Tamil refugees have described the camps as being part of a genocidal agenda. The government calls the camps “welfare centers.”

The conventional view of Africa as a genocide inside a failed state inside a dictatorship is, in fact, wrong.

When the International Criminal Court issued its arrest warrant for Sudan’s president on Wednesday, an 8-year-old boy named Bakit Musa would have clapped — if only he still had hands.

The unlikely partnership between Rwandan and Congolese forces, which led to the capture of the warlord leader Laurent Nkunda, is a good sign for the war-torn region.

Sudan fears the Obama administration, and that means that, for the first time in years, there’s a real chance of ousting President Omar Hassan al-Bashir and his murderous regime.

We can use that desire also to shame and coax better behavior out of China’s leaders.

Sudan is capitalizing on high global food prices at a time when millions of people in its war-riddled region of Darfur barely have enough to eat.

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 BBC has found the first evidence that China is currently helping Sudan’s government militarily in Darfur.

The Panorama TV programme tracked down Chinese army lorries in the Sudanese province that came from a batch exported from China to Sudan in 2005.

The 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”

Special Plea to China, as Host of 2008 Olympics:
Bring the Olympic Dream to Darfur

By Ilan Greenberg (The New York Times)
FRIDAY, MARCH 28, 2008
Dream for Darfur is orchestrating a coalition to pressure China to change its policies by threatening to tarnish the Olympic Games this summer

By Nicholas D. Kristof (The New York Times)
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2008
Without easing the outrage over Darfur, we must broaden the focus to include the threat to the south of Sudan.
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/02/28/opinion/edkristof.php

By Mary Robinson (International Herald Tribune)
THURSDAY, JANUARY 10, 2008
Eastern Chad is in danger of becoming another Darfur
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/01/10/opinion/edrobinson.php