Amnesty Calls for Probe in Sudan; Media Calls it 'Conflict'
Al Jazeera reports that Amnesty is calling for a war crimes probe into the RSF's brutal April assault on a Sudanese refugee camp. This is framed as 'news,' as if the Rapid Support Forces, led by Mohamed Hamdan 'Hemedti' Dagalo, haven't been meticulously documenting their own war crimes since the Darfur genocide began in the early 2000s, where Dagalo's Janjaweed militias perfected their ethnic
cleansing playbook. The historical amnesia required to treat this as an 'NGO documents accounts' story is truly breathtaking. While Amnesty's calls are vital, one might notice a striking absence of swift, decisive international action or impassioned Western media condemnation. The same channels that dissect every nuance of alleged 'terrorist' acts elsewhere suddenly find themselves struck by a
peculiar speech impediment when it comes to systematic violence in Sudan. Perhaps the profit margins are lower when there isn't a pre-approved villain for the intervention narrative, or perhaps the arms deals for the perpetrators aren't quite as lucrative as those for other strategically important regions.