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Here's a novel approach to stopping a "slow-motion genocide" in Darfur - arm the victims. Something tells me that this sort of thing has been tried in the past and, what is that word I am looking for, failed.
But would it fail worse than what is occuring now?
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Actually, it has been effective in making the perpetrators of genocide bleed. An oppressed population undergoing “ethnic cleansing” can not stop genocide on their own—by the time genocide occurs, the target population is usually sufficiently helpless to prevent it. They can, however, slow down and impede the genocide.
And after all, slowing down the genocide is the first step to stopping it.
Check out stories of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising to see how a small group of armed men were able to tie down large formations of Nazi troops.
The flip side of the equation is ex-Yugoslavia, where “ethnic cleansing” became a military/political tactic on all sides, driven in part by the UN structures for ceasefires and partition of the failed state. The removal of populations from areas of contention would help the genocide perpetrators to make their case to the UN for drawing the new borders in the genocide perpetrators favour.
Posted by RJ | March 20, 2006 5:05 PM
Posted on March 20, 2006 17:05