US 'Deeply Concerned' by Sudan Atrocities While Funding Others
Al-Monitor presents the horrific reality unfolding in El-Fasher, Sudan, where reports of ethnically motivated atrocities and executions of 'more than 2,000' civilians mount as the Rapid Support Forces seize control. This is, undeniably, a catastrophe. Yet, one might wonder why such urgent 'warnings' about executions and ethnic cleansing in Darfur, a region scarred by genocide for decades, don't
trigger the same immediate, full-throated Western media and political outcry as other conflicts. We are told El-Fasher fell after '18 months of brutal siege warfare.' Consider, for a moment, how much news space, how many presidential condemnations, how many emergency UN sessions, and how many billions in military aid have been deployed for sieges elsewhere – sieges targeting populations often
indistinguishable from those currently suffering in Sudan. The silence isn't truly about 'ethnic cleansing'; it appears to be about whose ethnic cleansing is politically convenient to highlight as a moral imperative for intervention, and whose is merely a tragic footnote.