Why Is the World Ignoring a Looming Genocide in Sudan? ( foreignpolicy.com )

Aid workers fear a new disaster as militia forces close in on a major Darfur city.

On a sunny April afternoon in 2006, thousands of people flocked to the National Mall in Washington, D.C., for a rally with celebrities, Olympic athletes, and rising political stars. Their cause: garner international support to halt a genocide in Sudan’s Darfur region.

“If we care, the world will care. If we act, then the world will follow,” Barack Obama, then the junior Illinois senator, told the crowd, speaking alongside future House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. That same week, then-Sen. Joe Biden introduced a bill in Congress calling on NATO to intervene to halt the genocide in Sudan. “We need to take action on both a military and diplomatic front to end the conflict,” he said.

victorz ,

How many concurrent genocides do we have going on right now in the world? Like four? Five? I'm not sure.

Gsus4 , (edited )
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ongoing_armed_conflicts plus whatever is happening in Xinjiang.

unreasonabro ,

shouldn't that be "why is the world ignoring a looming genocide in sudan again?"

Cybermonk_Taiji ,

Because the world always ignores every catastrophe in Africa since forever.

afraid_of_zombies ,

It isn't trendy and I don't get to cosplay like I care about it.

FlyingSquid Mod ,
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Who's going to recognize the Darfur flag when I put it in my Facebook profile?

Agent641 ,

Sorry, Ill go fix it now that you've brought it to my attention.

RvTV95XBeo ,

No Jira ticket, no fixy.

anas ,

Because we’re all anti-semites. Every single one of us. We only care because Jews are doing it.

You’re going to get there, might as well speed it up.

workerONE ,

What are you talking about?

bobs_monkey ,

A wee bit of projection

corsicanguppy ,

I hate that there's a voice in the back of my mind saying I'm gonna get called an anti-semite again. Damn you.

mechoman444 ,

The world has a tendency to ignore genocides that include mostly brown people killing eachother off.

Point and case: the genocide in the old Yugoslavian block was front page news. Rwanda on the other hand barely a blip.

protist ,

I was a ~12 year old child when the Rwanda genocide was happening and remember hearing about it on the news all the time

dubyakay ,

Curious, are you from the UK?

I was living in Hungary at that time, and of course ex-Yugoslavia being the southern neighbour, the news was non stop about it. However I have only learned of the genocide from watching Hotel Rwanda.

Drusas ,

Not the person you asked, but I was a similar age at the time and I was in the US. It made the news regularly.

protist ,

I used to live in Texas. Still do, but used to, too

corsicanguppy ,

Rwanda had no oil.

GregorGizeh , (edited )

The honest answer is that I can only care about so many ongoing genocides at once before I go numb towards it. And I am more invested in the one happening two countries over. And the absurdly cynical one committed by a people who had plenty of genocides happen against them over the course of history.

anticolonialist ,

Pulls out Peter Griffin skin tone threat chart

mlg ,
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tbf they didn't care about the bosnian genocide either

They should update that meme with a list of money sources

anticolonialist ,

Same issue as now, a democrat was involved so it was ok to ignore.

corsicanguppy ,

I think my workmate was in Bosnia as a peacekeeper. I may have the wrong Bosnian conflict, though.

Frog ,

The United Nations has been reporting the famine and war crimes in Sudan for decades.

AdamEatsAss ,

I hate to say it but it's been going on for too long, most people don't care anymore. New conflicts have taken the spotlight.

NABDad ,

Because ignoring genocides is what the world does.

carl_dungeon ,

I mean, they’re ignoring the one in Palestine and the one in China, and even taking sides against Ukraine, so how is this any different?

zeppo ,
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Palestine seems like 60% of what I hear about in national news and on Lemmy. Ukraine, though, no so much. People can't use it to talk shit about Biden, after all.

fuckingkangaroos ,

The Kremlin is pumping social media full of anti-Biden propaganda, using Israel's genocide as a wedge to split the Democratic vote so they can get Trump elected again.

DragonTypeWyvern ,

Why won't anyone think of the real victims, American liberals!

corsicanguppy ,

If they succeed, Palestine and Sudan and Ukraine will be every bit as fucked, but so will America with all its money and rockets.

FlyingSquid Mod ,
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Or, you know, peace protesters...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/27/trump-donors-israel-gaza-palestinian-protests

corsicanguppy ,

People can’t use it to talk shit about Biden, after all.

No. The Kremlin and Trumpers are using it to single out Biden so people will forget them and trade Bad for Much Worse.

cygnus ,
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ignoring the one in Palestine

???

It's impossible to go on any social media without hearing about it.

NoIWontPickAName ,

But no one is stopping it, so they’re ignoring it

DolphinMath OP , (edited )

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