A President, A Boy And Genocide -- A Commentary

After a grenade exploded, Bakit Musa, 8, lost his hands, one eye and the skin on half of his face. Nicholas D. Kristof/The New York Times

From The New York Times:

When the International Criminal Court issued its arrest warrant for Sudan’s president on Wednesday, an 8-year-old boy named Bakit Musa would have clapped — if only he still had hands.

I met Bakit a couple of weeks ago in eastern Chad, near the border of Darfur. He and two friends had found a grenade left behind in fighting after Sudan’s president, Omar Hassan al-Bashir, armed and dispatched a proxy force to wreak havoc in Chad. The boys played with the grenade, and it exploded, taking both of Bakit’s hands, one eye and the skin on half of his face.

So Bakit became, inadvertently, one more casualty of the havoc and brutality that President Bashir has unleashed in Sudan and surrounding countries. Other children laugh at him, so Bakit plays by himself in the dust on the outskirts of a huge camp for people displaced by Mr. Bashir.

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My Comment: I fear that the groundwork for a more thorough and brutal genocidal campaign is about to begin. Other African countries are either to weak or complicit in this slaughter. And as for the West, we are more concern with Afghanistan and our own current economic crisis.

The thugs in Sudan know this .... and that is why they are now preparing to implement their own version of the final solution.