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check out the dude who the international court issued a warrant for, re: darfur

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virtuoso:

it's not about race, that's the over simpplification spin which the media has put on this, they deliberately turned this into a black and white issue because that is what sound bite news is about. That is not to say there have not always been tensions because that would be a ridiculous statement to make but the media is not interested in trying to educate people about this conflict at all. The reality is, this is about the scarcity of water, the nomads fighting for the fertile land and a power struggle being waged between the government and the rebels. Now again, that is not to say that the government have not orchestrated, mutliple slaughterings of the local inhabitants. However let's not it get twisted, do you folks know how many chechens have been murdered, did you know that half of Chechnya's population has been wiped out, did you know that contrary to the media spin on it, Chechnya is not some islamic hotbed and has been in the main a secular state? The answer to these questions is probably no you didn't and that has nothing to do with you being ignorant, why would you look at something when the information is being disseminated in a way where people think they understand the conflict. What I am trying to say, is there are much worse conflicts than Darfur being waged, what about the tyranny China is waging against it's own people, the Turkish bloodbath of the Kurds? it never gets mentioned and thats due to the fact that the west tries to paint Turkey as some model secular society, not like those evil extreme arabs. When you sift through what the media's hot topic is, most of it is just rhetoric and then a large slicing of it, is not even investigative reporting because they are simply parroting whatever the official government policy/line is on the issue.

*Z* - The Queen of Dubcc:
^^ so true, propz

virtuoso:

props back!

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