Sunday Globe Special: Sudan's N-Word

Unfortunately, one realizes over time that the EUSraeli empire's interest in the region extends to its weapons-smuggling hub (thus explaining why the region is awash in weapons and in such terrible shape), and the oil South Sudan sits upon (the real reason for generous George Bush's attention and diplomatic success).

 The fact that the Sudanese government is a supporter of Palestinian rights doesn't help, either.

"Refugees flee to camp near Sudan border; 31,000 Nuba residents seek haven in South" by Jason Straziuso  |  Associated Press, May 27, 2012

YIDA, South Sudan - The Yida camp near the militarized Sudan-South Sudan border now holds 31,000 Nuba refugees - almost double the number of less than two months ago.

And the camp is bracing for thousands more, just before seasonal rains could choke off food supplies that are delivered on the roughest of dirt roads.

Back in their homeland, the refugees have been enduring bombardment from Sudanese warplanes and a crisis-level food shortage they blame on Sudan’s president. Aid groups say Sudan - a mostly Arab nation - is intentionally trying to starve the black residents of the Nuba Mountains.

The latest arrivals say that in the Nuba Mountains - on Sudan’s side of the world’s newest border - people are eating leaves and roots. Food long ago ran out, and many have now eaten even all of their seeds meant for planting....

Stick-thin children are fed emergency rations. Refugees say people, mostly the young and old, back home are dying.

“There’s no food where we live, but people are eating the leaves of trees. Every morning they go to the bush to collect leaves. There is also a root of a tree that if you soak it for five days and then boil it, it is edible,’’ said Amira Tia, who arrived at the camp after walking in green flip flops for four days with her four children.

Sudan does not allow aid from UN or international groups to be delivered to Nuba, and no official assessments have been done about the conditions there.

Geoffrey Pinnock, the World Food Program’s emergency officer in Yida, fears that unknown.

“What we hear from refugees is that things are bad and getting worse,’’ he said while walking through the camp. “Some people haven’t had solid food in two months and then walk five days.’’

Muniara Kamal walked for six days to reach Nuba while carrying her 9-month-old girl, Safa, who wore a red sweatshirt with white hearts and swatted away flies while getting medical care. Tia said the group she was walking with was attacked by Antonov bombers twice. One man was cut in half by shrapnel, she said.

When South Sudan voted to break away from Sudan last year after decades of war, the people of the Nuba Mountains were caught in the middle. Now a full-on war is under way in their homeland.

Wow, what a QUIET LITTLE WAR, 'eh?

Even once they reach the relative safety of the camp, the threat of war remains. South Sudan’s military is on alert in case recent border skirmishes with Sudan escalate into a full-scale conflict.

The Yida camp is far more militarized than aid workers would like. South Sudan troops move through the camp, as do northern rebel groups fighting Sudan.

UN and other aid workers quietly say that rebel fighters use the camp for food and rest....

Translation: The U.N. camp is a sanctuary for agenda-pushing globalist agents and assets.

With the rains expected to start around June, the World Food Program is rushing to deliver more than 6,000 tons of food. On a recent day, dozens of Nuba men erected large storage facilities and unloaded sacks of food from the US government’s aid arm, USAID.  

AID is notoriously known around the world as an arm of the CIA.

The camp has a dirt airstrip, but the rains threaten to make the strip unusable. Goods could be parachuted in or dropped off by helicopter, but both methods are extremely expensive for a large refugee population.

Ibrahim Kallo, the head of the International Rescue Committee in Yida, said he is not counting on the runway being usable after the rains set in.

A recent emergency evacuation of a pregnant woman underscores the danger of being isolated by rain.

The International Rescue Committee sent the woman to Bentiu - the nearest city, but one that is three to four hours over a jarringly bumpy dirt road when it’s dry.

The mother made it to the hospital just before some early rains arrived. On the way back to the camp the truck got stuck, and the mother and her 3-day-old newborn had to spend the night in the truck without food, Kallo said.

At Yida, straw huts covered by blue or white UNICEF tarpaulins stand beneath the generous tree cover. Termite mounds 12 feet high or more tower above the scene.

Children - especially the new arrivals - wear torn or dusty clothes. Most are barefoot. The women vastly outnumber the men, many of whom have stayed behind to fight the Sudanese Armed Forces.

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Related: Spinning the Invasion of Sudan 

That's why I don't like reading the newspaper anymore.

And don't you say it!

"South Sudan military accused of abuse" Associated Press, May 25, 2012

JUBA, South Sudan - South Sudan military forces tasked with carrying out a disarmament campaign among feuding ethnic groups are raping, torturing, and killing members of a minority community, community leaders and aid workers say.  

Those are OUR GUYS, 'murkn!!!!

The disarmament campaign follows two outbreaks of violence linked to cattle raids between the Murle and Lou Nuer tribes in the remote state of Jonglei. Hundreds - and probably more than 1,000 - people were killed in the two clashes.

Related: MSM Silent on Sudanese Slaughter 

Well, you know, when it's our guys (blog editor sheepishly turns his head away)....

The Sudan People’s Liberation Army, South Sudan’s military, embarked on a disarmament campaign in March in which more than 10,000 weapons have been taken so far, said military spokesman Colonel Philip Aguer.

But aid groups and community members say soldiers are killing and torturing members of the Murle, a tribe reviled by many other South Sudanese. Alleged abuses include simulated drownings, tying up young men to trees and beating them, and widespread rape of women.

The Murle appear to be ostracized by most other tribes in part because they received military support from leaders in Khartoum, Sudan, when the south and north battled in a two-decade civil war. The Murle also have a reputation for carrying out child abductions from other tribes and of conducting cattle raids that can result in hundreds of human deaths and tens of thousands of stolen cattle....  

It's almost as if they deserved to be killed, tortured, and raped, 'eh?

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Also see: An arduous journey to become a US citizen

Update:

"A rare video shot by a soldier in a unit nicknamed the “match battalion’’ shows Sudanese troops burning a village in southern Sudan last year....  

Maybe it's all true; however, I no longer believe anything my AmeriKan media shows me.

Sorry.

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Update:

"Police chief orders protester crackdown

KHARTOUM — Sudan’s police chief ordered his forces Saturday to “firmly and immediately’’ quell antigovernment demonstrations that have entered their seventh day, while opposition groups reported a security crackdown on their leading members. General Hashem Othman al-Hussein told his aides to confront the rioters and the groups behind them, the SUNA news agency reported. It was a rare ­acknowledgment by the state media of demonstrations over government austerity, which have been concentrated in ­Khartoum but have spread to a provincial capital (AP)." 

And a rare acknowledgment by my AmeriKan media on protests in Sudan.  

That tells you a couple of things, readers. It tells you the agenda-pushing media won't even cover a protest that puts pressure on an enemy and makes them look bad if it might give the American people some ideas. It might also indicate that it is not a controlled-opposition, coup-generating crowd. 

Kinda funny how protests are kind of the N-word to the paper, huh?