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Following Turkey’s Genocidal Lead

January 24th, 2008 by

As human rights groups express shock and dismay over Sudan’s recent appointment of a Janjaweed militia coordinator responsible for atrocities in Darfur to a top government post, Turkey is busy courting the head of state in charge of Sudan’s continuing policy of genocide.

Omar al-Bashir, President of Sudan, has made it openly clear that he values his relationship with Turkey and seeks to follow in that country’s footsteps. “Our ties with Turkey are long-established and gained momentum in recent years. We want to benefit from Turkey’s experiences,” the Sudanese president told reporters during a press conference in Ankara earlier this week.

Indeed, Bashir seems to be learning from Anakara’s history of genocide and ethnic cleansing quite well. It has also been taking several pages out of Turkey’s tactics of denial. Like Hitler, Bashir must surely be thinking to himself, “Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?”

Do we need any more stark and frightening proof that, by setting the precedent that genocide can be committed with impunity, giving in to the Turkish denial machine makes the world a more dangerous place?

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