[Peace-discuss] Darfur talk

[C. G. Estabrook]

Thanks for the helpful summary, Mort.  Regarding "the long and
tragic history of the black peoples in Sudan" -- aren't all
the parties involved in Darfur, oppressors and oppressed
alike, black (and Muslim)?  Here much of "Darfur awareness"
(e.g., the article in the "Black History Month" issue of the
Public i) seems to suggest that blacks there are being
oppressed by Arabs, who it is implied are in some sense
non-black. --CGE


---- Original message ----
>Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 21:32:06 -0600
>From: "Morton K. Brussel" <brussel4 at insightbb.com>  
>Subject: [Peace-discuss] Darfur talk  
>To: Peace Discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>
>
>This was a very well attended talk by Mr. Deng this evening,
and  
>interesting. Deng was passionate in telling the long and tragic  
>history of the black peoples in Sudan. He asserted that slavery  
>continues in the Sudan.
>
>It is true (Carl had warned about such a move at our last
meeting)  
>that a form was passed out to attendees promoting action by
NATO, and  
>asking that appeals be made to President Bush to "do"
something.  
>However, the speaker said, in response to a leading question,
 that  
>he was not in favor of sending (Nato) troops to remedy what
he truly  
>called a long ongoing genocide there; they would do no good
he said,  
>and he didn't know how long they would remain there. As for the  
>African states, whom a questioner noted did not consider the
problems  
>in Sudan genocidal,  he responded that  many were corrupt and  
>dictatorial, and were playing games of "noninterference" to
protect  
>their own turf.
>
>It also seemed clear to me that the reason why so many Jewish  
>organizations (Hillel, etc.) on campus were sponsoring this
week of  
>action, and this talk, was that the speaker was fierce in his  
>condemnation of Arabs, a little less so with respect to
Muslims. He  
>is Christian.
>
>He appealed to his audience to demand of their
representatives to  
>government that they do something, but he was somewhat
unclear about  
>what he would recommend. He simply noted that previous
pressure by  
>the western governments on the Sudan authorities did do some
good,  
>but that now, they were essentially passive. 
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