Good reasons to not trust mainstream media reporting in the Sudan!

[Classical_Liberal]

Personal note: Also please consider the medias track record in Iraq, and Venezuala. They have proven extremely unreliable at reporting foriegn news, and are often manipulated by partisans like Chalabi, and the Latafunda nobility Venezuala. Also consider most of the people making a stink about this are neocons who seem to be motivated by a need to demonize the EU.


The Other Side in Darfur
August 26, 2004



The rampages of the Sudan government-backed Janjaweed in Darfur, that country’s unfortunate Western province, have been widely reported. Usually the coverage of Darfur, however, provides no clue about why it’s happening. It condescends to Africa: Oh well, it must be another one of those African things that make no sense, just evil Africans out to kill. But a recent New York Times piece sheds a little—just a little—light on the crisis.

It seems that the Muslim Brotherhood, in the person of Hassan Turabi, is backing the fighters on the other side of the crisis in Darfur, playing out a power struggle with the Bashir government in Khartoum:

Some trace the conflict in Darfur to a power struggle among top Muslim leaders in Khartoum.

In 1999, Mr. Bashir stripped his rival, Hassan al-Turabi, an Islamic hard-liner, of his positions as speaker of the Parliament and leader of the governing party. Two years later, Mr. Turabi was arrested and charged with being a threat to national security for signing a peace deal with the southern rebels.

After his release, Mr. Turabi founded the Popular Congress Party and reached out for support to the Muslim black African populations of Darfur. Before being jailed again in March, he acknowledged supporting the rebels of Darfur. "We support the cause, no doubt about it," he told the United Nations news agency in December. "I didn't say I'm involved with the fighting," he added. "I said we have relations with some of the leadership.".........

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/the_other_side_in_darfur.php

[Classical_Liberal]

1. Kick

:kick: This is actually important. How do we act intelligently when we don't really know what is going on?