Is there more than one hidden agenda?
The World is growing restless as the events in Sudan grow worse by the day. Darfur is a region in Africa's largest country and it is controlled mainly, some say, by the JanJaweed. The Sudanese government pretends to control the Janjaweed but many say they are in collusion--and that they are determined to rid Sudan of mainly black Sudanese. It appears to be a racial conflict leading up to genocidal tendencies. I would say that genocide is happening as I write, and that it may be too late to save the people of Darfur.
I use the words "some say" and "many say" because the politics of this large country is complex and rife with speculation about who is to blame and who rules. Furthermore, there are hidden agendas around every corner . I'm going to speculate and suggest that President Omar Hasan Ahmed al-Bashir is one of the most conniving scorpions in the desert. Here is a man who, like many African leaders before him, went to the UN and nodded his head and promised solutions. He went home and decided that no country was going to "invade" his state. I'm going to suggest that he, hiding behind an "invasion of our sovereignty" excuse has hidden agendas we can't know about. But, I'll try to to pin down some of the reasons:
* Why is he hijacking UN trucks and distributing the food to the army and the Janjaweed? Don't say it's not him. He's controlling it all.
* Why is he frightened of UN intervention? Not because of his precious "sovereignty" but because he is a war criminal . He's going to make Rwanda look like a picnic before he's finished.
* Why is the Middle East so silent about this massive humanitarian tragedy?
* Is there a hidden, hidden agenda? Do the Jihadists want to embroil the US in another war, thus weakening their reserves?
* Or, tongue in cheek, does the Sudan government think it can solve its own problems? Who is advising the great al-Bashir on this?
* The President is an out and out racist.
Ten years from now, if this situation can be resolved, the Sudanese President will be in the Hague for war crimes. Note this in your diary.