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Darfur's Forgotten Ones

Alan from NJ Wrote: Nov 13, 2009 8:50 AM

With no political influence, or near 0, I have watched people go to rescue the Iraqis from Saddam Hussein and thought of oil. While innocent Sudanese were treated worse than animals by radical Islamists. Ethnic cleansing, at its worst.I may be offbase, but I thought of oil again, with Sudan. Is this the country where cooking oil (peanuts or soy) is farmed and sent to Europe, where the land should be used to grow food for the people who are starving. The rich leaders are doing that, in some N. African country.
I would add that boys and girls are kidnapped into slavery and must be purchased back from the moslem north by the same victims in Darfur. If these people were in Serbia, I believe it would be different.

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Darfur's Forgotten Ones

The genocide in Darfur is no longer a trendy, breathless global cause. But the women of Darfur haven't gotten the message.

On May 15, a woman near the Al Hamadiya Camp in Zalingei was collecting firewood. Three armed men in khaki uniforms raped her, stabbed her in the leg, inflicted genital injuries and left her bleeding. She spent 45 days in the hospital. In 2003, the same woman had been raped and shot while fleeing her village.