War Crimes and Denunciations
Anything done by any world body that seeks to address a problem that impacts by its deleterious attention on an Islam(ist) country is condemned out of hand as unnecessarily aggravating by most Muslim leaders. The simple fact is that the United Nations has failed on this file. In 2005 during a UN summit there was universal agreement and acceptance of the concept “Responsibility to Protect”'That the United Nations and/or a coalition of its member countries under the UN umbrella had a human obligation to protect those whose government would not, or could not. That the UN could take steps to protect a population. The idea was that if a nation failed in its duty to protect its citizens against genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity or ethnic cleansing, the UN had the obligation to do so.
The government of Sudan repeatedly denied entry to peacekeepers in the wake of the world’s realization of what was happening in Darfur. Khartoum eventually agreed to permit a coalition of African peacekeepers into the country and reluctantly agreed, then rescinded its agreement repeatedly, to admit UN peacekeepers alongside the ill-equipped and poorly-trained OAS peacekeepers.
Peacekeeping in Sudan proved to be a futile effort at protecting the Darfurians in well over a hundred refugee camps who are still the victims of murder, rape and mutilation. It was, finally, a non-United Nations body that decided it must act to deter future atrocities by states against their helpless populations; the International Criminal Court.
Which body was apprised beforehand that they risked exposing the violated people of Sudan to ongoing attacks. But those attacks were continuing, in any event. The Janjaweed, under direction of Khartoum, and alongside Sudanese government militas, have never really relented on their attacks, both inside the country and in Darfurian refugee camps in Chad.
The peace that the African and Arab bloc speak of is an elusive element, similar to what’s occurring in Democratic Republic of Congo, and atrocities are ongoing. There are risks in every undertaking. The world sat back and watched for almost a decade as the Muslim government of Sudan under its vicious leader, Omar al-Bashir has fought with elements of his country bitter that their needs have been overlooked at a time of oil-derived prosperity for other parts of the country.
Millions of Sudanese have died in the process of the Government of Sudan putting down insurrections. The more latter events in Darfur left the world aghast at the catastrophe, but nothing was done to alleviate the torment of the black farming communities who experienced death on a grand scale, alongside mass rapes, and millions of homeless refugees from the carnage.
To ignore the misery caused by a mass murderer is to relegate the deaths of uncountable people to the dustheap of history with no recourse to justice. Omar al-Bashir is treated with dignity and honour at Arab and Muslim gatherings where he can pontificate on issues whereby the problems associated with the criminal Zionist regime practising war crimes against the Palestinians should be dealt with.
The option to do nothing, to deplore the situation in Sudan (as we do with Zimbabwe, Congo, Somalia, Ethiopia, Rwanda) is always there. The UN can issue statement after statement of disappointment, and pleas for moderation and reconciliation, but these toothless displays of helplessness avail nothing whatever.
On the other hand, as the Arab and African states point out, if Sudan’s president were to be charged, the opportunity to achieve ‘peace’ (whatever they deign that to be) would be minimized, and most certainly Sudan would harass and oust humanitarian workers.
He’s done just what has been expected. But he’s done that on previous occasions too. What was there to lose? Ostensibly, an increased death toll. Yet spokespeople for the Darfurians have been quoted as saying they’re satisfied with the decision of the ICC.
And now, predictably, the UN is warning that the expected and now real expulsion of groups such as Save the Children and Oxfam is placing millions of lives in jeopardy, through starvation, privation, disease, and the continued marauding persecution by government militias aided by the Janjaweed.
It appears that Sudanese living in the capital are incensed and outraged that they’re being ‘targeted’ by the West. Their president tells them that he and he alone resists those who would attack the country’s sovereignty; above all, he is protecting his religion, he tells them, against this attack on God Himself.
Labels: Political Realities, Religion, World Crises
posted by Pieface @ Sunday, March 08, 2009
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