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From AP:
GENEVA - The UN Human Rights Commission on Thursday adopted a resolution condemning abuses in Sudan, passing by consensus compromise wording on how to improve the situation in the embattled Darfur region.
The resolution had support from Sudan and other African nations, the United States, the European Union and others. It was approved after the EU withdrew a more stiffly worded document....
The Africans agreed to remove wording that praised the Sudanese governments steps to improve the situation in Darfur, while the Western countries dropped specific condemnation of the Sudanese government.
The resolution said, "The commission condemns continued, widespread and systematic violations by all parties of human rights and international humanitarian law" in Darfur.
It specifically condemned "the violence against civilians and sexual violence against women and girls, destruction of villages, widespread displacement and other violations."
Although the resolution didn't specify the government, human rights organizations have accused Khartoum of being responsible for much of the violence either directly or through militias it backs in putting down a rebellion.
Former U.S. Senator Rudy Boschwitz, who heads the United States delegation, said that while there had been improvements overall in Sudan in recent weeks, "the terrible tragedy continues in Darfur."
"Violence, atrocities and crimes against humanity regularly occur," he said. "Attacks on humanitarian workers continue. Displaced people, especially women, are vulnerable to murder, rape and abuse...
The western Sudanese region of Darfur has been the scene of what the United Nations has called the world's worst humanitarian crisis. An estimated 180,000 people have died in the upheaval and about two million others have been displaced since the conflict began in February 2003...
Posted by Rebecca at April 23, 2005 6:44 AM
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Of course, the Arab and Muslim countries were busy defending their fellow savages in the Sudan while most of the world's scum sit around fuming at Israel. Red China occupies Tibet and threatens Taiwan and the garbage scow French want to be their friends. It's a perverted world we live in, that's why the UN sucks!
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at April 23, 2005 11:16 AM
Perhaps someone could refresh my memory - but isn't Sudan a member of the UN Human Rights Commission (sorry for the sarcasm)? OK fox - you go guard that henhouse over there.
The UN exists in a different universe.
Posted by: johnb at April 23, 2005 1:40 PM
The UN will never grow a spine because (1) so much of its membership is tin-horn dictators who know darn well that they could be next and (2) the Western world isn't willing to get its hands dirty.
The sad fact is that only one thing stops genocide, ever has, or ever will: an army, or at least a credible threat of one. Economic sanctions only lead to temporizing while target populations die. The ICC is a good idea on paper, but the tyrant was never born who didn't think he'd rule to the end of his days. No dictator will listen to the ICC.
If we want to stop what's happening in Darfur, we're going to have to kill some Janjaweed. And in the process of killing people who need killing, we're going to end up killing some refugees, and we're going to end up with soldiers coming home in body bags.
What a rotten world we live in.
Posted by: Ray C. at April 23, 2005 8:46 PM
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