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 منحني جديد للصحف البريطانية في طريقها الي دارفور (قبل الأشارة) !!!
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The Sunday Times
August 5 2007
Stars bicker over Darfur
John Harlow and Jon Swain
Hollywood celebrities are split over the crisis in Darfur. The actor George Clooney, who has campaigned on the issue, has publicly questioned the director Steven Spielberg’s hopes that pressure can be put on China to take a harder stand against the Sudanese government to stop the massacres.
Last week’s disagreement reflected deeper doubts over the United Nation’s plan to send an expanded peacekeeping force to halt the bloodshed and provide protection for refugees.
While the UN deal was hailed last week as “historic and unprecedented” by Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary-general and a foreign policy triumph for Gordon Brown, several aid officials criticised it as a diplomatic “con-job”. “It has come far too late and has been fatally slow,” said one.
After nine months of diplomacy the UN vote was passed unanimously last week when China, Sudan’s main arms supplier, oil customer and defender at the UN, dropped objections.
British officials said the break-through came about because China was afraid of a human rights backlash marring next year’s Olympic Games in Beijing. Other diplomats said it was because Britain and France had diluted the text to accommodate Chinese and Sudanese concerns.
Clooney, whose foundation, Not On Our Watch, has used celebrity power to raise millions to aid Darfur refugees, said he was delighted to have helped get Darfur noticed.
But he doubted Hollywood had played a part in embarrassing China into modifying its support for the Sudan government.
Spielberg, who runs a foundation dedicated to the study of genocide, has been criticised by Mia Farrow, another Hollywood activist, for helping the Chinese plan the opening ceremony for the Games. Farrow compared him to the film-maker Leni Riefenstahl glorifying Hitler’s Olympic Games in 1936.
Clearly stung, Spielberg sent an open letter to Beijing threatening to leave his post unless the Chinese government took more decisive action towards Sudan to “stop the genocide”.
Farrow said it was a “fine letter” and she believed he did not know about China’s role in Sudan. But she hoped he would pull out from the Games altogether.
Many African observers remain baffled by Hollywood’s obsession with Darfur which, while tragic, is far from Africa’s worst conflict. “The death toll in the Congo has reached 4m and Not On Our Watch are not selling $1,000 leather jackets to raise funds for them,” said an aid worker.
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