{"id":348,"date":"2004-09-21T08:06:35","date_gmt":"2004-09-21T12:06:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vmalt\/?p=348"},"modified":"2007-09-07T05:07:44","modified_gmt":"2007-09-07T10:07:44","slug":"au-report-from-darfur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/au-report-from-darfur","title":{"rendered":"AU report from Darfur"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s a poor choice of words, but here’s a harrowing report<\/a> from the commander of the South African contingent of the African Union’s monitors in Darfur:<\/p>\n

Colonel Barry Steyn […] says he counts bodies of Sudan army and Janjaweed victims each week and sends classified reports to Addis Ababa. Describing maggot-infested decomposing skulls, he says: “You believe there\u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bds an inherent goodness in people, but you see some of these villages and it shakes that belief. You look at this stuff and it makes you turn dead white.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There’s more (like the Russian explanation of why they not only abstained from the UN Security Council resolution last night, but also how they hope to sell more weapons to the Sudan government) at Passion of the Present<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s a poor choice of words, but here’s a harrowing report from the commander of the South African contingent of the African Union’s monitors in Darfur: Colonel Barry Steyn […] says he counts bodies of Sudan army and Janjaweed victims each week and sends classified reports to Addis Ababa. Describing maggot-infested decomposing skulls, he says: … <\/p>\n

Continue reading “AU report from Darfur”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sudan","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-5C","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":583,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/more-sudan","url_meta":{"origin":348,"position":0},"title":"More Sudan","author":"Gil","date":"July 26, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Nicholas Kristof of the NYTimes is insanely pissed off at the media for ignoring the genocide in Darfur:When I've asked television correspondents about this lapse, they've noted that visas to Sudan are difficult to get and that reporting in Darfur is expensive and dangerous. True, but TV crews could at\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Sudan"","block_context":{"text":"Sudan","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/sudan"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":265,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/and-boy-are-my-arms-tired","url_meta":{"origin":348,"position":1},"title":"And, boy, are my arms tired!","author":"Gil","date":"June 14, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm back from California. I'll ramble extensively about it tonight. Until then, here's an e-mail response I received from Senator Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ), regarding the Sudan query I sent him last month:Dear Gil:Thank you for expressing your concerns about Sudan.I appreciate your concerns regarding the civil war ongoing in Sudan,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Sudan"","block_context":{"text":"Sudan","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/sudan"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":939,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/clooless","url_meta":{"origin":348,"position":2},"title":"Clooless","author":"Gil","date":"May 3, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"I think Nina Shea gives George Clooney a little too much, um, credibility in this essay about his cluelessness re:Darfur, but I'm with her on the idea that maybe it's not Bush's fault. I've been pretty quiet about Darfur lately, mainly because I'm beaten down by the idea that it's\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Sudan"","block_context":{"text":"Sudan","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/sudan"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":355,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm","url_meta":{"origin":348,"position":3},"title":"DoubtsAccording to a magazine called\u2026","author":"Gil","date":"September 16, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"DoubtsAccording to a magazine called Expatica (for American expatriots living in Europe), German intel denies Die Welt's story about Syria testing chemical weapons in Darfur:German intelligence sources said Wednesday they had no information which could confirm a report claiming Syria had tested chemical weapons in cooperation with the government of\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":590,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/more-intervention","url_meta":{"origin":348,"position":4},"title":"MORE intervention?","author":"Gil","date":"July 20, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Looks like the U.S. hegemon is forcing its way into ANOTHER Muslim country! No blood for oil! Regime change begins at home! Visualize whirled peas!Oh, wait. It's a story about how the Air Force is helping bring Rwandan AU troops into Darfur to help stop the genocide being conducted there\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Sudan"","block_context":{"text":"Sudan","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/sudan"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":294,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/no-genocide-for-oil-you-french-motherfers","url_meta":{"origin":348,"position":5},"title":"No Genocide for Oil, you French Motherf***ers!","author":"Gil","date":"July 12, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Back in May, I wrote my Representative about the Congressional resolution on the Sudanese genocide. He wrote back this weekend (see below). There've been some developments, but no serious results yet. 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