more from sudan...

excerpted from a news article today... the saddest thing about this all, is that this has been a part of the arab m.o. in africa for centuries...

`We Want to Make a Light Baby`

Arab Militiamen in Sudan Said to Use Rape as Weapon of Ethnic Cleansing

By Emily Wax Washington Post Foreign Service Wednesday, June 30, 2004; GENEINA, Sudan, June 29 --

At first light on Sunday, three young women walked into a scrubby field just outside their refugee camp in West Darfur. They had gone out to collect straw for their family`s donkeys. They recalled thinking that the Arab militiamen who were attacking African tribes at night would still be asleep. But six men grabbed them, yelling Arabic slurs such as "zurga" and "abid," meaning "black" and "slave."

Then the men raped them, beat them and left them on the ground, they said. "They grabbed my donkey and my straw and said, `Black girl, you are too dark. You are like a dog. We want to make a light baby,` " said Sawela Suliman, 22, showing slashes from where a whip had struck her thighs as her father held up a police and health report with details of the attack.

"They said, `You get out of this area and leave the child when it`s made.` " Suliman`s father, a tall, proud man dressed in a flowing white robe, cried as she described the rape.

It was not an isolated incident, according to human rights officials and aid workers in this region of western Sudan, where 1.2 million Africans have been driven from their lands by government-backed Arab militias, tribal fighters known as Janjaweed.

Interviews with two dozen women at camps, schools and health centers in two provincial capitals in Darfur yielded consistent reports that the Janjaweed were carrying out waves of attacks targeting African women. The victims and others said the rapes seemed to be a systematic campaign to humiliate the women, their husbands and fathers, and to weaken tribal ethnic lines. In Sudan, as in many Arab cultures, a child`s ethnicity is attached to the ethnicity of the father. "The pattern is so clear because they are doing it in such a massive way and always saying the same thing," said an international aid worker who is involved in health care.

She and other international aid officials spoke on condition of anonymity, saying they feared reprisals or delays of permits that might hamper their operations.

She showed a list of victims from Rokero, a town outside of Jebel Marra in central Darfur where 400 women said they were raped by the Janjaweed. "It`s systematic," the aid worker said. "Everyone knows how the father carries the lineage in the culture. They want more Arab babies to take the land. The scary thing is that I don`t think we realize the extent of how widespread this is yet."

Another international aid worker, a high-ranking official, said: "These rapes are built on tribal tensions and orchestrated to create a dynamic where the African tribal groups are destroyed. It`s hard to believe that they tell them they want to make Arab babies, but it`s true. It`s systematic, and these cases are what made me believe that it is part of ethnic cleansing and that they are doing it in a massive way."

Secretary of State Colin L. Powell flew to the capital, Khartoum, on Tuesday to pressure the government to take steps to ease the humanitarian crisis in Darfur. U.S. officials said Powell may threaten to seek action by the United Nations if the Sudanese government blocks aid and continues supporting the Janjaweed.

U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan is due to arrive on Khartoum this week. The crisis in Darfur is a result of long-simmering ethnic tensions between nomadic cattle and camel herders, who view themselves as Arabs, and the more sedentary farmers, who see their ancestry as African. In February 2003, activists from three of Darfur`s African tribes started a rebellion against the government, which is dominated by an Arab elite. Riding on horseback and camel, the Janjaweed, many of them teenagers or young adults, burned villages, stole and destroyed grain supplies and animals and raped women...

*notice how last year , the US was in such a fever to get at iraq that they ignored the UN ...The US couldn't even wait for the UN to complete the weapons inspections it was trying to conduct before sending in the 'calvary' to rescue the world from saddam hussein...

Back then ,the US couldn't wait for , to use George W. Bush's words , "a permission slip to be signed" by the international community before acting .


NOW , with this looming catastrophe ,described as potentially the worst humanitarian disaster on the planet... suddenly the US needs to take this to the UN , when it has already been established , by eyes and ears , on the ground observations , as well as probably also satellite data , that the Sudanese government is not only allowing the genocide but also supplying the janjaweed militias with weapons ,and providing air support for their attacks on villagers .

From the painful vantage point of our own history , it is plain that the arab invaders continue to defile the motherland . This has been going on for thousands of years in Africa and has gone on also in what is now called the "middle east" ...Review "the Destruction of Black Civilization : Great Issues of a race 4500 bc to 2000 ad" by dr.Chancellor Williams to see the clear picture .

the arabs have done more to destroy black civilization than even the europeans have done , but both seem to try their best at their nefarious task.

the fact that the entire black world --one billion people globally and occupying some of the most minerally rich lands on the planet are powerless to stop this outrage and genocide in sudan , is even more evidence that Father Garvey was right about the URGENT need for Black people to politically and economically unite .

News reports reveal that 100 to 200 people are already dying per day from disease and malnutrition in the refugee camps and more than a million people in the region , are now at risk...In a world as obviously as anti-black as this one can be , we must unite and build our strength , or perish and be wiped from the earth forever