NBA Star Ira Newble Exclusive Trip to Darfur

Elie Seckbach the embedded nba correspondent talks to Lakers Ira Newble about his visit to refugee camps in Darfur and what he heard from victims.

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[gj1ilya69]

lol wade not enough media coverage? he has like a new commercial every week

[404errorfilenotfound]

Mr. Newble has my respect. China is the main perpetrator in Darfur. They buy up 2/3 of the Sudanese oil while supplying the govt/Janjaweed with arms for massacring the civilians to secure oilfields.

[dakmaster9]

Ira is a great guy, i know him personally, too!!! My cousin, stacy, is dating him right now!

[r1ch412d]

@Noobssuckass300 my mistake haha..i thought you were saying that its wrong that chinese people were "wearing and buying products" from their own country

[r1ch412d]

@Noobssuckass300 my mistake haha..i thought you were saying that its wrong that chinese people were "wearing and buying products" from their own country

[Noobssuckass300]

@r1ch412d I agree. I am responding to ingveg1974. he's such a hypocrite.

[r1ch412d]

@Noobssuckass300 and whats wrong with that? every country you look at, there is high, middle, and low class. Take a look at China's economy. They seem to be doing just fine. Much better than any other country.

[Noobssuckass300]

@r1ch412d These people are the worst kind of hypocrites. Demonizing a country, while at the same time wearing and buying products from the country.

[Noobssuckass300]

@ingve1974 concern. If you look at China's role in Africa, its a better alternative to the Western businesses. China makes an effort to build hospitals, schools, and roads. They do not exploit these Africans, instead making fair deals, with no small print on the contracts. They do not send in soldiers to bring communism to their countries, like NATO did with the pretense of bringing democracy to the Middle East.

[Noobssuckass300]

@ingve1974 I suppose you haven't heard of how the United States is supporting Saudi Arabia, the country which has repeatedly violated numerous human rights, especially those of women. Russia has also oppressed the Chechens, and Israel is bombing Palestinian homes. Yet, people seemed to be concerned only about China, who is doing only what the West has been doing. At least China is honest about its policies. They pay only with cash for oil; what the Sudanese do with the money is none of their

[Noobssuckass300]

@quius For what? Doing exactly what the Western governments are doing? Besides, the olympics is supposed to be a time where politics are put aside. It is selfish to boycott the olympics, dashing the dreams of athletes who looked forward to this event. If we were to boycott the Olympic Games because the host country was "supposedly" supporting a evil regime, we should boycott the 2012 Olympics in Great Britain because they supported Libya, and allowed the release of the Lockerbie bomber.

[Noobssuckass300]

@404errorfilenotfound And lets not forget that the United States actually supported Hosni Mubarak of Egypt and currently the Saudi Royal Family; the latter has absolutely no regards for human rights. Yet, the United States supports these two regimes with weaponry in exchange for oil.