I'm having a hard time making them out.
"Aerial photos indicate mass graves in Sudan" July 15, 2011|Associated Press
NAIROBI - Sudan activists called yesterday for the United States and the international community to intervene in a region of Sudan inaccessible to outsiders after a US group released satellite photos of what they said appear to be mass graves.
The Satellite Sentinel Project images show what appear to be freshly dug sites in South Kordofan state, where Sudan’s Arab military has been targeting a black ethnic minority loyal to the military of the newly independent Republic of South Sudan. A witness told the project that he saw 100 bodies or more put into one of the pits....
Fighting broke out in the region June 5. Neither the United Nations, outside aid groups, nor journalists has access to the region, raising fears that more violence is being carried out than is known publicly.
Samuel Totten, a genocide scholar at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, said it is imperative that a team of investigators from the International Criminal Court in The Hague travel to the graves quickly to ascertain who the dead are in the graves, how many people were killed and in what manner.
A spokesman for Sudan’s ruling party denied the project’s allegations.
“Even if there is any suspicion on such pictures, people can go there and visit the area and see what is the actual reality,’’ said Rabie A. Atti, National Congress Party spokesman. “I think this is only rumors trying to, you know, blacken the people of our government.’’
Eric Reeves, a professor at Smith College in Massachusetts who has written a book on the atrocities in western Sudan’s Darfur region, said reports have been coming out of the Nuba Mountains for weeks of targeted killings.
“These accounts strongly suggest a carefully orchestrated campaign of ethnically targeted destruction, and a follow-up effort to hide the evidence,’’ Reeves said.
Yeah, but when western governments or those allied with them do it that is okay.
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"Aid group finds no emblem misuse in Sudan" July 16, 2011|Associated Press
NAIROBI - An internal investigation has found no evidence that people posed as Red Crescent workers to force refugees out of a UN-protected camp in a region of Sudan where at least 70 people have been killed, a spokeswoman for the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies said yesterday.
Fighting broke out in June in South Kordofan, an area of Sudan located near the newly independent Republic of South Sudan. A UN report obtained by the Associated Press last month said that Sudanese intelligence agents had posed as Red Crescent workers and ordered refugees to leave the camp.
If there is no evidence for that, how do we know the other thing is true?
How do we know anything in my agenda-pushing paper is true because that which we do know is constantly lied about?
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Related: Darfur gunmen kill UN peacekeeper
That one didn't develop very well because it was not in my printed paper.
