Why Is the World Ignoring a Looming Genocide in Sudan?
Why Is the World Ignoring a Looming Genocide in Sudan?
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.
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?
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.
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.
ignoring the one in Palestine
???
It's impossible to go on any social media without hearing about it.
But no one is stopping it, so they’re ignoring it
The United Nations has been reporting the famine and war crimes in Sudan for decades.
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.
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.
How many concurrent genocides do we have going on right now in the world? Like four? Five? I'm not sure.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ongoing_armed_conflicts plus whatever is happening in Xinjiang.
@victorz - The "fast"/ big obvious ones are Darfur and Gaza, but there's also probably Oromia, slow genocide in West Papua, Western Sahara, Xinjiang, and I think Nagorny-Karabakh and Tigray could start up again at some point. There is obviously a genocidal component to the Tatmadaw's activities in Myanmar but right now they seem to be getting their asses kicked by the alliance which includes ethnic minority armies.
Then there are the more obscure genocides that are mostly only mentioned outside western and english-language news media, for example the ongoing slow genocide of the Baloch people in the Balochistan region.
Sorry, Ill go fix it now that you've brought it to my attention.
No Jira ticket, no fixy.
This is literally the first time I'm hearing about it
Looming? Sudan is past the looming stage. When do known verified atrocities reach "current reality" status?
shouldn't that be "why is the world ignoring a looming genocide in sudan again?"
In the US at least, our policy today doesn’t affect this genocide. Outside of Sudan, the important parties are Egypt, the UAE, and factions in Libya. Whereas in Palestine US missiles and funding to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars are directly involved, US policy today does not affect Sudan materially.
Still though, the UN and other international organs are documenting and attempting to aid. It’s just not disputed by far right fucks in our government.
We can’t even handle the genocides we have now. Someone wants another? Ffs.
Pulls out Peter Griffin skin tone threat chart
tbf they didn't care about the bosnian genocide either
They should update that meme with a list of money sources
I mean, who is "they" in this case? NATO took an offensive action, potentially their only one in history, to disarm the Serbs and stop the genocidal side. It certainly wasn't ignored. Kosovo exists because of NATO involvement, and they've named streets and erected statues to that end even.
It isn't trendy and I don't get to cosplay like I care about it.
Who's going to recognize the Darfur flag when I put it in my Facebook profile?
Sudan isn't popular because it's difficult to tie either side of the conflict to a specific political party. No one gets too many political points for speaking for/against.
There is oil.
Yeah, but gas prices are currently considered reasonable and tying those to politics is also a bit unfavorable now since everyone blamed the president when they were extra high but then it actually went back down and then no one knew what to do.
Because neither side is America's aIly of course.
I went on tiktok yesterday and noticed a bunch of Gen Z mentioning Sudan and DRC as well as the Gaza Genocide. So that was better than usual.
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Because ignoring genocides is what the world does.
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.
I was a ~12 year old child when the Rwanda genocide was happening and remember hearing about it on the news all the time
Prior to Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022, several conflicts were ongoing globally. Significant among them were:
- Syrian Civil War - A devastating conflict since 2011 involving multiple factions and foreign interventions.
- Yemeni Civil War - Starting in 2014, this war involves the Houthi rebels and the internationally recognized government, with significant Saudi and Iranian involvement.
- Afghanistan Conflict - The long-standing conflict saw a significant shift with the Taliban's return to power in 2021 following the U.S. withdrawal.
- Ethiopian Tigray War - A brutal conflict beginning in 2020 between the Ethiopian government and the Tigray People's Liberation Front.
- Libyan Civil War - A multifaceted conflict ongoing since 2014 between various factions vying for control of the country.
These conflicts have caused significant humanitarian crises and geopolitical tensions, impacting millions of lives.
Although all of these had some kind of coverage in the news, the invasion of Ukraine completely shadowed all of these by a significant margin. Also take note that every single conflict listed above is from non-majority white countries fought by non-majority white combatants.
The genocide in Rwanda of course had some coverage but not remotely is provident as the genocide in Yugoslavia.
I'm not trying to be racial or anything like that. This is just the pattern that we see consistently in stuff like this. Military engagement in predominantly white countries has better coverage than in military engagements and predominantly non-white countries.
Rwanda had no oil.
If you don't accept my freedom, I'm going to force it on you!
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.
What are you talking about?
A wee bit of projection
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.