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Conflict in the Middle East
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SharonEllis · 02/12/2024 17:01

Dulra · 02/12/2024 16:59

We only care about people if our government sells them arms?

You asked a similar question on a thread yesterday.
Of course people care just the response is different because the UK government do not support the genocide in Sudan so people don't need to protest. Possibly people are happy with the UK government response to the crisis such as:
The new £113 million aid package, which doubles the UK’s aid commitment to Sudan and the region this year, will assist over 600,000 people in Sudan and 700,000 people in neighbouring countries who have fled the conflict, including Chad and South Sudan.

So the only people who can step in and stop a genocide are people selling arms?
Not sure where you picked up that idea. They are the very people who are indirectly supporting the genocide and if your government is selling arms to a country that is carrying out a genocide I can understand why people would be pretty exercised in protesting against that.

And if there is an arms embargo because of human rights abuses then tbe only people who have authority in the conflict are the people selling the arms being used in the genocide?
You'll have to explain that one to me. Surely an arms embargo is one of many options governments have.

Think....

Dulra · 02/12/2024 17:11

SharonEllis · 02/12/2024 17:01

Think....

No the sentence makes no sense to me so I'm not going to waste my time trying to figure it out.

User37482 · 02/12/2024 17:14

I don’t think it’s that the government aren’t supporting this. I think it’s because a) most of us don’t know much about Sudan and b) atrocities are taking place willy nilly. Having said that whatever side the Janjaweed are on I’m definitely on the other. I remember a story about how government forces confiscated arms form a village and the Janjaweed were sent in the next day to just slaughter everyone. This was from a different civil war.

I also think people just don’t care when African people kill African people (I acknowledge that many identify as arabs but from western eyes thats what it probably looks like). Much like when arabs slaughter arabs, no-one protests much about that either. If theres a imperialist/colonialist bent then people take more interest but people struggle to see imperialist ambitions on the part of russia/china/iran probably because they perceive these things to be uniquely European diseases.

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