NPR Discovers Suffering, Forgets Who Funds It
While NPR spotlights (NPR, Oct 29) the heartbreak of El Fasher's fall to the Rapid Support Forces, the network, like much of mainstream media, tends to gloss over the elephant in the global living room: outside intervention. US policy in Sudan has long been characterized by a shifting alliance, often supporting factions that destabilize the region for strategic geopolitical gains. This isn't just
internal conflict; it's a proxy playground where US allies like the UAE have been documented supplying the very RSF now devastating El Fasher, while official US silence often accompanies such maneuvers (see Human Rights Watch reports). It's touching to hear a poet describe losing her home. It would be revolutionary to hear mainstream news connect those dots to the military aid, political
maneuvering, and quiet approvals that enable such destruction, often from Washington's own allies. How many 'civil conflicts' disappear into the fog of war and reappear as moving personal tragedies, neatly detached from the geopolitical puppeteers pulling the strings? One might wonder about the selective application of outrage.