The war is killing tens of thousands, but not getting the attention it deserves. The reasons why are as complex as the conflict itself, asks Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland
Refugees from Darfur in Sudan wait for a World Food Programme food distribution point to open at a temporary camp in Adre, Chad.Refugees from Darfur in Sudan wait for a World Food Programme food distribution point to open at a temporary camp in Adre, Chad.The war is killing tens of thousands, but not getting the attention it deserves. The reasons why are as complex as the conflict itselfemember when we said that Black Lives Matter? We didn’t mean it.
Take the testimony of one of those many millions who has fled Sudan for neighbouring Chad, a young woman called Maryam Suleiman. She told the New York Times about the day that the Rapid Support Forces, the rebadged version of the Janjaweed – the Arab militia guilty of the Darfur slaughter two decades ago –. The gunmen lined up the men and the boys as their leader declared: “We don’t want to see any Black people. We don’t even want to see black trash bags.
Ferguson wonders if there’s a sense that Darfur was meant to be “done” 20 years ago and many of the celebrities and others who took a stand then are wearied by the prospect of. It’s also clear that the nature of the Sudan conflict, a civil war, means there is no single government, no Volodymyr Zelenskyy figure, for outsiders to line up behind..
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