Das kollektive Achselzucken der G8-Staaten über den Völkermord in Darfur heute – weil die Opfer eh nur schwarz sind, verarmt und vor den Fernsehkameras verborgen – wird ein fortwährender Makel bleiben.

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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.”

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