{"id":440,"date":"2005-01-31T09:14:20","date_gmt":"2005-01-31T14:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vmalt\/?p=440"},"modified":"2005-12-06T07:36:59","modified_gmt":"2005-12-06T12:36:59","slug":"is-it-genocide-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/is-it-genocide-yet","title":{"rendered":"Is it genocide yet?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nope, not yet. Just ask the UN<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Oh, wait: my bad! That link<\/span> was about how Kofi Annan’s son was actually involved in negotiating a deal to sell 2 million barrels of oil in the UN’s oil-for-food scam.<\/p>\n

HERE’S the link<\/a> about how the UN has determined that there’s no genocide occurring in Darfur. I lose track of this stuff sometimes. Sorry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nope, not yet. Just ask the UN. Oh, wait: my bad! That link was about how Kofi Annan’s son was actually involved in negotiating a deal to sell 2 million barrels of oil in the UN’s oil-for-food scam. HERE’S the link about how the UN has determined that there’s no genocide occurring in Darfur. I … <\/p>\n

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He wrote back this weekend (see below). There've been some developments, but no serious results yet. Several Congressmen are calling for the U.S. to label this a genocide, which would automatically trigger intervention by a\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":590,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/more-intervention","url_meta":{"origin":440,"position":1},"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. 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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":339,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/darfur","url_meta":{"origin":440,"position":4},"title":"Darfur","author":"Gil","date":"September 27, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Skip ahead if you're sick of reading about the genocide in Darfur. Samantha Power wrote a great piece in The New Yorker a few weeks ago about Darfur. Here it is. I didn't link to it earlier because I couldn't find any sort of searchable archives at the magazine's site.\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":274,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/sudan-again","url_meta":{"origin":440,"position":5},"title":"Sudan Again","author":"Gil","date":"June 2, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Added a Sudan crisis link to the blogroll. 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