Danny Glover
Out of context: Reply #29
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These guys can show their support all they want and that's great, it really is. Does it solve anything? You have a huge land mass in Sudan, one of the biggest countries on the planet.
Military regimes favoring Islamic-oriented governments have dominated national politics since independence from the UK in 1956. Civil war for all but 10 years of this period (1972-82). The wars are rooted in northern economic, political, and social domination of non-Muslim, non-Arab southern Sudanese.
Since 1983, the war and war- and famine-related effects have led to more than 2 million deaths and over 4 million people displaced. The ruling regime is a mixture of military elite and an Islamist party that came to power in a 1989 coup. Some northern opposition parties have made common cause with the southern rebels and entered the war as a part of an anti-government alliance.
It's a tangled freakin' mess! So let's hear some ideas about what to do? Which power would you guys like to go in and take them over? UN?