The UAE has been accused of supporting the Rapid Support Forces paramilitary, which has committed some of the worst atrocities in Sudan's three-year civil war.
Thanks for this heightened awareness of what the commercial NBA is supporting genocide. There needs to be more of this and both women's and men's professional basketball players need to be made aware and use their potent platforms to voice their dissent of being used to promote the UAE's complicity in genocide
The UAE are definitely bad actors. It's also worth remembering that a top oil executive from this petrostate was selected as the head of the COP28 international climate meeting, a move that suggests the climate COP process is completely corrupted!
Thanks for this heightened awareness of what the commercial NBA is supporting genocide. There needs to be more of this and both women's and men's professional basketball players need to be made aware and use their potent platforms to voice their dissent of being used to promote the UAE's complicity in genocide
Ain't gonna happen. The national religion isn't Christianity, it's chasing dollars.
Greed and money seem to matter more to many than human lives and human dignity. My heart continues to ache for the Sudanese people.
The UAE are definitely bad actors. It's also worth remembering that a top oil executive from this petrostate was selected as the head of the COP28 international climate meeting, a move that suggests the climate COP process is completely corrupted!
With folks holding comedians to higher standards, I am curious how the links between our sports heroes and oppressive governments will be viewed.