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Aid workers fear a new disaster as militia forces close in on a major Darfur city.

On a sunny April afternoon in 2006, thousands of people flocked to the National Mall in Washington, D.C., for a rally with celebrities, Olympic athletes, and rising political stars. Their cause: garner international support to halt a genocide in Sudan’s Darfur region.

“If we care, the world will care. If we act, then the world will follow,” Barack Obama, then the junior Illinois senator, told the crowd, speaking alongside future House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. That same week, then-Sen. Joe Biden introduced a bill in Congress calling on NATO to intervene to halt the genocide in Sudan. “We need to take action on both a military and diplomatic front to end the conflict,” he said.

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[-] anticolonialist@lemmy.world 14 points 5 months ago

Pulls out Peter Griffin skin tone threat chart

[-] mlg@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

tbf they didn't care about the bosnian genocide either

They should update that meme with a list of money sources

[-] anticolonialist@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

Same issue as now, a democrat was involved so it was ok to ignore.

[-] assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Could you elaborate? This was the only conflict I think where NATO took action outside of Article 5. The Democrat president in question here supported attacking the people committing genocide, so I'm not sure what your point is.

[-] assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

I mean, who is "they" in this case? NATO took an offensive action, potentially their only one in history, to disarm the Serbs and stop the genocidal side. It certainly wasn't ignored. Kosovo exists because of NATO involvement, and they've named streets and erected statues to that end even.

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