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So what is going on with Darfur?

  • 12-04-2008 2:19am
    #1
    yawtin
    Registered Users Posts: 51 ✭✭


    I don't know enough of it to think China should be blamed for what is going on there.

    Does anybody want to educate me?

    Here is a question list:

    where is darfur?
    Is it a country?
    Who is fighting with the government and for what reason?
    China sold Arms to the government but did anyone sell arms to the opposition?
    Why should that government not buy arms from China?
    Do the Irish government have arms? if so, where does the irish government buy its arms from?


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  • #2
    Sir Digby Chicken Caesar
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,556 ✭✭✭✭Sir Digby Chicken Caesar


    lol


  • #3
    FunkZ
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,179 ✭✭✭FunkZ


    Jaysus I need to sleep now, cheers for that!


  • #4
    monkeyfudge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,216 ✭✭✭✭monkeyfudge


    yawtin wrote: »
    Do the Irish government have arms? if so, where does the irish government buy its arms from?

    Musgraves I think.


  • #5
    El Weirdo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,647 ✭✭✭✭El Weirdo


    monkeyfudge wrote: »
    Musgraves I think.

    That's where you are bang wrong my simian friend. Its a well known fact that Ireland buys its' arms from the same place as Heather Mills buys her leg.

    *coat on - leaving*


  • #6
    KnifeWRENCH
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,148 ✭✭✭✭KnifeWRENCH


    Darfur is a region in Sudan.

    That's all I can answer coz your other questions are a bit....odd:pac:


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  • #7
    Mossy Monk
    Closed Accounts Posts: 28,128 ✭✭✭✭Mossy Monk


    See here and here.

    Finally see here.


  • #8
    admiralofthefleet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,515 ✭✭✭✭admiralofthefleet


    monkeyfudge wrote: »
    Musgraves I think.

    no, bwg are better, they supply spar after all. after that elliots are the bestest:o


  • #9
    Adam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,866 ✭✭✭Adam


    Mossy Monk wrote: »
    See here and here.

    Finally see here.
    Fup that, see here!


  • #10
    Unpossible
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,191 ✭✭✭Unpossible


    Why should that government not buy arms from China?
    As I understand it the problem is not that somebody is buying arms from china or that china should not be allowed to sell arms to anyone. The problem is that the americans tell us that nobody should supply arms to certain groups who they deem as being morally wrong/oppresive/etc. So because of the Sudan governments role in dafur the americans do not want that government to have weapons. The objection is that China is willing to sell to the government as opposed to the government buying from china. If it were a european country selling to them there would also be pressure on them to stop, or at least there should be (I think france supplies weapons to Iran, or was it Saddams Iraq? and we don't hear too much about it) .
    America also refuses to deal with a bunch of other african nations for some similar moral reasons.


    edit: the people on our military forum will be able to tell you where Ireland gets its weapons from.


  • #11
    Dave!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,857 ✭✭✭✭Dave!


    There's nothing going on in Darfur, go about your business.


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  • #12
    Unpossible
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,191 ✭✭✭Unpossible


    Has the conflict ended? Its not in the news much these days so I don't know


  • #13
    wes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,747 ✭✭✭✭wes


    A lot of info can be gotten here:

    SaveDarfur.org


  • #14
    EamonnKeane
    Closed Accounts Posts: 950 ✭✭✭EamonnKeane


    Unpossible wrote: »
    Has the conflict ended? Its not in the news much these days so I don't know

    it's not likely to ever end


  • #15
    Oilrig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 727 ✭✭✭Oilrig


    Sudan has oil - China needs oil
    China has weapons - Sudan needs weapons

    substitute "Sudan" with an African country of your choice
    substitute "oil" with relevant minerals
    substitute weapons with hard cash and you get the picture...

    Africa re-colonised.

    Darfur is a different issue.


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