UN: Darfur became much worse "while we were watching Lebanon and Israel" - 29-Aug-06 - Generational Dynamics

Amnesty International reports that Sudan's new military buildup is precursor to a "catastrophe"

"Eyewitnesses in al-Fasher in North Darfur are telling us that Sudanese government military flights are flying in troops and arms on a daily basis," said Kate Gilmore, Amnesty International's Executive Deputy Secretary General, quoted in Amnesty International press release. "Displaced people in Darfur are absolutely terrified that the same soldiers that expelled them from their homes and villages may now be sent supposedly to protect them."

For three years, America has been leading the effort to convince the international community to deploy troops to stop the massive genocide. America has described the war as 'genocide.' The UN has cynically refused to do so, because doing so would obligate the UN to try to stop it.

In a BBC interview on Monday, UN Emergency Relief Coordinator Jan Egeland described the situation even more harshly. He was asked what has changed recently.

"What changed is that while we were all watching Lebanon and Israel, it became much worse in Darfur. ... We fear a massive increase in the fighting and the threat now of a major [Sudanese] government offensive that will bring all out war. And then we'll have to withdraw [humanitarian] operations, and 300 million people will not have their lifeline at the Kalma refugee camp."

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He said that another group had taken a survey at the Kalma refugee camp, and found that "several times more women are being raped, abused beated, as they go out courageously to collect firewoood, or to get food, or to get any necessities into their camp" as had been happening previously.

Readers of this web site should make an effort to understand what's going on in Darfur. From the point of view of Generational Dynamics, this is the only "generational crisis war" going on in the world right now, and this is the kind of war that the entire world is headed for.

Crisis wars are different from other kinds of war. Americans focus on the wars in Iraq, in Afghanistan, and lately, the war in Lebanon. These are non-crisis wars. They're fought according to the rules of "international law." I've never really understood how you can have laws that describe how you have a war. It's like saying that I'm allowed to kill my next-door neighbor, provided that I'm genteel about it, and don't make too much of a mess. It's always been weird to me.

But every nation has crisis wars. These are the worst kinds of wars, the genocidal wars. America has had crisis wars. In World War II the allies killed millions of civilians in Dresden and Tokyo with massive firebombs that leveled these cities almost instantly. The entire cities were set on fire, and people who weren't burned were suffocated, because the fires used up all the oxygen. And I'm not blaming the allies for this; every nation does it, and our enemies had tried to do worse to us.

Every crisis war ends with some kind of explosive event. In World War II, this event was literally explosive, as we use nuclear weapons on Japanese cities.

By the end of WW II, the American population's anger and even desire for revenge was palpable, especially because of news reports of Japanese' brutal treatment of American prisoners, including torture and beatings. Those emotions were captured and conveyed perfectly by President Harry Truman, in his famous speech on August 9, 1945, shortly after destroying the city of Hiroshima with an atomic bomb: "Having found the bomb we have used it. We have used it against those who attacked us without warning at Pearl Harbor, against those who have starved and beaten American prisoners of war, against those who have abandoned all pretense of obeying international laws of warfare. We have used it in order to shorten the agony of war, in order to save the lives of thousands and thousands of young Americans. We shall continue to use it until we completely destroy Japan's power to make war. Only a Japanese surrender will stop us."

Americans (and most of the world) have forgotten what crisis wars are like. To people today, this is a completely foreign concept. People today, at least Americans today, think of war as a kind of video game, where bombers drop pinpoint bombs on targets, and nobody gets hurt except for perhaps a little "collateral damage."

But the Darfur war is not a video game war. Nor were the wars in the Balkans and Rwanda in the 1990s, nor the Iran/Iraq and Syria/Lebanon wars of the 1980s, nor the Cambodia "killing fields" of the 1970s. These were crisis wars, but Americans have no understanding of them.

If Amnesty International and Jan Egeland are correct, then Sudan is planning a major new offensive in Darfur.

What kind of offensive will this be? Will this be the "explosive" event that will finally end the Darfur war? From the point of view of Generational Dynamics, it will be intellectually fascinating to watch; from the point of view of the people of Darfur, it will be a horror beyond belief. (29-Aug-06) Permanent Link
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