@KarunaX
Gaza is one atrocity amongst so many. #gaza
Does anyone care about 8 million refugees starving in Sudan alone as a deliberate weapon against civilians? #war
“the authorities revoked permits for cross-border truck convoys, WFP reported, forcing teams to halt operations from Chad to Darfur.” #warcrimes https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/03/1147287
@ApaulD@KarunaX The situation in Sudan and the surrounding region is atrocious. Millions displaced. Millions going hungry. Evidence of systematic eliminationist violence in some areas. As always, African news barely breaks the surface of western media outlets.
However, there are some crucial differences between the starvation crisis in Sudan and the starvation crisis in Gaza that make the latter of particularly acute moral concern for so many ordinary Australian citizens.
Western governments are more directly complicit with the genocide in Gaza. The Australian government is not supporting and helping to arm the RSF. The US is not using its veto in the Security Council to protect the aggressive and dominant force. Western media are not running hundreds of stories uncritically spreading the military propaganda of the side committing most of the atrocities. The leader of the opposition is not attempting to criminalise activities drawing attention to the Sudanese crisis. People are not losing their jobs if they speak out about the crisis in ways that criticise the authorities most responsible for perpetuating and escalating it. President Biden would not be able to end the food crisis in Sudan with a single phonecall.
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