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To: Ichy Smith who wrote (9032)	7/26/2007 9:13:36 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 20106

The Devil Came on Horseback (Darfur) National Review ^ \| July 26, 2007 \| Louis Wittig article.nationalreview.com Photos: ushmm.org When Brian Steidle left the U.S. Marine Corps in 2004, he went to Sudan, to monitor a ceasefire between rebel groups and the government. What he ended up monitoring was some of the worst violence of the Sudanese government’s ongoing carnival of genocide in Darfur. "If the world really knew what was going on in Darfur, there would be troops here in a week,” Steidle wrote to his sister early in his tour. The Devil Came on Horseback, a feature documentary on Steidle’s witness, is a vivid presentation of what is still going on there. For reasons that, the film explains, have something to do with resources and development and representation, black African rebels in Darfur attacked the Arab central government several years ago. In response, the government — using infrastructure built by Chinese oil companies — arms and trains local Arab militias, the janjaweed (“devil on horseback” is the translation). Then, with the Sudanese air force softening up their targets, it sets them loose on village after village of civilians. Trying to sculpt the violence into a taut storyline, directors Annie Sundberg and Ricki Stern employ faux-news b-roll and breathless, contrived radio reports. Though not terribly effective, it creates a prescient mood: the butchery in Darfur doesn’t seem to begin, or wax, or wane, or end. Nor does Steidle’s awareness of it slowly deepen or complicate. One day he hears rumors of this. Then he sees it firsthand. There’s no gradual, complicated reaction when looking at the bodies of schoolgirls who’d been handcuffed inside a hut and set on fire. Immolation is a janjaweed favorite, along with looting, castration, rape and plucking the eyeballs out of unarmed civilians’ heads before shooting them. (Excerpt) Read more at article.nationalreview.com ....