Mr Reeves has the facts wrong, and I resent his efforts to polish the UN's rep at the expense of the Bush Administration. Also it is not accomplishing his goals to help Sudan.
Colin Powell as Secretary of Defense fought for the US postion that Darfur was a genocide. He tried to get that declaration at the UN.
The UN and Annan refuse to acknowledge that fact. If the UN did its job and called it a genocide, the stricter provisions enacted post Rwanda would be invoked.
Monday, January 31, 2005
U.N.: Darfur Not Considered Genocide
"Today, a United Nations report has concluded that the Sudanese government has not been committing genocide in the country's Darfur region. Tens of thousands of civilians have been killed there over the past two years, and yet according to the all-knowing, all-seeing, all-caring United Nations, genocide would not be an accurate term to describe this. They do, however, "strongly criticize" the role the Sudanese government played in not stopping the killings and rapes of Darfur residents by armed Arab militiamen called Janjaweed."
http://quante.blogspot.com/2005/01/un-darfur-not-considered-genocide.html
But the UN caters to the Arab League who are perfectly content to wipe out Black Muslims and seize Sudan's oil riches so no genocide declaration.
Bolton has fought for increased military forces to combat the genocide and faced UN obfuscation.
Here are the UN provisions that governs once genocide is declared:
http://www.preventgenocide.org/prevent/UNdocs/KofiAnnansActionPlantoPreventGenocide7Apr2004.htm
http://www.preventgenocide.org/law/convention/text.htm#VIII
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