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http://www.beta.frontlineclub.com/camp_services_shut_down/ Championing Independent Journalism Mon, 03 Sep 2012 09:28:33 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 http://www.beta.frontlineclub.com/camp_services_shut_down/#comment-1535 Sat, 07 Mar 2009 10:16:04 +0000 http://www.beta.frontlineclub.com/dev/?p=4010#comment-1535 UN officials initially said they were giving Bashir “the benefit of the doubt” as his govt expelled six NGOs from the camps. That was Tuesday. Decisions are sometimes revoked with Khartoum blaming overzealous local officials. But this has just escalated. There’s no going back now. Bashir himself has spoken about the NGOs so he can’t go back without losing face.
On the general peace v Justice thing, it strikes me that a lot of campaigners have been putting words in the mouths of the people in the camps. Not many people here are speaking to me about justice. They just want to go home.
Humanitarians were long warning about the possible implications to their programmes – fears which people like Nick Kristof of the New York Times said were exaggerated.
But this was sadly predictable

]]> http://www.beta.frontlineclub.com/camp_services_shut_down/#comment-1534 Fri, 06 Mar 2009 21:10:40 +0000 http://www.beta.frontlineclub.com/dev/?p=4010#comment-1534 s too little hope. ... Nothing new to report—except the shame of what man can do to man. And the secret seems to be that the longer it goes on, the more tolerant all of us become of it." But there is something new to report: the president of Sudan, Omar al-Bashir, has just been indicted for crimes against humanity, notes George, adding, it's a "tiny window of hope." WTF? Window of hope???? Window to an early grave maybe. Hope? Where's the hope for the folk you've been speaking to this week? ]]> Grim indeed Rob, do you think al-Bashir will relent? Is this simply a show of bravado or a more permanent decision?
As you were saying about the peace and justice argument a few days ago and having a go at the ICC decision fans, the combination of ICC and Al-Bashir is basically a death sentence for hundreds of thousands. Especially as it looks unlikely either side will back down.
BTW – have you read this quite pathetic/simplistic piece:
http://blogs.usatoday.com/entertainment/2009/03/george-clooney.html
Let me quote in case Your Darfur internet is withering along with the NGO’s who pay the connection bill,
George Clooney blogs today at The Daily Beast about his recent trip to the Darfur region.
“We walked through a village where children would follow me and chant the name “Obama.” His promise of “hope” having such a different meaning here. But there’s too little hope. … Nothing new to report—except the shame of what man can do to man. And the secret seems to be that the longer it goes on, the more tolerant all of us become of it.”
But there is something new to report: the president of Sudan, Omar al-Bashir, has just been indicted for crimes against humanity, notes George, adding, it’s a “tiny window of hope.”
WTF? Window of hope???? Window to an early grave maybe. Hope? Where’s the hope for the folk you’ve been speaking to this week?

]]> http://www.beta.frontlineclub.com/camp_services_shut_down/#comment-1533 Fri, 06 Mar 2009 07:26:34 +0000 http://www.beta.frontlineclub.com/dev/?p=4010#comment-1533 s Advertising Standards Authority ruled on Aug. 8 that the statistic used by the Washington, D.C.-based Save Darfur Coalition in its 2006 advertising campaign—400,000 deaths in Darfur since the conflict began in 2003—is unsubstantiated. The authority said it should have been presented as opinion, not fact. The Los Angeles Times reported on Aug. 26 that the current mortality rate in Darfur is near, or perhaps even below, the region's pre-conflict level. The exaggerated death toll and genocide claims have been used by the U.S. government to tighten economic sanctions against Sudan. Threats of a colonial, Iraqi-style occupation also have proliferated. "[G]roups in Washington, D.C. ... are using very distorted accusations in an attempt to get yet another military intervention in yet another oil-rich Muslim country," said David Hoile, director of the European-Sudanese Public Affairs Council. The U.S. governmentâ€s aim has been "regime change" in Sudan since at least the early 1990s. It aims to force Sudan into the U.S. sphere of influence entirely. ]]> ‘Save Darfur’ campaign lies about Sudan
Tuesday, August 28, 2007
By: Chris Banks
Inflating death toll to serve imperialist aims
Britain’s Advertising Standards Authority ruled on Aug. 8 that the statistic used by the Washington, D.C.-based Save Darfur Coalition in its 2006 advertising campaign—400,000 deaths in Darfur since the conflict began in 2003—is unsubstantiated. The authority said it should have been presented as opinion, not fact.
The Los Angeles Times reported on Aug. 26 that the current mortality rate in Darfur is near, or perhaps even below, the region’s pre-conflict level.
The exaggerated death toll and genocide claims have been used by the U.S. government to tighten economic sanctions against Sudan. Threats of a colonial, Iraqi-style occupation also have proliferated.
“[G]roups in Washington, D.C. … are using very distorted accusations in an attempt to get yet another military intervention in yet another oil-rich Muslim country,” said David Hoile, director of the European-Sudanese Public Affairs Council.
The U.S. government’s aim has been “regime change” in Sudan since at least the early 1990s. It aims to force Sudan into the U.S. sphere of influence entirely.

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