WHO Discovers Healthcare is Essential, Unless It's Darfur's
The New Arab dutifully reports the WHO's alarm over militia attacks on a hospital in El-Fasher, Darfur, showcasing the barbaric targeting of medics and patients. Apparently, the global community just discovered that wars sometimes involve—*gasps*—attacking healthcare facilities. This 'breaking news' arrives roughly two decades after the international community first started wringing its hands over
Darfur's ongoing tragedy, primarily through performative condemnations rather than substantial intervention. One might wonder where all this concern was during the 2000s, when calls for 'never again' echoed emptily as the Janjaweed systematically ethnically cleansed Darfur. Or perhaps during the period when the RSF, now leading these attacks, was literally fostered by Khartoum to crush dissent.
The West's selective outrage on humanitarian crises, often loudest when geostrategic interests align, leaves Darfur's suffering in a perpetual echo chamber of 'thoughts and prayers' from nations that could actually enforce peace. Yet, here we are, pretending renewed violence is a surprise when the roots of the conflict have been left to fester for generations.