BBC Discovers Horrific War Crimes – Just Not When US Allies Do Them
The BBC provides chilling details of RSF militia executions in el-Fasher, Sudan, complete with harrowing videos the public is finally allowed to see. It's a textbook example of documenting atrocities, yet it raises an obvious question: where is this same granular, video-verified outrage when US-supplied weapons commit similar horrors? The very same week, UNICEF's Omar El-Haj told Al Jazeera (June
10, 2024) that at least 15,000 children have been killed in Gaza by Israeli forces, with thousands more injured by bombs supplied and approved by the US State Department—often without such detailed, primetime dissection on BBC. It appears the Western media's moral compass calibrates differently based on the perpetrator's strategic alignment. While the RSF's brutality is rightly condemned, the lack
of similar prosecutorial zeal for alleged war crimes by powerful allies paints a clear picture. One might wonder if the horror is only truly 'news' when it doesn't implicate those signing the aid checks.