Militias destroyed 56,000 Sudanese homes, U.S. says

[hightime]

UNITED NATIONS -- Satellite photos show that about 56,000 houses have been destroyed in nearly 400 villages in fighting in the Darfur region of western Sudan and the destruction has spread into neighboring Chad, the U.S. aid chief said Thursday.
Andrew Natsios, administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development, blamed the devastation on Arab militias known as the Janjaweed that have killed and routed locals and are linked to the Sudanese government.
U.S. experts estimate that about 400,000 people once lived in the 56,000 mud brick houses with conically shaped roofs known as tukels that were destroyed in Darfur, he said. Thousands more lived in 32 villages across the border in Chad that have been destroyed or damaged.
Natsios said no one knows how many of the people who lost their homes were killed, but between 10,000 and 30,000 Sudanese are estimated to have died in the fighting which began in February 2003.

http://www.sltrib.com/2004/Jun/06252004/nation_w/178783.asp

Sorry if this interrupts the important discussions about the perfidious slut who sucked a presidents dick or the article about the jacking judge. :puke:

[aquart]

1. More than homes were destroyed.

Wells were poisoned by throwing dead livestock into them. They killed the livestock, fouled the seed.

Created a dead land so that the people can't come back. These are Muslims who burn mosques and destroy Korans. I don't think they've got any virgins waiting.

[hightime]

2. But...what does Monica think of this?

[bahrbearian]

14. And the good Christians go on a Crusade in Iraq.

[NMDemDist2]

3. one more of the many things this (mis) administration is ignoring

or mismanaging :mad:

[hightime]

4. The Sudan is not under U.S. mommyship. This is the U.N.'s job.

But I gave up on them ages ago. Rwanda.

[smokindrew]

5. Another Quagmire to get ourselves into!

I sure don't want us to get involved in another quagmire where the people will surely only feel that we are occupying their land!

[DrWeird]

6. So if the Germans were gassing jews...

you're saying you wouldn't want to get involved?

[treepig]

7. but let's suppose the germans were gassing jews

because of our involvement?

in reference, of course, to those analyses that suggest that it was rather touch and go there for a while for mr. hitler, and (one of the) deciding factors in his favor was american support from smaller (mr. prescott bush) or larger (mr. ford) sources.

perhaps just keeping our nose out of everyone's business but our own is the best policy over the long run?

[DrWeird]

8. I try to make things as simple as practically possible.

You and I both know how certain people get easily confused.

[treepig]

10. yeah, don't mind me, i'm just in a somewhat ornery mood

right now.

:freak:

[bahrbearian]

15. Yeah like Bosnia ?

[DrWeird]

9. Let me get this straight. You want to leave it up to the UN...

whom you gave up on. Because they gave up on Rwanda.

[hightime]

11. Just because I think they are worthless and don't do their job

doesn't exempt them from having the job to do. Anytime they want to surprise me they have my permission. Perhaps they will send a commission to write a report. That should stop this.

[DrWeird]

13. yet you don't want to get involved in the Sudan...

because that's the UN's job.

[bahrbearian]

17. If the U.S. won't do it we'll have to go it alone ( Kofi Anna}

They're just a debating society

[bahrbearian]

16. Wolfowitz explained yesterday how the U.N. messed up Iraq,

the UN can't get it Reich !

[Darranar]

19. The US doesn't seem to have been very successful in Sudan...

and they've been intervening there for a while.

The result of the sanctions were increased poverty and desperation, which is one of the reasons for these atrocities.

[The Commie]

12. And they won't sream genocide...

...because then they would have to do something about it. :argh:

[Darranar]

18. This campaign of genocide is unjustified and inexcusable...

all possible non-violent means should be used to stop it, and some violent if necessary.