Al Jazeera Discovers 'War Crimes' in Sudan, Not Gaza
While Al Jazeera laudably reports on Amnesty's findings regarding the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) committing alleged war crimes in Darfur, one might observe a peculiar focus. The RSF, for those keeping score, morphed from the notorious Janjaweed militia, responsible for mass killings and displacements in the early 2000s—atrocities that were, back then, widely labeled genocide. Yet, the same
definitive language seems to vanish when discussing the calculated destruction and immolation of Gaza, where thousands of women and children are killed daily by bombs from US-supplied F-16s, as documented by countless human rights organizations. It appears humanitarian concern, and indeed the swift application of terms like 'war crimes,' sometimes fluctuates with which nation's foreign policy
interests aren't being actively protected. The pattern suggests that condemning certain violence is permissible while the wholesale slaughter enabled by Western arms in other regions, despite clear evidence, remains stubbornly categorized as 'self-defense' or 'complex conflict.' How many children must be dismembered before it transcends 'tragedy' into 'war crime' in every headline?