War looms in eastern Sudan
Crossposted from European Tribune.
In strangely underreported developments, another part of Africa’s largest country may soon be thrown into war.
Besides killing some 2,4 million, the deadly conflicts of south Sudan and western Sudan (Darfur) have spawned more than one fifth of the world’s nearly 24 million internally displaced people, a fresh study finds. The Darfur situation, without question a slo-mo genocide, threatens to become “a perfect storm of human destruction.” There are signs now that this may repeat itself in the east, which has many of the ingredients of previous conflicts. These include claims of political marginalization and economic neglect; competition for water and land; and religious and ethnic differences exacerbated by racism.
If this seems complicated, it is. But as with both Darfur and the 21-year war in south Sudan, one can safely put the brunt of the blame on the vicious Islamistic military junta in Khartoum, which has long since proven its credentials as perhaps the most evil regime on earth (and I don’t use such terms lightly). If ever UN sanctions were called for, they are so here. But obviously, nothing will happen with the oil-gobbling China and the arms-peddling Russia as veto powers and the other permanent members on the fence. And so the world turns.
