Sudanese War

[Sister Sara]

They don't care about Sudan.

The media, yes. Irish people no.

Yesterday, An Taoiseach Mícheál Martin, speaking on behalf of the Irish government representing the people of Ireland put the Sudan conflict front and centre on the international stage, along with Palestine and Afghanistan. Maybe you missed his speech? Or maybe you missed the reporting in the media today?
I don’t blame you if you did , while the media reporting on his speech was widespread the part about Sudan was very, very sparse. In fact, Martin, representing the views of Irish people with authority recognised this in his speech “We must not allow the absence of dailyheadlines to become a licence for inaction.” Martin clearly understands how it is the media that has the power to alert the people to this tragedy. “The people of Sudan deserve thesame attention, urgency and solidarity that we rightly extend to crises elsewhere”. How do the Irish media respond today? Palestine is front and centre (rightly) but Sudan is just a footnote.

The refusal of IDATU members to handle South African produce started in July 1984. Very few paid attention until Archbishop Desmond Tutu arrived in Ireland to meet the strikers.
With it, came media attention. The subsequent refusal of SA authorities to admit the strikers into SA on Tutu’s invitation heightened the media attention. This, along with cultural movements in other Western societies garnering media attention – eg Give me Hope Joanna, Sun City (I’m not gonna play) brought pressure to bear on Western governments to act against the SA apartheid government with Ireland being the first country to imposesanctions against SA produce.

That’s why there is an explosion of solidarity with people about Palestine over the last 2yrs despite the conflict going for near 80yrs. The horrors in Gaza and the genocidal rhetoric of the Israeli government has been exposed through widespread media coverage.

https://www.findglocal.com/IE/Dublin/315805308293219/Ireland-Sudan-Solidarity-Collective

You can get involved by contacting issc@irelandmail.com to help raise awareness.

 

[Sister Sara]

They are helping to sustain and support a country which is committing genocide.

Ireland has €2.5bn trade with UAE through an EU trade association agreement. Wouldn’t it be more effective to end, or suspend that arrangement than targeting some unidentified Irish people on very dubious allegations?

They are providing medical treatment to the people ordering and funding that genocide.

Have you anything to substantiate that claim?

They are probably treating the soldiers who are participating in that genocide.

‘Probably’ is someway off what you said about them ‘enriching themselves from slavery and murder’. If they are medics, they are duty bound to treat the injured without imposing or assuming judgement on them. I'm sure that is an internationally recognised norm?

They educating the children and the young men who will soon be participating in genocide.

Are they are educating the children and young men to participate in a genocide?? Have you anything of substance to back this up or is it just another outlandish claims that sets the tone to dehumanise children and young men before they ever done anything wrong?

If they are simply providing education - reading, writing, etc, they are as likely, more likely I'd guess, to be educating the very people that will end this conflict and perhaps hold those responsible to account one day.