(Wall Street Journal) Kamel Labidi - The present cycle of horror and devastation in Sudan continues to prompt more concern in Western countries than in the Arab world. The victims of this new African tragedy of ethnic slaughter are hundreds of thousands of civilians of the Muslim faith. Though Muslim, they are not of the same ethnic origin as their Arab oppressors in Sudan and the majority of their neighbors in North Africa and the Middle East. The atrocious campaign of ethnic cleansing in Sudan today would have prompted deafening official and popular protests in Arab capitals had the victims been of Arab descent and the perpetrators non-Arabs. The writer is former Amnesty International Human Rights Education Coordinator for the Middle East and North Africa.
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