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Pomak
Yeah when white non slavic people are brought before it, then i'll believe it.
you have a point, could anyone seriously see bush being brought to trial? anyone doubt he should be?
the problems in dafur are a little complicated, but this is how it was explained to me from a brother whose wife is from there...
you have 'african' tribes who are farming the land, and 'arab' tribes who are semi nomadic herdsman, the inverted commas are because both words have no meaning as both are black and both sets of tribes will speak arabic and the local dialects.
but the arab nationalist government, believing in all this nationalistic crap that is totally against islam gives special privilages to arabs and the africans get less, which is an injustice.
this situation was further complicated by a huge brought that has forced more competition for the land and a fight between 'african' farmers and 'arab' nomads as the nomads to save their herds are forcing them into land they previously never used and so threatening the farming tribes food supplies.
the arab tribes therefore organised various uprisings and fighting back to get their land and work against the racist policies of the government, some in risen in the name of islam, others in the name of african nationalism. this being as dumb as arab nationalism but this is their land after all, da-fur, fur being the main local tribe and da meaning place so literally place of the fur tribe.
the government feeling itself now under threat from these rebels and being racists in the first place, sides with the 'arab' tribesmen and start aiding them.
and finally another big complication... potential massive mineral reserves under dafur including enough uranium to keep the wests nuclear power plants running for several more decades.