Sudan - ‘world’s largest humanitarian crisis’
The vast majority of media comment from the BBC to the left-wing press such as the Guardian and even posts on this humble Forum has raged about and denounced what are claimed to be 'humanitarian atrocities' - military actions, civilian deaths etc, carried out by Israel in its war with the Palestinians.Posters on this Forum have stated their positions as to whether they believe Israel is perpetrating such, and if so whether in a time of war some explanation, if not the condoning of them, is possible.However what the continual focus on and denouncing of Israel's behaviour has done, perhaps deliberately, is to turn attention away from what is happening in other parts of the world and what atrocities Islamist Arabs are perpetrating on a far, far more massive scale against non-Arabs in Africa.Even the Guardian and the UN is beginning to take notice and show concern, diverting its attention from Gaza.Today's Guardian."NGOs and UN say country is ‘worse off than ever before’ with wide-scale displacement, hunger and attacks on refugee camps". 'Sudan is suffering from the largest humanitarian crisis globally and its civilians are continuing to pay the price for inaction by the international community, NGOs and the UN have said, as the country’s civil war enters its third year.The UK is hosting ministers from 20 countries in London on Tuesday in an attempt to restart stalled peace talks. However, diplomatic efforts have often been sidelined by other crises, including the wars in Ukraine and Gaza.Two years to the day since fighting erupted in Khartoum between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary (ISLAMIST - my comment) Rapid Support Forces, hundreds of people were feared to have died in RSF attacks on refugee camps in the western Darfur region in the latest apparent atrocity of a war marked by its brutality and wide-scale humanitarian impact.The consequences for Sudan’s 51 million people have been devastating. Tens of thousands are reportedly dead. Hundreds of thousands face famine. Almost 13 million people have been displaced, 4 million of those to neighbouring countries.“Sudan is now worse off than ever before,” said Elise Nalbandian, Oxfam’s regional advocacy manager. “The largest humanitarian crisis, largest displacement crisis, largest hunger crisis … It’s breaking all sorts of wrong records.”There were “massive-scale” violations of international humanitarian law in the conflict, said Daniel O’Malley, the head of the International Committee of the Red Cross delegation in Sudan. “All of the civilian population, irrespective of where they are in the country, have basically been trapped between one, two or more parties. And they have been bearing the brunt of everything. The sheer numbers are just mind-boggling.”It is also claimed that as a fall out from this intra-Islamic civil war is that Christians are also being persecuted. In January of this year the US formally declared that the RSF had committed genocide, marking the second time in less than 30 years that genocide had been perpetrated in Sudan.The United Arab Emirates has been accused of fuelling the conflict by arming the RSF. Emirati passports allegedly found on the battlefield last year point to potential covert boots on the ground.All of this does not make for pleasant writing or reading and of course any claims of genocide should not be ranked in order of wickedness.However it does put the claims made against Israel into some form of perspective.
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