{"id":263,"date":"2004-06-14T13:13:03","date_gmt":"2004-06-14T17:13:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vmalt\/?p=263"},"modified":"2006-03-26T09:54:31","modified_gmt":"2006-03-26T14:54:31","slug":"by-any-other-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/by-any-other-name","title":{"rendered":"By any other name"},"content":{"rendered":"

Marc Lacey at the Times interviewed Colin Powell<\/a> about Sudan recently. Here’s a snippet:<\/p>\n

MR. LACEY: Okay. Now, some have used the term “ethnic cleansing” to describe this situation and others outside of the government are even using the term “genocide.” Now, the Government of Sudan calls these terms inflammatory, inaccurate. What’s the right term here? Is this ethnic cleansing? Does this reach the level of genocide?<\/p>\n

SECRETARY POWELL: You know, these turn out to be almost legal matters of definition and I’m not prepared to say what is the correct legal term for what’s happening. All I know is that there are at least a million people who are desperately in need, and many of them will die if we can’t get the international community mobilized and if we can’t get the Sudanese to cooperate with the international community. And it won’t make a whole lot of difference after the fact what you’ve called it.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Marc Lacey at the Times interviewed Colin Powell about Sudan recently. Here’s a snippet: MR. LACEY: Okay. Now, some have used the term “ethnic cleansing” to describe this situation and others outside of the government are even using the term “genocide.” Now, the Government of Sudan calls these terms inflammatory, inaccurate. What’s the right term … <\/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":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/sudan"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":241,"url":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/do-something","url_meta":{"origin":263,"position":1},"title":"Do something","author":"Gil","date":"May 4, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Arab nomads on horseback have been committing genocide in western Sudan. I've been reading and hearing about it for a while. Just yesterday, I forwarded a link from Bookslut about the UNICEF efforts of Irvine Welsh (author of Trainspotting) to raise awareness in Britain about what's going on in Darfur\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Sudan"","block_context":{"text":"Sudan","link":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/sudan"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":265,"url":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/and-boy-are-my-arms-tired","url_meta":{"origin":263,"position":2},"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":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/sudan"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":332,"url":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/sudan-update","url_meta":{"origin":263,"position":3},"title":"Sudan Update","author":"Gil","date":"August 6, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"I haven't written much about the genocide in Sudan lately, except for a brief rant during my Budapest dispatches. Partly that's because there's been so much (belated) coverage by the world media. Also, it's because Passion of the Present has been doing such a great job of coverage. 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And here's an article from the Financial Times calling for EU action to stop the genocide:The Security Council should in addition authorise all measures short of force to be used against Sudan and warn Khartoum of international military intervention if it does\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Sudan"","block_context":{"text":"Sudan","link":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/sudan"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":230,"url":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/sudan-crisis","url_meta":{"origin":263,"position":5},"title":"Sudan Crisis","author":"Gil","date":"May 17, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Doc Rampage is as pissed off as I am about both the genocide taking place in Sudan and the American media's lack of interest in covering it.Here are some more stories about what's happening there:PBSTelegraphBBCAgain, if you have good ideas about what we can do (and that don't involve sending\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Sudan"","block_context":{"text":"Sudan","link":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/sudan"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}