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 Re: الفجر الجديد .. صوت ثوار دارفور .. العدد (10) .. (Re: hamid hajer)
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Secretary General of United Nation
New York, N.Y.
May 15, 2004.
Dear Mr. Annan,
It is inconceivable that merely 10 years after the genocide in Rwanda, another one is emerging in western Sudan and the world again is paralyzed to act. Sir, it is unacceptable for the secretary general of the U.N. to simply make soft pronouncements on the crisis and ask the regime in Khartoum to negotiate with the rebels in Darfur to end the conflict.The leader of the international body that is supposed to uphold the 1948 U.N. Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide cannot speak softly but must lead with moral resolve imploring the world to act expeditiously . Credible evidence from multiple sources indicates that mass executions, gang rapes, wide-scale torture, displacement and countless others of African descent are herded into concentration camps for their extermination. This clearly contravenes Article 2 of the above U.N. Convention which says genocide is "to deliberately inflict on the groups conditions of life calculated to bring about its destruction in whole or in part". This would unequivocally qualify in Darfur.
Sir, the weak-kneed response of the world politic to allow these
crimes against humanity to continue without forcefully pushing for
humanitarian access or punishing the regime in Khartoum
through meaningful resolutions in the U.N. Security Council only confirms the profound dysfunction and moral failure of the United Nations, once more.
Mr. Annan , history will judge YOU harshly if you do not have the moral rectitude and fortitude to lead the world to act without delay, with great vigour and determination to end the emerging genocide
in Sudan. Otherwise the echo of "Never Again" will seem distant and hollow .
Respectfully,
Norman L. Epstein M.D.
co-chair Canadians Against Slavery and Torture in Sudan
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hamid hajer
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