Posted on 03/04/2009 6:16:31 AM PST by Red in Blue PA
(CNN) -- I wanted to believe the man in front of me wasn't a rapist. I knew he was a former Sudanese soldier, I knew he wanted to talk about rape in Darfur. A humanitarian group working on Darfur issues had introduced him to us. They told us his testimony was important to hear.
Last year in Darfur aid workers told me children as young as five were being raped in the huge displacement camps that are home to several million Darfuris. In some camps, they told me, rape had become so common that as many as 20 babies a month born from rape were being abandoned.
As I sat inches from Adam --not his real name -- I feared the revulsion I knew I would feel at my own questions as I asked about rape and his involvement. I have interviewed rape survivors in Darfur. I have two daughters. I am a human being with a conscience. It would be hard to listen to his replies.
He told me he was conscripted by force in to the Sudanese army in the summer of 2002. He thought he was being taken for six months' national service and then would be released. The conversation was slow going at first. We were both holding off from delving into the sordid details he'd come to discuss. His answers were short, he told me he got no pay from the army, only food and drink.
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If the news media really cared about this sort of thing, they might try to identify which group is doing the raping. But the media isn’t comfortable with that level of detail. Details about the raping of children? Oh, sure. The people need to know that stuff! The role that Muslims play in this tragedy? Well, maybe it’s better if that is left unsaid. Pigs.
CNN isn’t credible, and it wouldn’t be the first time a story like this was a total lie.
The government of Sudan has a vote at the U.N.
Do you know what is going on in Sudan? CNN is just catching up to what the Sudanese have known for over a decade now.
It's like being told to make love to Helen Thomas, how do you stay "motivated"?
This clown was down with it, torture then kill the SOB.
Excellent sentiments, Doc.
These folks need Obummer a hell of a lot more than the US does.
That was the first thing I thought, too. CNN never discusses exactly what this is all about.
Personally, I think this is a warm-up because Bambi is probably going to try to send troops to Darfur.
This isn’t a new story.
CNN is so far behind the story it would be laughable if not so horrific.
Many sources for the genocide, rape and massive displacement.
As it is, CNN still doesn’t get to the guts of the story as to WHO is doing this and WHAT motivates them.
I thought that only American soldiers killed/raped children.
Anyway, that’s what Murtha, Kerry and all the rest say!
CNN weepingly tells us that the rapists were “only following orders”.
Ah, the poor souls. Muslims can’t be expected to be moral beings after all. And so on, and so on, a stream of relativist bigotry from the master of lies.
This man is a rapist, perhaps a child rapist, and a member of a religion that doesn’t recognize either of those as crimes. At the very least he should be in jail, not be getting a puff piece.
Why don’t more people have that kind of moral clarity?
I don’t really understand this.
You have an Islamic government in the Sudan.
Who are the Muslims raping and killing? Other Muslims? What about the Christian Sudanese?
Can ANYBODY clearly explain who is terrorizing who over there and why?
This is really just one commentary, regardless of the identity of the victims, on the brutality and viciousness of Islam in general.
Poor guy! Forced to rape! He’s a victim!
Yeah, he’s a victim of toxic Muslim leaders.
“Making love to Helen Thomas...” Please...this is still early morning. You know, breakfast and all that.
The Muslim government is forcing it’s soldiers to rape, kill and brutalize the Christian communities in Southern Sudan. Darfur is the main area that the culturally Christian Sudanese live and where this religi-cide is taking place.
My understanding is that the Sudanese government clandestinely supports an Arab group which is doing most of the violence. There is a Liberation group which is fighting a defensive war against them. This Liberation group is multi-ethnic and basically secular, although it does contain some Christians.
I originally thought the victims were Christian Sudanese and that later the government expanded it to include black Muslims as the government was run by Arab Muslims.
So then the main vicitms here are still Christian Sudanese?
Why aren’t we doing anything about it? I am so sick and tired of these damn Muslims acting like savages, while we continue to portray them in America and the West as just another brand of religion.
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