{"id":274,"date":"2004-06-02T07:32:58","date_gmt":"2004-06-02T11:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vmalt\/?p=274"},"modified":"2006-01-14T09:40:39","modified_gmt":"2006-01-14T14:40:39","slug":"sudan-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/sudan-again","title":{"rendered":"Sudan Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Added a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.passionofthepresent.com\" target=\"_blank\">Sudan crisis link<\/a> to the blogroll. And here&#8217;s an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.williamshawcross.com\/darfur.html\" target=\"_blank\">article<\/a> from the Financial Times calling for EU action to stop the genocide:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>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 not alter its course. Only such an ultimatum will demonstrate that the international community means it when it says &#8220;never again&#8221; &#8212; that we are not going to stand by as another mass slaughter of innocents unfolds before our eyes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Added a Sudan crisis link to the blogroll. And here&#8217;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 not alter its course. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/sudan-again\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sudan Again&#8221;<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sudan"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-4q","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":294,"url":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/no-genocide-for-oil-you-french-motherfers","url_meta":{"origin":274,"position":0},"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. Several Congressmen are calling for the U.S. to label this a genocide, which would automatically trigger intervention by a\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Sudan&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Sudan","link":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/sudan"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":263,"url":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/by-any-other-name","url_meta":{"origin":274,"position":1},"title":"By any other name","author":"Gil","date":"June 14, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"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.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Politics (explicit)&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Politics (explicit)","link":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/politics-explicit"},"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":274,"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 &quot;Sudan&quot;","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":274,"position":3},"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 &quot;Sudan&quot;","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":274,"position":4},"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. I sorta\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Politics (explicit)&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Politics (explicit)","link":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/politics-explicit"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":583,"url":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/more-sudan","url_meta":{"origin":274,"position":5},"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 &quot;Sudan&quot;","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\/274","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=274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}