Aid workers fear a new disaster as militia forces close in on a major Darfur city.

On a sunny April afternoon in 2006, thousands of people flocked to the National Mall in Washington, D.C., for a rally with celebrities, Olympic athletes, and rising political stars. Their cause: garner international support to halt a genocide in Sudan’s Darfur region.

“If we care, the world will care. If we act, then the world will follow,” Barack Obama, then the junior Illinois senator, told the crowd, speaking alongside future House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. That same week, then-Sen. Joe Biden introduced a bill in Congress calling on NATO to intervene to halt the genocide in Sudan. “We need to take action on both a military and diplomatic front to end the conflict,” he said.

  • Frog@lemmy.caEnglish
    45·
    5 months ago

    The United Nations has been reporting the famine and war crimes in Sudan for decades.

    • AdamEatsAss@lemmy.worldEnglish
      201·
      5 months ago

      I hate to say it but it’s been going on for too long, most people don’t care anymore. New conflicts have taken the spotlight.

      • livus@kbin.social
        18·
        5 months ago

        Doesn’t really explain it, I mean the underlying Palestine/Israel thing has been going on for decades too.

        The current Sudanese Civil War has only been going on for 6 months longer than the current Israel vs Gaza hostilities.

        • undergroundoverground@lemmy.worldEnglish
          61·
          5 months ago

          Thats an easy one, America isn’t openly funding the side committing genocide and threatening to liberate anyone who doesn’t like what they do back into the stone age, in Sudan.

          Its really not hard to see, if you’re prepared to see it.

          • livus@kbin.social
            2·
            5 months ago

            Definitely. The US isn’t likely to like either side given one of them is tight with Iran and the other one has dealings with Russian mercenaries.

          • livus@kbin.social
            1·
            5 months ago

            No one here has been hearing about it in the news for hundreds of years tho (unless some of you are undead/vampires).

            Arguably the roots of the Sudan conflict go back to the 1300s.

            But in both cases the modern nation-state conflicts kicked off after the colonization of the 19th centuries, and in both cases most of us have been aware of it for decades.