Okay, so as you can see I've been pretty riled up about Darfur, and have been searching the Internet for some more positive news about any action being taken to stop this Genocide. As you may, or may not know, the killings in Darfur have been declared "Genocide" by President Obama, It was this missing declaration which delayed action in Rwanda. Under the Geneva Convention in 1948, by law Nations must intervene when Genocide is decided...
"The Genocide law of 1948 states that...any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group,, as such:
(a) Killing members of the group;
(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, Article 2[3]" Wikipedia
Okay, so armed with that declaration, then you might think that the International community would take arms and stop the slaughter...right? WRONG!!!! Why?...well all you have to do is turn over your dishware, check the tag on the back of your shirt, or look at the bottom of the glass you're sipping from....Yup!
This Genocide is made in China
China of course! China is a super power now in the Global market, and this "power" carries a lot of weight with those powers that are in their back pocket...China practically owns The United States of America...apart from all the exporting and importing; the many North American businesses that they either own outright or at least control, then there's the debt! If China were to call in their loans the U.S. would be bankrupt.
It makes sense that the U.S. doesn't want to "rock the junk". So when the cat's out of the bag about Genocide in Darfur, that the mass killing of Black Africans by militia groups is being paid off by the Arab government...then all the great nations gather to decide what comes next, and we need a unanimous commitment...shouldn't be too hard right? Not! China's got a great deal going with Khartoum...and they get all their oil from them. On the side, China also supplies them with weapons to help the Sudanese miltia that are killing those darn Black Africans who want their share of the wealth that the rest of the country is enjoying. But they are just "Black Africans" and the Arabian led government wants them out of the way, so China is helping them do it. Therefore the UN is likely not going to get a vote to intervene from China!!! So much for democracy!!
So far, the only thing that has happened to help the Black Africans in Darfur is that some individuals who have participated in the killings are being arrested and tried in the Hague, the International Criminal Court... Meanwhile the genocide continues.
"The International Criminal Court (French: Cour Pénale Internationale; commonly referred to as the ICC or ICCt)[1] is a permanent tribunal to prosecute individuals for genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and the crime of aggression (although it cannot currently exercise jurisdiction over the crime of aggression).[2][3]" Wikipedia
When I found this video of George Clooney, I couldn't find a single comment to reflect acknowledgement that anyone had even read it!!! What does it take?
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