Letters to the Editor: Sudan is latest chapter in sorry saga of human rights abuse

Smoke is seen rising from a neighborhood in Khartoum, Sudan. While most western citizens have been successfully evacuated from Sudan, far too little consideration is being given to the trauma being suffered by the citizens of Sudan, writes one correspondent.

The conflict in Sudan again demonstrates the abject failure of the UN and the international community to prevent or stop conflicts in Africa that have amounted to genocide and widespread human rights abuses. In 1994, the international community stood idly by as up to quarter of a million Rwandan people were slaughtered. This conflict then spilled over into the Democratic Republic of Congo igniting a conflict that is still ongoing causing several more million deaths. European and western lives are given priority over the lives of the rest of humanity. The US and NATO intervened eventually to stop the conflict in Bosnia in 1995 although their attempts to impose democracy there have arguably failed.

Little has been learned from the 20-year US-led unjustified war of vengeance waged against the Afghan people. In the resulting 2021 evacuation chaos dogs were given priority over Afghans who worked with western forces and whose lives were in danger. No accountability has been achieved for the ongoing trauma that the Afghan people are still going through. While most western citizens have been successfully evacuated from Sudan, far too little consideration is being given to the trauma being suffered by the citizens of Sudan. How many Sudanese refugees will be allowed into Fortress Europe? Many of these conflicts in Africa and the Middle East have roots in European colonial abuses.