Rwanda in Slow Motion

The rollercoaster that is my opinion of Johann Hari hits another peak as he posts a sobering eulogy for the people of Darfur, and for the hollow cries of "Never Again!" that accompanied their slaughter.

At last, some good news from Darfur: the holocaust in western Sudan is nearly over. There’s only one problem - it’s drawing to an end only because there are no black people left to cleanse or kill. The National Islamic Front government has culled over 400,000 "Zurga" - a word which translates best as "niggers" - and driven two million more from their homes in its quest to make western Sudan "Zurga-free". Their racist Janjaweed militias would love to carry on rampaging and raping, but the black villages have all been burned down and the women have all been raped with "Arab seed" to "destroy their race from within."

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It was clear very early on that this was a rerun of Rwanda. Romeo Dallaire was the head of the UN peacekeeping force in Rwanda who tried desperately - and in vain - to persuade the world to intervene, only to watch helplessly while hundreds of thousands of people were systematically murdered. Last year, he called Darfur "Rwanda in slow motion."

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