Today while going through my email I found a shocking article posted to a Darfur related listserv that I am on. The article was titled "U.S. special envoy to skip El-Fasher’s international meeting on Darfur."
General Scott Gration has proven to be a toothless dog and is quickly losing the respect of not just the international community but the Sudanese people as well. The article also notes that China and Russia will be represented at this meeting which in and of itself is not surprising seeing their business arrangements with the genocidal regime in Sudan and its leader, Omar al-Bashir. You see China is buying Sudanese oil, Sudan then turns around and uses that money to buy weapons from Russia so they can continue their campaign in the Darfur region while preparing for the inevitable breakdown of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement and the return to war with the oil rich South Sudan.
In a recent Newsweek article by Ravi Somaiya (What Happened to Darfur?) it is noted that in the Darfur region 600 people died violently in May and fighting is at a new height. That is 20 people a day for 31 days and yet Darfur isn't a blimp on our radar. Matter of fact it is so much an after thought to us that General Scott Gration, the President's appointed envoy to Sudan, decided to play hooky to an international meeting on the subject. Excuse me but isn't attending these type of meetings fall under his job requirements?
