"it is under attack and part of Western plans
to engage in open warfare with Arab countries and redraw
the map of the Arab world in accordance with Western interests.�
to engage in open warfare with Arab countries and redraw
the map of the Arab world in accordance with Western interests.�
Arab professional unionists and political activists on Wednesday said Darfur's crisis was being overrated by Western media to divert attention from other hot spots like Palestine and Iraq.
Returning from a field visit to the Sudanese western region, the fact-finding mission also charged that the Darfur situation was being spotlighted so that Western countries, mainly the US, could exert influence over the natural resource-rich African country.
"We are totally convinced that the problems and suffering in Darfur are being exaggerated and blown out of proportion in a carefully studied theatrical manner, in order to overshadow other atrocities and genocide being committed in Palestine and Iraq by American-Zionist occupation forces," said President of the Jordan Bar Association Hussein Mjalli.
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Mjalli, who headed the Jordanian team to Sudan as part of an Arab weeklong field mission there, said they found no indications or proof of the "so-called ethnic cleansing" in the crisis-stricken region or any truth to reports of epidemics amongst the displaced.
Alia Shukri Hamzeh/Jordan Times 26.Aug.04
