Middle East Focus: League of Arab Dictators and Absolute Monarchs in Syria, about the Somali Arabs and Racism……………

Arabia Deserta

League of Arab Dictators and Absolute Monarchs in Syria, about the Somali Arabs and Racism……………

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“"I am going to Homs," insisted Sudanese Gen. Mohammad Ahmed Mustafa al-Dabi, the head of the Arab League observer mission, telling reporters that so far the Assad regime had been "very cooperative." But Dabi may be the unlikeliest leader of a humanitarian mission the world has ever seen. He is a staunch loyalist of Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir, who is wanted by the International Criminal Court for genocide and crimes against humanity for his government's policies in Darfur. And Dabi's own record in the restive Sudanese region, where he stands accused of presiding over the creation of the feared Arab militias known as the "janjaweed," is enough to make any human rights activist blanch……….”

Yet who else is there that the Arab League can send? Who can this League of Arab dictators and absolute tribal monarchs send to monitor human rights in Syria?

An al-Khalifa shaikh/general from Bahrain who probably presides over an army of Bahraini thugs, Pakistani mercenaries and Jordanian torturers?
An al-Saud prince/general whose family presides over a kleptocracy and the worst human records in modern Middle East history?
An al-Nahayan shaikh/general of the UAE whose family is forming the largest mercenary army of Western and Latin American killers on my Gulf?
A Yemeni general whose ruling clan has probably killed thousands of protesters?
A representative of Egypt’s ruling military junta that still shoots and arrests protesters and bloggers and gives young women forced virginity tests?
Then there is that other ‘forgotten’ member of the Arab League, Somalia, a country that is divided into militias.
Which reminds me: wtf aren’t the Arabs worried about the violence, the starvation, the death, and the suffering in the sisterly Arab state of Somalia? What about the Arabs of Somalia? Can it be a form of racism? Probably not exactly: the Sudanese are also Arabs, as are a gaggle of well-known Saudi princes.