Orang Islam ngebantai orang Nuba di Sudan. Lalu, apa reaksi orang2 Islam dan anjing2 piaraan mereka di milis ini? Paling2 nuduh dan ngefitnah sambil anjing piaraan mereka akan ngejilat pantat Islam. http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jun/06/act-now-stop-genocide-sudan-nuba We must act now to stop the genocide of Sudan's Nuba people The international community has ignored Khartoum's attack on the Nuba people for too long – now humanitarian disaster looms * * * Giles Fraser * guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 6 June 2012 14.10 BST In the early 1900s, a young Winston Churchill, then a soldier in north Africa, described how a group of Sudanese troops requiring target practice were sent to attack those living in the Nuba mountains. A century later and history is repeating itself. This time, however, the aim is not target practice – the aim is annihilation. Khartoum's bombs began raining on the Nuba people on 6 June last year. Since then half a million civilians have been displaced, fleeing their homes from more than 1,000 confirmed aerial bombings by MIG fighter jets and Antonov warplanes. With little to protect them, people have resorted to digging holes in the ground or making their homes in caves just to hide from government forces. Unsurprisingly, food is scarce. With villagers unable to farm and President Omar Hassan al-Bashir preventing humanitarian aid from reaching the region, widespread famine and disease are ever-present threats. This is just the latest chapter of the Nuba people's bloodstained relationship with Khartoum. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, major military campaigns were waged against the region. Nuba leaders were executed en masse, the population forcibly displaced, and villages burnt to the ground to prevent people returning. This culminated in January 1992 with South Kordofan governor Lieutenant General al-Hussein formally declaring holy war in the Nuba mountains and advocating wholesale murder, abduction, rape, family separation and forced religious conversion. The main intent, then as now, was a racially pure Arab Islamist state through ethnic cleansing of Sudan's traditional patchwork of peoples. Any doubt about Khartoum's aim was laid bare last October with South Kordofan governor Ahmed Haroun's broadcast on government radio when he issued a rallying cry to his troops: "When you go on your mission, if you find them, kill them, sweep them away, eat them. Do not bring me any prisoners of war. We have no quarter for them." How many more warnings from organisations such as Waging Peace – a human rights group that campaigns against genocide and systematic human rights violations, of which I am patron – will be necessary for the world to take notice? The Nuba people cannot afford another year to pass before the international community acts. Delay would risk yet again ignoring the pledge we make and break every time genocide takes place: "Never again". The UK and international community must act now. Pressure should be applied on Khartoum to allow access for humanitarian aid agencies. Hundreds of thousands of people are in dire need. Unless their most basic food, water and health needs are met urgently, we risk humanitarian catastrophe. In addition, a no-fly zone should be established to stop the government's aerial attacks, while UN sanctions should be applied to stop the flow of weapons to the government. These actions would do much to prevent the situation deteriorating further. But ultimately, we must stop appeasing Bashir's regime. The world has averted its gaze from Sudan for too long in the hope Bashir would be more conciliatory. Yet it has led only to more belligerence, more bloodshed, and more terror for those living under his power. Perhaps we should not be surprised. Conciliatory diplomacy was ineffective in Darfur – evidence shows trouble in the region is far from over. It is likely to be ineffective in the Nuba mountains. Addressing the underlying cause of Sudan's troubles means ensuring Bashir and others in his regime are brought to justice at the international criminal court to stand trial for his crimes against humanity – otherwise we risk sitting idly by as they get away with murder.
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