Other Genocides

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Darfur in Sudan, not Israel/Gaza.

ADRE, Chad, Nov 7 (Reuters) - People fleeing to Chad have reported a new surge in ethnically-driven killings in Sudan's West Darfur as the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) took over the main army base in the state capital El Geneina.

On Tuesday, a Reuters reporter saw a trail of men crossing from Darfur into Chad at Adre, about 27 km (17 miles) west of El Geneina. Three of those who fled said they had witnessed killings by Arab militias and RSF forces targeting the Masalit ethnic group in Ardamata, an outlying district in El Geneina that is home to the army base and to a camp for internally displaced people (IDP).

The RSF did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Reuters was not able to independently verify the accounts of what took place.

Reuters has previously reported that between April and June this year, the RSF and allied Arab militias conducted weeks of systematic attacks targeting the Masalit, El Geneina's majority ethnic African tribe, as war flared in the country between the RSF and Sudan's army.

In public comments, Arab tribal leaders have denied engaging in ethnic cleansing in El Geneina, and the RSF has previously said it was not involved in what it described as a tribal conflict.

At talks in Jeddah, the warring parties agreed to facilitating aid deliveries and confidence-building measures, mediators said on Tuesday, but efforts to secure a ceasefire have so far failed.

https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/da ... 023-11-07/

[joele]

Well Sudan were one of the signatories showing SUPPORT for China's Genocide of the Uyghurs, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz and other Turkic Muslims, sigh.. Everything seems to have gone quiet on that front, they just slowly, killing, "re-educating" and forcefully sterilizing them with little to no media coverage or outcry at all??

Interesting list of supporters of China's actions towards these Muslim groups (signed letter of support) - Angola, Bahrain, Belarus, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Central African Republic, China, Comoros, Democratic Republic of Congo, Cuba, Dominica, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Gabon, Grenada, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Iran, Iraq, Kiribati, Laos, Madagascar, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nepal, Nicaragua, North Korea, Pakistan, State of Palestine, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Sudan, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Syria, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, the U.A.E., Venezuela, Yemen, and Zimbabwe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uyghur_genocide

[Irrev-Black]

Keep an eye on Senegal.

https://kolektiva.social/@YPJ_Info/111405422609855260

[Irrev-Black]

Oh, and Yemen.

The UN has estimated that the war in Yemen had killed 377,000 people by the end of 2021, through direct and indirect causes. Over 150,000 of these deaths were the direct result of the armed conflict, while far more have died due to hunger and disease as a result of the humanitarian crisis caused by the war. Nearly 15,000 civilians have been killed by direct military action, most of them in air strikes by the Saudi-led Coalition.

Air raids have frequently targeted civilian gatherings such as weddings and busy market places where there was no military target nearby, often with extremely deadly consequences. Many of these air raids appear to be clear violations of International Humanitarian Law.

Despite UK government claims that it provides training to the Coalition to avoid civilian casualties, there is no sign that this has reduced the deadly toll of the air raids. UK-manufactured weapons have been tied to individual attacks violating International Humanitarian Law.

https://caat.org.uk/homepage/stop-armin ... civilians/

[joele]

More On Sudan..

"We've issued warning after warning about what was going to happen if the international community did not respond," Nathaniel Raymond, a human rights investigator, said.

He said his team at the Yale Humanitarian Research Lab had been watching events in Sudan from satellite imagery and open-source data collection since hostilities broke out in April.

What he feared then would occur, has occurred and is continuing, he said.

"That is the mass killing of non-Arab civilians in Darfur. Nobody cares," he added.

Hemeti was a leader of the notorious Janjaweed militia who raped and murdered thousands of civilians in Darfur in the early 2000s.

Now they are back to "finish the job" as one analyst put it.

The world has responded with silence, said Mathilde Vu of the Norwegian Refugee Council.

"We always talk about 'never again' but we’ve seen two ‘never agains’ in the past six months alone in Sudan," she added.

RSF and allied Arab fighters carried out a weeks-long assault on civilians from the Masalit tribe in Al Geneina, West Darfur, in June.

In the wake of the attacks, satellite images revealed mass graves.

The militias attacked again in early November, this time targeting the people who had survived the first massacre.

Now RSF forces are bearing down on El Fasher, North Darfur, home to hundreds of thousands of civilians.

Over the past few months, the Security Council persistently failed to address the spiralling violence in Sudan, according to Mohamed Osman of Human Rights Watch.

"Some members, including Gabon, Ghana, Mozambique and the United Arab Emirates, have blocked the Council’s efforts to condemn the abuses," he said.

https://www.rte.ie/news/world/2023/1202/1419678-sudan/

[Irrev-Black]

Meanwhile, in Sudan...

Between 10,000 and 15,000 people were killed in one city in Sudan's West Darfur region last year in ethnic violence by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and allied Arab militia, according to a United Nations report seen by Reuters on Friday.

In the report to the U.N. Security Council, independent U.N. sanctions monitors attributed the toll in El Geneina to intelligence sources and contrasted it with the U.N. estimate that about 12,000 people have been killed across Sudan since war erupted on April 15, 2023, between the Sudanese army and the RSF.

The monitors also described as "credible" accusations that the United Arab Emirates had provided military support to the RSF "several times per week" via Amdjarass in northern Chad. A top Sudanese general accused the UAE in November of backing the RSF war effort.

In a letter to the monitors, the UAE said 122 flights had delivered humanitarian aid to Amdjarass to help Sudanese fleeing the war. The United Nations says about 500,000 people have fled Sudan into eastern Chad, several hundred kilometers south of Amdjarass.

Between April and June last year El Geneina experienced "intense violence," the monitors wrote, accusing the RSF and allies of targeting the ethnic African Masalit tribe in attacks that "may amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity."

The RSF has previously denied the accusations and said any of its soldiers found to be involved would face justice.

The RSF did not immediately respond to a request for comment by Reuters.

"The attacks were planned, coordinated, and executed by RSF and their allied Arab militias," the sanctions monitors wrote in their annual report to the 15-member Security Council.

https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/et ... 024-01-19/

[joele]

Tigray War in Ethiopia..

The Tigray War was an armed conflict that lasted from 3 November 2020 to 3 November 2022. The war was primarily fought in the Tigray Region of Ethiopia between forces allied to the Ethiopian federal government and Eritrea on one side, and the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) on the other.

Between 80,000 and 600,000 casualties over 2 years and almost no coverage.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tigray_War

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Tigray War in Ethiopia..

The Tigray War was an armed conflict that lasted from 3 November 2020 to 3 November 2022. The war was primarily fought in the Tigray Region of Ethiopia between forces allied to the Ethiopian federal government and Eritrea on one side, and the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) on the other.

Between 80,000 and 600,000 casualties over 2 years and almost no coverage.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tigray_War

Only pink people matter unless it's really got stuff that looks impressive on camera.

[joele]

Only pink people matter unless it's really got stuff that looks impressive on camera.

Is it really just that? I am sure there was plenty of "impressive" footage of Ethiopia or Yemen massacres.

I think there are additional factors, for example financial interests (why even Muslim countries care nothing for, well in fact support, China wiping out the Uyghurs).

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Only pink people matter unless it's really got stuff that looks impressive on camera.

Is it really just that? I am sure there was plenty of "impressive" footage of Ethiopia or Yemen massacres.

I think there are additional factors, for example financial interests (why even Muslim countries care nothing for, well in fact support, China wiping out the Uyghurs).

Point well made! In any case, most news media are about as objective as dunny wall graffiti.