Saturday, July 23, 2005
Getting Real With Africa
Milblogger Hurl used the opportunity of the SecState's visit to Sudan to teach a great history lesson:
Conflict in Sudan has been going on for 50 years, why is it just now getting attention? In 1955, the Islamic Arabs of the North began waging a war against the mostly Christian (and a few animist) indigenous black tribes of the South until a ceasefire in 1972. They picked it up again in 1983, and since that time, it is estimated that 2 million have been killed and millions more displaced and taken as slaves. That's right I said SLAVES. Black Africans are still languishing in slavery, but you won't hear a peep from almost any black members of congress or many prominent blacks like Jesse, uncle Al, Farrakhan, etc.I said a while ago that I thought the problems in Sudan were pretty intractable. Now you know why. Maybe we need to arm the black Christians? Just a thought.
In fact, as many BLACK AFRICAN SLAVES have been taken from Sudan alone in the past 25 years as in the ENTIRETY of the transatlantic slave trade that ended up in North America - about 1 million. Think about that.
Arab Muslims have been killing non-Arab Muslims in Darfur for 2 years, totaling between 50,000 - 300,000....and everybody is making a big deal out of it. But Arab Muslims (Sudanese government) have killed 2 million non-Arab (black) Christians and enslaved well over 1 million in the past 25 years....but nobody cares? Hmmmm.....
