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US Claims Genocide in Sudan The US government yesterday officially accused a Sudanese paramilitary group and its proxies of committing genocide in a 20-month-long brutal civil war against the North African country's military. The declaration marks the most decisive stance the US has taken in the war between the forces of two formerly allied generals—Rapid Support Forces leader Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo and Sudanese army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan. The conflict (see background) has killed an estimated 150,000 people and displaced more than 11 million people—about one-fifth of the country’s population. The US has declared genocide only six other times since the end of the Cold War in 1989. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said yesterday the RSF—a group with roots in the infamous Janjaweed militias—committed systematic executions of men and boys and sexual violence against women and girls based on ethnicity. In response, the US Treasury Department has imposed sanctions on Dagalo and seven United Arab Emirates companies supporting the militia. This message has been edited. Last edited by: downtownv, _________________________ | ||
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Africa's version of the south side of Chicago? _____________________ Be careful what you tolerate. You are teaching people how to treat you. | |||
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Business as usual in Africa. I’ll take brutal African dictator of the week for $100 Alex. Lots of military associates of mine have done deployments to Africa, one close friend multiple times. He will flat out state the entire continent with possibly a couple countries excepted is a lost cause | |||
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An uncle was a missionary in Africa 50 years ago and told me the same thing. Don't know why anyone would bother with the continent. -------------------------- Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats. -- H L Mencken I always prefer reality when I can figure out what it is. -- JALLEN 10/18/18 | |||
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Africa? Gimme a break. Two scenarios - Number 1. 73 years ago I started school here in England, and every kid in the class brought a sixpenny piece to put in the jar for poor kids in Africa who - 1. had to walk ten miles each way with a bucket of water, 2. had to crap in a hole in the ground, 3. had to live falling-down mud huts and 3. had numerous loathsome health problems, like cleft palates, blindness, dengue, lassa fever, blight of the tripes et al. Fast forward to 2025, and our great grandkids are taking a nice shiny pound coin every week to put in that same freakin' jar for exactly the same reasons, but for the great-great-grandkids of the first bunch. Number 2. A few years back I was involved in an organisation that had an overlook on what was going on in the Horn of Africa - Somalia, Mogadishu, Mali - that kind of place. The WHO and UNICEF had gotten together, and collected a hundred brand-new Mercedes-Benz trucks, and loaded them with food - rice and flour and cooking oil - that kind of thing. we saw them being offloaded in Mogadishu, and standing on the quayside, all nice and shiny and white and loaded with comestibles. The next day there were five of six still there, burned out wrecks. The rest had gone - somewhere. In the local markets all the donated food was on sale in the original bags to those who could afford to buy it - that's around a thousand short tons of the stuff. I've never given a bean to Africa since. | |||
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Although comical, it is not at all inaccurate. | |||
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3 words - vast natural resources. Diamonds, precious metals, oil, gas, etc. Ego is the anesthesia that deadens the pain of stupidity DISCLAIMER: These are the author's own personal views and do not represent the views of the author's employer. | |||
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China is getting their asses kicked there now. ____________________________ Eeewwww, don't touch it! Here, poke at it with this stick. | |||
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45k dead Hamas members is a good start. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Yidn, shreibt un fershreibt" "The Nazis entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to bomb everyone else, and nobody was going to bomb them. At Rotterdam, London, Warsaw and half a hundred other places, they put their rather naive theory into operation. They sowed the wind, and now they are going to reap the whirlwind." -Bomber Harris | |||
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Neither example follows the teach a man to fish philosophy and therefore were doomed to fail. I was in Rwanda in '05 with my church. On the first night in country, the head of the NGO we were collaborating with started out his talk with holding his hand out with an open palm. He proclaimed that asking for handouts was Africa's biggest problem. I saw with my own eyes a few programs that actually work, and none of them involved handouts. Ego is the anesthesia that deadens the pain of stupidity DISCLAIMER: These are the author's own personal views and do not represent the views of the author's employer. | |||
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He was one of the best! _________________________ | |||
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The Africans are killing each other? Imagine that!  End of Earth: 2 Miles Upper Peninsula: 4 Miles | |||
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How many are in a brazillion? | |||
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In 1977, I spent two weeks in Khartoum working for Page Communications. We put an IMTS system in the Presidents Palace. The company had also put in a TV station and Sector HF links. The problem was the buzzards setting on the antenna elements and bending them down due to the weight of the bird. They were fighting rebels on the eastern border. It was like traveling back a 1000 years in time. They were plowing the fields with oxen and bathing in muddy ponds. 41 | |||
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Slight thread drift. I heard the same sort of reasoning excuse in Catholic grade school, but ours was for the “missionaries in China”. This was in the late 1950s and early 1960s. No one asked where or how this money would get to the “missionaries in COMMUNIST China”, as you just didn’t challenge Sister Mary Holy Water while she held her 12-inch wooden ruler above your writing hand. If it wasn’t for Europeans bringing civilization to Africans, they would still be killing each other over tribal grievances. Oh wait, they still are, even after the Europeans left in the 1960s. The more things change, the more they remain the same. --------------------- DJT-45/47 MAGA !!!!! "Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on, or by imbeciles who really mean it." — Mark Twain “Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.” — H. L. Mencken | |||
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TIA, Danny. “I'm fat because everytime I do your girlfriend, she gives me a cookie”. | |||
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Give Jean Hatzfeld's "Machete Season" a read. It's about the Rwandan Genocide and is a real eye opener to what happens boots on the ground in these type of things. Train how you intend to Fight Remember - Training is not sparring. Sparring is not fighting. Fighting is not combat. | |||
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