20 of the world biggest economies in the world have met in the G-20 meeting in London. The topic of the day was hedge funds, regulations and an agreement to give slightly more than $1 trillion to the IMF, world bank and other global institutions that lend money to other countries.

What was not discussed was the crisis in Darfur and the imminent lack of respect the Arabs gave to the ICC warrant on the arrest of Sudanese President Omar Al Bashir. I felt that it is a topic that should be discussed at the G20 summit. It should not be the main subject, but I felt that is should be brought up at some point in the discussion.

The reason I feel that this is not being brought up while the impending North Korean rocket launch is being discussed is the fact that the public in general have forgotten about Sudan in the midst of all these economic talk.

I however, think otherwise. The first reason is that 400 000 people died. Anytime this amount of people die, it should be a grave concern. Worse is that the manner that the killings took place were that of genocide.

The world said never again after Auschwitz, yet it happened again. It said never after Pol Pot in Cambodia, yet it happened. They said never again after Iraq, yet it happened again. They said never again for Rwanda, yet it happened. The sad fact is that the UN, without the backing of the US, seems so pathetically weak to stop another genocide from ever happening again.

The US has carried an unfair amount of burden on her soldiers. She carries the responsibility of “policing” the world. That is supposed to be the job of the UN, but due to the politics involved the UN proved to be an utter failure.

The other side of the story that is less often being told is that of why the Darfur genocide began in the first place. The entire crisis started because Arab militia began to fight for food. Due to drought and floods, Arab tribes land were all but lost. The Black Muslim farmers in Darfur had the land.

So what started by raids and theft soon turned out to be an all out war between 2 ethnic groups, between the Arabs and the Black Muslims. This was soon further aggravated by the Janjaweed, a militia group that had been radicalized by Osama bin Laden himself. It was after the involvement of the Janjaweed that genocide really took place to the state of what Darfur is in today.

The Darfur crisis highlights the need for the world to help out people in times of hunger and drought or the world should be ready to bear the consequences. There is a saying that a hungry man is an angry man. This is something that is always so true.

This is where part of the initiative to help out poorer countries come from the attempt to give money to the poorer countries in the world to help their economies. This is the reason why some states such as the US and the UK, who are in debt themselves, are willing to be contribute their share to a pile of more than a trillion dollars to help other economies.

Darfur should teach us that we should not let people all around the world to collectively go hungry. While Darfur is a case where violence had not spilled over the border of Sudan, other cases of genocide caused by hunger are not the same.

We should really take a stand and say never again to genocide and hunger. I think it is not only something that is important politically, it is something that should be a universal standard for our morals.

** For regular readers, I would give you guys an article on the G20 summit soon, but I would like to analyze the G20 communique in more detail. **

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