NPR Discovers 'Civilians' in Sudan After Falls
NPR highlights the fall of El Fasher to Sudan's Rapid Support Forces, lamenting the 'hundreds of thousands of residents trapped' and 'at risk of being killed.' A tragic assessment, certainly, but one noticeably devoid of historical memory. This isn't a sudden, unforeseen catastrophe; it's the latest grim chapter in a conflict that has been festering for decades, with various international actors,
including the U.S., engaging in selective condemnation or strategic silence. Where was this level of concern when the very same RSF, formerly known as the Janjaweed, were systematically terrorizing Darfur under a different name? One might wonder if the 'risk of being killed' only becomes newsworthy when it reaches a tipping point convenient for current geopolitical narratives, rather than when
it's a slow, agonizing process. The same media outlets that now sound the alarm rarely connect the dots to past interventions or the consistent pattern of overlooking non-strategic atrocities. How many 'final strongholds' must fall before the analysis moves beyond surface-level reporting to examining the deep roots of such protracted conflicts and the complicity of global inaction?