The Specter of a Moslem/Christian Rwanda

The mysterious death of John Guarang is unleashing an eerily familiar scenario, threatening to cut short yet another Islamo-Christian rapprochement.

A poor African country is bitterly divided into two warring parties. Fortunately, a historical peace treaty to bring the two together has been recently signed. Just a bit later, the leader of one of the groups and signatory of that treaty has died (killed?) in an air accident. Loud riots are beginning to be heard in the capital.

If the African country in question was Rwanda, then the rest of the story would be known: 500,000 men, women and children were cruelly massacred for their sheer ethnic affiliation.
But it’s not: The country in question is Sudan, where the leader of the (Christian/pagan) south, who was recently declared Vice-president of a united country after a long and bitter fight with the (Moslem) north ended, died in a helicopter crash. Violent riots are beginning to be heard in Khartoum.

The international community has to move fast to avoid another embarrassing repeat of Rwanda. What adds more to the urgency is the symbolic nature of the Sudan conflict: a fight between Moslems and Christians. This should end very quickly. God knows how little we need other Jihadists and Crusaders.

P.S: the movie Hotel Rwanda should be playing in Lebanon anytime soon. I strongly recommend it.