Gengen Genocide
GenGen “Genocide”
Its a satirical animation which shows China’s cynical use of the Olympics to burnish its own image — while underwriting a genocide in Darfur.
The key to the tragedy in Darfur is to be found in Khartoum, Sudan's booming capital.
The sleek new office towers sprouting up in the commercial district explain why Sudan's government has resisted American and European pressure to end the genocide.
They also show why Arabs and Asians - and especially the Chinese - have the power to influence Sudan and the responsibility to use it...
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Genocide and Olympia
Kristof: The pain of the G-8’sThe G-8’s collective shrug today about the Darfur genocide - because the victims are black, impoverished and hidden from television cameras - will be a lingering stain.
“Genocide has always evoked a transcendent horror, and it has little to do with the numbers of victims. The Holocaust resonates not because 6 million Jews were killed but because a government picked people on the basis of their religious heritage and tried to exterminate them.”
“There are also practical arguments, for genocide can create cycles of revenge and displacement that make it far more destabilizing than any famine or epidemic. The Darfur genocide may well lead all Sudan to fragment into civil war, interrupting Sudanese oil exports and raising oil prices.”
Video included: “The Genocide Insider”
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