Daily Darfur: China Still Loves You

by Michelle . · 2009-06-02 04:33:00 UTC
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"Sure, you've ruled your country for 20 years with extreme violence --- 2 million people died in the South during civil war, about 300,000 have suffered the same fate in Darfur, and throughout the country 4.9 million people are displaced. Your callous disregard for the lives of your citizens and your penchant for creating not only internal but regional instability truly set you apart, among world leaders.

So, here's $3 million. Keep up the good work."

Or such appears to be the gist of a meeting between Omar al-Bashir and China's envoy to Sudan.

Quickies

Violence in South Sudan has surpassed that in Darfur, in recent months.

Boise, Idaho extends a warm welcome to Darfuri refugees.

Three gunman carjacked a UNAMID vehicle in North Darfur.

OCHA's weekly bulletin on Darfur describes ongoing efforts to cover the gaps left by the expulsions.

Eric Reeves offers his thoughts on the recent Physicians for Human Rights report on rape in Darfur and eastern Chad:

The report should serve as a sobering reminder to those who have come to regard Darfur and Eastern Chad as "low-intensity conflict," with putative signs of de-escalating violence, rural rebuilding, and "optimism" on the part of Darfuris. The growing effort to re-write the narrative of the Darfur genocide---minimizing overall mortality, speciously questioning the most conspicuous realities of genocide, denying significant violence and human destruction after 2004, refusing to see how desperate the overall humanitarian situation remains---hardly accommodates the individual narratives that we find in PHR's path-breaking study.

Michelle . has been involved in various activist endeavors, including the Teach Against Genocide pilot campaigns.
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