AskHind - Why Don't You Care About Darfur?

[Misreeya]

I like her take on it, because that is what i notice among our circles as well.

 

[Bawon Samedi]

Might subscribe to her channel. Been liking her videos. Also I find it good that N Sudanese themselves are speaking out on the topic.

 

[Misreeya]

Might subscribe to her channel. Been liking her videos. Also I find it good that N Sudanese themselves are speaking out on the topic.

Did you watch the video in its entirety? because she really breaks it down quite well of the reality of the situation, and what people really think and what kind of "African" you are.

 

[Bawon Samedi]

Did you watch the video in its entirety? because she really breaks it down quite well of the reality of the situation, and what people really think and what kind of "African" you are.

I'm about to watch it.

Also @MansaMusa @Trajan if yall are interested.

 

[Indiglow Meta (R$G)]

I need to know more. Thank you.

 

[Karb]

What does she man by "you have to be the same kind of African"?

I assume she's referring to skin color? I.e. if you come from a dark tribe you can't marry someone from a light tribe?

 

[MajorVitaman]

"The whole arabized 'thing', that's not the root of the racism"

 

[Karb]

"The whole arabized 'thing', that's not the root of the racism"

Makes sense. She said that an Arabized Nubian can marry a non-arabized Nubian if they're the "same kind of African" (I'm taking that to mean that they have a similar phenotype). But a nilotic looking Arab cannot marry from a lighter skinned Arab.

 

[The Odum of Ala Igbo]

Downplay the janjaweed militia, brehettes

 

[Karb]

Downplay the janjaweed militia, brehettes

Them janjaweed nikkas are blacker than half past midnight, breh

I remember this dude from back in the day saw a couple of them online and was like "them janjaweed must be on that ganja weed to think that they're Arab"

 

[The Odum of Ala Igbo]

Them janjaweed nikkas are blacker than half past midnight, breh

I remember this dude from back in the day saw a couple of them online and was like "them janjaweed must be on that ganja weed to think that they're Arab"

For sure, but I think she did a disservice describing how the Sudanese government armed 'people'. They armed a militia to defeat the Fur people while they attended to their battles in Southern Sudan and the Nuba Mountains.

 

[Karb]

For sure, but I think she did a disservice describing how the Sudanese government armed 'people'. They armed a militia to defeat the Fur people while they attended to their battles in Southern Sudan and the Nuba Mountains.

Yeah I know breh. What happened to the Fur was downright disgraceful. The fact that the government intervened on the side of the Arabs makes it even worse.

 

[The Odum of Ala Igbo]

Yeah I know breh. What happened to the Fur was downright disgraceful. The fact that the government intervened on the side of the Arabs makes it even worse.

Reading about the history of the Janjaweed. From Wikipedia so take it with a pinch of salt:

In 1972, Muammar al-Gaddafi created the Islamic Legion as a tool to unify and Arabize the region. The priority of the Legion was first Chad, and then Sudan.[citation needed]

In Darfur, a western province of Sudan, Gaddafi supported the creation of the Arab Gathering (Tajammu al-Arabi), which according to Gérard Prunier was "a militantly racist and pan-Arabist organization which stressed the 'Arab' character of the province."[8] The two organizations shared members and a source of support, and the distinction between the two is often ambiguous[citation needed].

The nearly continuous cross-border raids that resulted greatly contributed to a separate ethnic conflict within Darfur that killed about 9,000 people between 1985 and 1988.[9] The Janjaweed leadership has some background in Gaddafi's mercenaries.[10][11]

The Janjaweed first appeared in 1988 after Chadian President Hissène Habré, backed by France and the United States, defeated the Libyan army, thereby ending Col. Muammar al-Gaddafi’s territorial designs on Chad. Gaddafi’s Chadian protégé, Acheickh Ibn Omer Saeed, retreated with his partisan forces to Darfur, where they were hosted by Sheikh Musa Hilal, the newly elevated chief of the Rizeigat Arab tribes of north Darfur.[citation needed] Hilal’s tribesmen had earlier smuggled Libyan weapons to Ibn Omer’s forces.[citation needed] A French-Chadian incursion destroyed Ibn Omer’s camp, but his weapons remained with his Mahamid hosts.[citation needed]

Throughout the 1990s, the Janjaweed were Arab partisans, tolerated by the Sudan Government, who pursued local agendas of controlling land. The majority of Darfur’s Arabs, the Baggara confederation, began their presence in the war over grazing territory, and remain involved.[12] In 1999-2000, faced with threats of insurgencies in Western and Northern Darfur, Khartoum’s security armed the Janjaweed forces.[

 

[The Odum of Ala Igbo]

@Karbaash - This is why elements of the Janjaweed invaded Chad in 2008 along with other groups.

Sudanese geopolitics is very interesting. I'm tempted to do a Sudanese geopolitics thread - though @Misreeya should do it.

 

[Karb]

@Karbaash - This is why elements of the Janjaweed invaded Chad in 2008 along with other groups.

Sudanese geopolitics is very interesting. I'm tempted to do a Sudanese geopolitics thread - though @Misreeya should do it.

I don't know much about Sudanese politics tbh. Would be very interested to learn more.