I don’t understand how the entire world can just watch a country that is systematically killing thousands of people, 70% of which are children under 5, and do nothing about it. We’re so on top of it when it comes to getting rid of civil liberties or fostering good trade relations with
India, but for some reason, genocide just doesn’t rank up there in term of things that we should be concentrating on.
At least there’s a little hope. A
US deputy secretary of state and a representative for the European Union met with government officials in
Khartoum to negotiate sending UN peacekeeping troupes in
Sudan. Up until now, they have refused to allow a UN peacekeeping operation in
Darfur, claiming that the African Union has been good enough. Nothing has been agreed to yet, but I have a little glimmer of optimism knowing that there has been at least some progress. Still, why is it that when all kinds of people agree that a government is sponsoring a genocide we still need the government’s permission to go into the country and stop the atrocity that is occurring. And even if the UN was able to go into
Sudan, it would still have significant problems in raising the resources and support it really needs since most of the troupes would come from
Africa.
In an age with so much technology and so much money going everywhere, I feel like there’s such a misallocation of resources in the world. We blame conflict on cultural differences and religious fanaticism and the sheer evil of humanity, but somehow I believe that alleviating economic depravation would really help a lot of these conflicts across the world. Ridding ourselves of some self-indulgence as a nation or as a western world might really take care of a lot of the political and ideological battles that we constantly face.
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