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May 24, 2004

The UN's disgraceful "role"
Posted by McQ

Nat Hentoff reminds us again why reliance on the UN in just about any sphere, is an exercise in futility:

Only 10 years after the genocide in Rwanda — a horror that Bill Clinton and Kofi Annan, the head peacekeeper at the United Nations, could have stopped — Human Rights Watch, at the beginning of May, delivered to the U.N. General Assembly a detailed report from the killing grounds in Darfur, a province of Sudan that is becoming thenew Rwanda.

The grim list of atrocities documented "how Sudanese government forces have overseen anddirectly participated in massacres, summary executions of civilians, burnings of towns and villages, and the forcible depopulation of wide swathes of land" inhabited for generations by black African tribes.

The entity which demands it be the final arbiter of who goes where and what gets done in the world calmly sits by again and watches genocide being committed. Its reaction? Well, let's bring it up again in June and talk about it.

Rwanda wasn't enough, apparently, to actually galvanize the UN into actually taking action before prehaps another million lives are lost. No lesson learned there ...nor in Kosovo or Bosnia or, of course, Iraq.

So ... why should we think the Sudan will be any different?

Just asking.

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