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Right or wrong? (kidnapped children from Darfur)

KannKann Posts: 1,146
edited October 2007 in A Moving Train
Chad charges 6 French with kidnapping

The extracts :
"N'DJAMENA, Chad - Six French nationals have been charged with kidnapping after a failed attempt to fly from Chad with 103 children a charity said were orphans from Sudan's Darfur region, authorities said Tuesday. [...]
L'Arche de Zoe, or Zoe's Ark, said it had arranged French host families for the children to save them from possible death in Sudan's western Darfur region. More than four years of conflict there has left more than 200,000 people dead and 2.5 million displaced — many to eastern Chad."

If the ngo's (Zoe's Ark) plan had worked they would have gone out of Chad with the 103 orphan sudanese children who would have then been placed in various french families. But it didn't and these people face 20 years of prison for kidnapping. I'm not really sure about if I find this right or wrong.
On one side you can't really argue with justice or there's really no point in having a judiciary system, on another side these people actually tried to save these children from the life that awaited them in Darfur.
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  • qtegirlqtegirl Posts: 321
    I heard on the radio that the Chadian authorities are saying that the kids were from Chad, not orphans from Darfur like the NGO claims.

    If that is true, this is a whole different story.
  • KannKann Posts: 1,146
    qtegirl wrote:
    I heard on the radio that the Chadian authorities are saying that the kids were from Chad, not orphans from Darfur like the NGO claims.

    If that is true, this is a whole different story.

    Yes, but the ngo claim they did not know this and honestly intended to save orphans from Darfur. I find this a tough moral question, especially considering the severity of the punishment.
  • MahoganySoulsMahoganySouls Posts: 357
    Regardless of which area these children were from, if they were orphans or given to the group from their families, they were being taken away from a horrific quality of life. Any way you look at it, they WERE being saved. Now they have been cast back into the same bleak future they faced prior to Zoe's Arc. Someone seriously destroyed these kids only hope for a life.
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  • Heineken HelenHeineken Helen Posts: 18,095
    MahoganySouls wrote:
    Regardless of which area these children were from, if they were orphans or given to the group from their families, they were being taken away from a horrific quality of life. Any way you look at it, they WERE being saved. Now they have been cast back into the same bleak future they faced prior to Zoe's Arc. Someone seriously destroyed these kids only hope for a life.
    I'm not so sure. I can see where Chad are coming from here. People can't take the law into their hands in ANY country. Also of course it's possible it was some kinda trafficking thing and this is just a pretty good excuse... and do you KNOW how many kids go missing every year into child prostitution and stuff like that?
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  • KannKann Posts: 1,146
    Heineken Helen wrote:
    I'm not so sure. I can see where Chad are coming from here. People can't take the law into their hands in ANY country. Also of course it's possible it was some kinda trafficking thing and this is just a pretty good excuse... and do you KNOW how many kids go missing every year into child prostitution and stuff like that?

    I don't think it was about trafficking at all. Families in France actually paid the ngo to help them bring the children to France hoping to adopt them. All the children had a place in various families before even leaving Chad. But on the other hand you just can't fuck with the law or justice is useless. I still hope they're not in for 20 years of labor in Chad.
  • tybirdtybird Posts: 17,388
    Sounds like a pretense to invading Chad...........an oil producing state. :D
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  • NoKNoK Posts: 824
    what I found really interesting was the fact that Sarkozy travelled to Africa to release these journalists.. its been a while since ive seen a president/prime minister travel to a country to get his nationals released..

    http://africa.reuters.com/wire/news/usnL04419851.html

    Chad frees 3 French journalists, 4 Spanish crew
    Sun 4 Nov 2007, 13:44 GMT

    N'DJAMENA, Nov 4 (Reuters) - Chad released three French journalists and four Spanish flight attendants on Sunday, a lawyer for one of the journalists said, after French President Nicolas Sarkozy arrived in Africa to discuss their case.
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