Sudan commits Genocide - page A18 No Mention of Syria using Chemical Weapons

Arab majority Sudanese government commits mass murder against non-Arabs......comPost buries story on page A18....never identifies ethnicity of murders or victims.

To understand the conflict as an Arab campaign of ethnic cleansing, see Samantha Powers at the New Yorker

.......while http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/ links to Die Welt report - that Syria tested chemical weapons in Sudan killing dozens.


Syria tested chemical arms on civilians in Darfur region: press

BERLIN : Syria tested chemical weapons on civilians in Sudan's troubled western Darfur region in June and killed dozens of people.

The German daily Die Welt newspaper, in an advance release of its Wednesday edition, citing unnamed western security sources, said that injuries apparently caused by chemical arms were found on the bodies of the victims.


Bet we'll never see either reports at the comPost.

As you read the comPost article, note the passive voice, the implicit link of disease to acts of nature and the antiseptically neutral adjectives......no use of descriptors like 'brutal', 'devastating' or 'merciless'...the language reserved for Israel and more recently Russia.




Death Rates in Darfur Rising, WHO Says

U.N. Agency Cites Disease and Sudanese-Backed Militia as Causes of Increase
By Colum Lynch
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, September 15, 2004; Page A18


UNITED NATIONS, Sept. 14 -- Between 6,000 and 10,000 people are dying from disease and violence each month in Sudan's Darfur region as heavy rains and a marauding militia hinder U.N. efforts to respond to one of Africa's worst humanitarian crises, according to a survey of mortality rates by the United Nations' World Health Organization.

The latest U.N. figures demonstrate that survival rates have worsened in Darfur over the past three months as the United Nations struggles to provide food to nearly 1 million displaced people in more than 120 camps throughout Darfur. The main killers are preventable diseases such as diarrhea, which accounted for nearly a quarter of the deaths, and a wave of violence that has plagued the region since civil war began in February 2003.

The resolution also calls for a formal U.N. inquiry into human rights abuses to determine if genocide has occurred there. The European Union backed the Bush administration's call for a U.N. commission of inquiry to determine whether the government or government- backed militia is guilty of committing genocide.

In an attempt to broaden support for the resolution, the United States presented council members on Tuesday with a revised version of the resolution. It softened the threat of sanctions, asking only that the council "shall consider" imposing punitive measures against Sudan if it fails to comply with its obligations. A previous version warned that the council "will take further actions" if Sudan does not comply.


Meanwhile......

PA religious leaders call for genocide of Jews

By Itamar Marcus & Barbara Crook, PMW

Introduction
Twice in three days, PA religious leaders have openly called for the genocide of Jews. Broadcast on official PA TV, both called for the murder of Jews until the Jewish people are annihilated. Both presented the killing of Jews not merely as the will of Allah, but also as a necessary stage in history that should be carried out now. To support these mandatory killings, both cited the same Hadith - Islamic tradition attributed to Mohammed - expressing Allah’s will that Muslims will kill Jews, before the “Hour” of Resurrection.



Notice a pattern here.....Sudan, Syria and the Palestinians