s just thoughts and prayers. We have very little control over our governments in the short term and no control of—or right to control—another country. What is there?
Agitate, educate, organize. Vote, protest, unionize, build political coalitions, support local progressive politicians, etc. We need to do everything, and anything helps. We, the people, have all the power. To use it, we need to act collectively.
That sounds great for making your own country better. But how do we influence 100 or more countries in the next 30 days to condemn Israel, and any other country engaging in genocide?
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Hmm yes, like the Arab Spring or Apartheid or the Rwandan genocide, definitely unknown.
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There’s a major difference between something being unknown, and people being ill-informed.
Pulls out Peter Griffin skin tone threat chart
tbf they didn’t care about the bosnian genocide either
They should update that meme with a list of money sources
I mean, who is “they” in this case? NATO took an offensive action, potentially their only one in history, to disarm the Serbs and stop the genocidal side. It certainly wasn’t ignored. Kosovo exists because of NATO involvement, and they’ve named streets and erected statues to that end even.
I think my workmate was in Bosnia as a peacekeeper. I may have the wrong Bosnian conflict, though.
After most of the killing/dying was over the UN did send peace keepers, but even then they stayed away from areas were ethnic cleansing was still going on.
Same issue as now, a democrat was involved so it was ok to ignore.
Could you elaborate? This was the only conflict I think where NATO took action outside of Article 5. The Democrat president in question here supported attacking the people committing genocide, so I’m not sure what your point is.
Because ignoring genocides is what the world does.
shouldn’t that be “why is the world ignoring a looming genocide in sudan again?”
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Sorry, Ill go fix it now that you’ve brought it to my attention.
No Jira ticket, no fixy.
Sudan isn’t popular because it’s difficult to tie either side of the conflict to a specific political party. No one gets too many political points for speaking for/against.
There is oil.
Yeah, but gas prices are currently considered reasonable and tying those to politics is also a bit unfavorable now since everyone blamed the president when they were extra high but then it actually went back down and then no one knew what to do.
