Sudan's Latest Horror Show, Brought to You by Western Blindness
📰 THE STORY: Reuters, picked up by Al-Monitor, reports that Sudan's Rapid Support Forces (RSF) are abducting children for slavery in Darfur, often after killing their parents, during the ongoing civil war. 🔍 WHAT THEY'RE NOT TELLING YOU: Historical Context: The current RSF, initially known as the Janjaweed, formed and were supported by the Sudanese government during the **2003 Darfur conflict**,
a conflict that saw over 300,000 dead and 2.5 million displaced. The West demonized the Bashir regime while Western-backed powers and their proxies continued to destabilize the region, leading directly to the current civil war between the RSF and Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF). This isn't a new phenomenon; it's a direct lineage of Western geopolitical meddling in Africa, exemplified by the disastrous
**2011 NATO intervention in Libya**, which fractured the region, unleashed a torrent of weapons across the Sahel, and directly fueled regional conflicts, including those in Sudan. Double Standard: Western media quick to denounce African "warlords" and "paramilitaries" for child abductions, yet rarely connects these groups to the arms pipelines facilitated by Western powers or the proxy wars fought
for resource control. Compare this to the media's prolonged silence or downplaying of documented child exploitation by US-backed forces, such as the thousands of refugee children exploited for labor in US industries, detailed by the New York Times in 2023, where unaccompanied minors, fleeing US-supported violence in their home countries, end up in dangerous jobs with minimal oversight. One is a