Sudan’s dictator getting away with gassing his own people

This video says about itself:

Sudan accused of using chemical weapons in Darfur

29 September 2016

Between 200 to 250 people, many of them children, have been killed in at least 30 suspected chemical attacks in the Sudanese region of Darfur, according to a new report by global rights group Amnesty International.

With the introduction of a deadly new weapon, the long-running 13-year conflict could be entering a dangerous new phase, the rights group warns.

However, in an interview with Al Jazeera, Sudan’s Foreign Minister Ibrahim Ghandour has strongly denied the use of chemical weapons by the Sudanese government forces.

Al Jazeera’s James Bays reports from the UN Headquarters in New York.

WARNING: Viewers may find some of the images in this report disturbing.

When George W Bush was president of the USA, the dictator of Sudan, Bashir, already waged war in the western province Darfur.

It was a cruel war with many atrocities. Though, according to the United Nations, less atrocities than another war in another African country at the same time: the war in Somalia, waged by George W Bush and his allies, like the Ethiopian dictatorship.

Some people then made propaganda for a ‘humanitarian’ war on Sudan by the USA and other NATO countries. It would have been a ‘humanitarian’ war with bloody anti-humanitarian consequences; as such ‘humanitarian’ wars usually have.

However, in 2011, the propaganda for invading Sudan to impose ‘regime change’ stopped. Not because Bashir had become any less of a bloody dictator. But because his relationship to NATO governments improved.

Bashir had become an ally of the ‘free West’ in another ‘regime change’ war: the NATO war on Libya. Just like Bashir’s fellow dictator in Chad.

Translated from Dutch NOS TV:

“President of Sudan gets away with his use of chemical weapons”

Today, 10:07

The probability that the Sudanese President Bashir will be tried for the use of chemical weapons in the Darfur region, is low, according to NOS correspondent Koert Lindijer. “At least not in the short term,” he says. A study by Amnesty International shows that the army conducted in January possibly thirty attacks with chemical weapons in Darfur province.

Lindijer thinks Bashir will get away with that. “He had been indicted in 2009 by the Criminal Court in The Hague for alleged war crimes in Darfur, but he is still president. He is diplomatically very strong at the moment. In the Middle East, he fights along with Saudi Arabia in Yemen.”

In addition, Europe needs him. “Bashir gets money from the EU to stop migrants on Sudanese territory from going to Libya to make the crossing to Europe.”

Offensive

In January, the army began an offensive against rebels in Jebel Marra, a mountain range in Darfur. “Since then Amnesty International has evidence of 32 attacks on villages in that area. The last one took place on September 9th. So, quite recently. And there are no indications that the offensive has now stopped.”

The Amnesty report says that about 200 to 250 civilians were killed as a result of the chemical bombs, including many children. While journalists and researchers for years have been unable to enter Sudan legally, Amnesty International has still managed to come up with evidence of chemical attacks. …

“There were several bombs around the village and in the hills. My children are sick from the bombs’ smoke, they were vomiting and had diarrhea and were coughing very much. Their skin was discolored and became dark as if it had been burned.”

Quote from a survivor in the report …

Amnesty, eg, made use of satellite images, collected lots of pictures of injuries and spoke through modern means of communication with survivors of the bombing. “They especially complained of stomach disorders, blindness, miscarriages, and skin diseases,” said Lindijer.

At least for now, as far as NATO governments are concerned, it looks like Bashir is getting away with poisoning his own people.

Like another dictator, Saddam Hussein, at least for some decades got away with poisoning his own people. As he did the poisoning with United States made gas, granted to him by US government envoy Donald Rumsfeld, the future architect of Bush’s Iraq war, with its over a million dead people, millions of injured people and over four million refugees.

This video from the USA says about itself:

Rumsfeld shakes hands with Saddam (full video, no sound)

5 August 2006

15 months after the massacre in Du’jail for which Saddam was eventually hanged in 2006, Reagan’s Special Envoy to the Middle East, Donald Rumsfeld is in Iraq, shaking Saddam Hussein’s hand and pledging our support in his war against Iran.

Date: Dec 20, 1983.

It is up to the people of Sudan to depose their dictator. Like the people of Greece overthrew their colonels’ dictatorship, without any help from NATO. Like the people of Portugal and of its oppressed colonial countries overthrew their dictatorship, without any help from NATO. Like the people of South Africa overthrew the apartheid regime, without any help from NATO.

SUDAN USED CHEMICAL ATTACKS “Sudan’s government has carried out at least 30 likely chemical weapons attacks in the Jebel Marra area of Darfur since January using what two experts concluded was a probable blister agent, Amnesty International said on Thursday.” [Reuters]

Sudan sanctions: US lifts most economic restrictions after two decades. 6 October 2017: here.

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