Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir is now telling the world, “Who are you going to believe? Me…or your lying eyes?”
In a genocide where estimates of death range between 200,000 to 400,000+, Bashir says that the actual number of deaths is only around 9,000 and is rejecting a U.N. security council’s resolution to send in 22,500 U.N. troops to take over from the 7,000 African Union troops already in the region.
Bashir is also saying that the aid workers in region are lying about the level of violence in order to keep their jobs there and that the refugee camps in which an estimated 2,000,000 Darfurians find themselves in after having to flee their homes are “perfectly safe”.
I am always amazed at how people in high authority can lie even when the facts point in the totally opposite direction. I can only hope that Bashir’s days in office are numbered.
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