The Janjaweed massacred 300 people
in Sudan's North Kordofan state,
or perhaps 450, in three days
of slaughter, from July Tenth
to July Thirteenth; then it took almost a week
for the news of the carnage to come out,
and the exact numbers are still unclear.
It could be 'just' 300, it probably is around 450.
At least 35 children are confirmed
to be among the killed, the murdered,
and two pregnant women,
but the United Nations expects that number to rise
as more information is gotten. It's
all down to local authorities and organizations
to count the dead, with the UN
verifying what it can, 90 lives lost.
It seems there is little
in the way of photographs or videos
to record the slaughter. When
it comes to occupied Palestine's Gaza Strip
the international news media uses the excuse
that Apartheid Israel's regime doesn't let them in.
For Sudan there are no excuses.
The journalists could go. But they are not sent
beyond Khartoum or Port Sudan.
When it comes to Gaza,
the international news media has reduced reporting,
claiming that their audiences are tired
of seeing news about Gaza,
when it's just them themselves that are tired
of doing their job, it seems.
But when it comes to Sudan,
even that lame excuse doesn't work:
Audiences can't be tired of what they have
hardly been shown at all.
And what kind of audience made of moral people
would tire of seeing news about genocides
in Sudan and occupied Palestine?
18.07.2025
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