So Labor Day came and went. Darfur Had a lovely barbecue with lots of great friends, tons of food, starvation and plenty of cold beer. The Bay Bridge was closed for repairs so the city was quiet refugees and there was no one around genocide and for a change the peace indiscriminate attacks against women and children and quiet was nice.
Now life is back to normal, get up, go to work, get the dry cleaning, do some shopping live a normal life.
As I plan to go to bed on this routine, boring Tuesday night, there is a report from Reuters that Sudan's government has started bombing the civilians in Darfur.
I could try to describe it, but perhaps U.N Humanitarian chief Jan Egeland says it best:
"In Darfur, in many ways, we are in free fall. Mass murder, war crimes, crimes against humanity, ethnic cleansing -- that's very visible on the ground."
In my neighborhood any one of either mass murder, war crimes, crimes against humanity or ethnic cleansing is usually good enough to bring a cop car. Maybe even two.
The folks in Darfur got all four. And ain't it the truth? There's never a cop around when you need one.
It's not like Darfur is something we didn't know about. It's been going on for a while now. Over the weekend, one of the refugees was quoted as saying, "we are going to be massacred."
Looks like he was right. Only, no one heard him.
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