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 The UN Takes Its Turn at Posturing on Genocide in Darfur and Eastern Chad
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Posted by: ereeves on Apr 18, 2006 - 09:24 PM
The UN took its turn this week with a telling display of small-minded irrelevance.
In response to UN Security Council Resolution 1591 (March 2005), the US and Britain finally proposed sanctioning four individual Sudanese: a Janjaweed militia, two rebel officials, and a mid-level member of theNIF. The stature of the “middle-ranking member of the Sudanese government” designated for sanctioning was reported by Associated Press last week.
The UK recently allowed Saleh Gosh to travel to London, ostensibly for medical treatment. This accommodation was made for a man who bears immense responsibility for the denial of all medical care to hundreds of thousands of civilians in Darfur and eastern Chad
. And dismayingly, the inevitable effect of an ignominious defeat for such a modest sanctioning effort will be to convince Khartoum’s genocidaires that they have nothing more to fear from the UN Security Council than they do from the International Criminal Court, which has been contemptuously stiff-armed by Khartoum
It is important to bear in mind here that in its Darfur policy, the National Islamic Front regime has fully marginalized the southern Sudan People’s Liberation Movement, nominally part of the “Government of National Unity.” SPLM “foreign minister” Lam Akol has proved a willing tool of the NIF genocidaires, and the Movement has yet to find its voice on Darfur in any significant fashion.
Certainly Khartoum is feeling no meaningful pressure to relent in its escalating war on humanitarian operations in Darfur.
The number of civilians that are inaccessible to humanitarian relief now far exceeds half a million in the greater Darfur/eastern Chad humanitarian theater; it could conceivably reach to almost 1 million in the very near term.
The horsemen are still there, still destroying villages, and attacking those who dare to return to their lands and what remains of their homes.
And they will continue to kill, rape, and destroy because there is nothing to stop them. Nothing
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